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Michiyo Yagi / Elliott Sharp: Reflexions
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Volda
By Michiyo Yagi
Label: Idiolect
Released: 2010
Track listing: Volda i; Volda ii; Volda iii.
Eyal Hareuveni's Best Releases of 2010 and More
by Eyal Hareuveni
Best new releases (in no particular order): Eple Trio, In The Clearing/In The Cavern (NORCD)Harris Eisenstadt, Woodblock Prints (No Business)Savina Yannatou/Barry Guy, <em>Attikos</em> (Maya)<br /><br />{{Agustí Fernández/Barry Guy/Ramón López, Morning Glory (Maya)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and& Kim Myhr, Stems And Cages (MNJ)Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Eirik Hegdal ...
Paal / Michiyo / Broe: Volda
by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...