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Reflexions

Label: Idiolect
Released: 2011
Track listing: Darkly Dreaming; Tempest; Refractions; The Candy Factor; Journey; Shortwave; Folklore; The Jumblies; Dreaming Darkly.

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Michiyo Yagi / Elliott Sharp: Reflexions

Read "Reflexions" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 19, 2011

Tokyo-based koto player Michiyo Yagi and New York-based guitarist/composer Elliott Sharp have been collaborating since the mid-nineties. Yagi, during her tenure as visiting professor of music at Wesleyan University, was looking for role models who transform the conventions of their instruments, experimenting with sound and musical forms. Sharp was one of these mavericks that Yagi was ...

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Volda

By Michiyo Yagi

Label: Idiolect
Released: 2010
Track listing: Volda i; Volda ii; Volda iii.

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Paal / Michiyo / Broe: Volda

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 1, 2010

The sophomore release of the trio featuring German reed legend Peter Brötzmann, Japanese koto iconoclast Michiyo Yagi and Norwegian master drummer Paal Nilssen-Love--following Head On (Idiolect, 2008)--is a remarkable demonstration of how energy and power transform into spiritual catharsis. It's easy to understand why this trio was named the Spirit & Power Trio during its Japanese ...

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Head On

By Peter Brötzmann

Label: Idiolect
Released: 2008
Track listing: Red kites, Head On; The Man In The Raincoat.

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Brotzmann/Michiyo Yagi/Nilseen-Love: Head On

Read "Head On" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 13, 2008

A collaboration between the loud saxophones of German legend Peter Brotzmann, Japanese koto master Michiyo Yagi and great Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love may not sound an obvious to those who still consider the ancient stringed koto to be an exotic instrument. The short YouTube clip of Yagi playing with this trio at the 2006 Kongsberg Jazz ...