Results for "Libra Records"

Gato Libre: Forever

by Dan McClenaghan
September 15, 2012

The team of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura produces a lot of music. More often than not, it's Fujii in the leader's chair, in one of her numerous big bands, quartets, trios or in duo outings with Tamura. By normal standards--that is, not in comparison with Fujii--Tamura's output as a leader could be considered ...

Natsuki Tamura / Satoko Fujii: Muku

by Dan McClenaghan
August 12, 2012

Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii--partners in marriage and music--have an extensive discography together, spanning a broad array of ensemble configurations, from Fujii's calamitous big bands to Tamura's European folk song-flavored Gato Libre discs, and from Fujii's propulsive, window-rattling art rock quartets to Tamura's blistering electric quartet of Hada Hada (Libra Records, 2003). But it ...

Rafale

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Noise Chopin; Anagramme; The Thaw; Marie-T; Polly; Blast.

Rafale

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Noise Chopin; Anagramme; The Thaw; Marie-T; Polly; Blast.

Watershed

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Thaw; Whitewater; Takeda no Komoriuta; Soranbushi; Cascade; Limestone Cave; Hanagasa Ondo; Estuary.

Rafaele

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Noise Chopin; Anagramme; The Thaw; Marie-T; Polly; Blast.

ETO

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: The North Wind And The Sun; Eto Suite: Overture; Rat; Ox; Tiger; Hare; Dragon; Snake; Horse; Ram; Monkey; Rooster; Dog; Boar; Epilogue; Pressure Cooker; Stroll.

Satoko Fujii Min-Yoh Ensemble: Watershed

by Dave Wayne
December 24, 2011

Min-Yoh is the newest star in pianist Satoko Fujii's growing constellation of amazing improvising groups. While the presence of her partner in music and life, virtuoso trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, is a given, Fujii's musical interactions with a seemingly endless array of top-drawer improvisers from all over the world are almost as intimate. The pair gives the ...

Kaze: Rafaele

by Dave Wayne
December 13, 2011

Trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii are as furiously creative as they are prolific. These days, they release new music in batches of three or four CDs, each with different personnel, though often with some compositional overlap--completely forgivable, since the same material sounds completely different (often rewardingly so) in the hands of a different ensemble. ...

Satoko Fujii: Rafale

by Dan McClenaghan
August 10, 2011

It's no easy task keeping track of the bands under the baton of pianist Satoko Fujii. The prolific avant-garde artist from Japan leads numerous ensembles, including four distinct big bands and multiple quartets and trios, in addition to co-leading duo outings with her husband, trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, very notably on the marvelous Chun (Libra, 2008). She ...