Results for "Libra Records"

Hazuki

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Invisible; Quarantine; Clusters; Hoffen; Beginning; Ernesto; Expanding; Twenty-Four Degrees.

Beyond

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Molecular; Proliferation; Todokanai Tegami; Beyond; On the Road; Mizube; Ame No Ato; Mobius Loop; Spectrum.

Keshin

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Busy Day; Donten; Dreamer; Three Scenes; Keshin; Drop; Sparrow Dance.

Koki Solo

By Natsuki Tamura

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sekirei; Karugamo; Kawau; Bora; Sagi; Kamome; Chidori; Isoshigi.

Natsuki Tamura: Koki Solo

by Karl Ackermann
July 17, 2021

Birthday celebrations have found their way into jazz recordings since the Louis Armstrong era. Illinois Jacquet, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, and Jaco Pastorius have directly baked the cake into album titles while other artists have taken an indirect approach to celebrating. Satoko Fujii broke the mold in 2019 with a new release each month in commemoration ...

Sekirei

July 22, 2021

Album: Koki Solo
By Natsuki Tamura
Label: Libra Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 6:15

Natsuki Tamura: Koki Solo

by Dan McClenaghan
June 15, 2021

In 1983, pop vocalist Cyndi Lauper said, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun." She probably still sings it. Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura has always wanted to have fun, too, playing--in his early days--jazz standards in Japanese clubs where hostesses in negligees sat at stage-side tables drinking room temperature tea masquerading as whiskey at the expense of ardent ...

Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Keshin

by Dan McClenaghan
April 4, 2021

The Covid-19 virus tightened its grip on the world in 2020, bringing the old “one door closes, another one opens" trope to mind. The door into touring, to presenting music in live venues, slammed shut. But the extra time afforded by the lack of live music opportunities let the recording studio doors swing wide open--especially in ...

Satoko Fujii / Taiko Saito: Beyond

by John Sharpe
March 28, 2021

Right from the off, the confluence of grainy flicker and humming drone signals that Beyond won't be like other vibraphone/piano hook ups. Under the moniker Futari, Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and her Berlin-based countrywoman vibraphonist Taiko Saito don't so much take the road less traveled as revel in the thickets, brambles and unexpected clearings discovered when ...

Satoko Fujii: Hazuki

by Dan McClenaghan
March 13, 2021

Going back to the early 1960s, consider Brian Wilson, of Beach Boys fame. And consider his song “In My Room" (with lyrics co-written with Gary Usher), issued as a single and included in the 1963 album Surfer Girl (Capitol Records). It is a sound of loneliness, a poem to a sanctuary, a place that makes it ...