Results for "Libra Records"

Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Muku

by Hrayr Attarian
November 30, 2012

The restlessly innovative husband and wife team of trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and pianist Satoko Fujii have produced some of the most intriguing and invigorating music to come out of Japan. Although rooted in the jazz idiom, their explorations are on universal themes, drawing upon a variety of inspirations. Their work is primarily improvised, but not in ...

Gato Libre: Forever

by Hrayr Attarian
November 29, 2012

Innovative trumpeter Natsuki Tamura is a creative artist with a wide repertoire that draws as much from modern improvised music as it does jazz and world folk heritages. Often a key collaborator in wife/pianist Satoko Fujii' inimitable ensembles, he emerges as a leader of the unique quartet Gato Libre on its fifth release, Forever.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...