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Mototeru Takagi

Derek Bailey Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness

by John Sharpe
December 1, 2024

English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he encountered many of the major figures on the country's free improvisation scene, as releases such as Duo ...

Derek Bailey, Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness

by Mark Corroto
July 15, 2024

Guitarist Derek Bailey never compromised his approach to music, but was he influenced and his sound affected by set, setting, and playing partners? Those new to Bailey's working method may posit his approach was inflexible and unaccommodating, while long-time listeners can identify how a playing partner can affect the guitarist's sound. With the force ...

Seishin - Seido

By Mototeru Takagi

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Seishin - Seido; Natural Sound; Remember; Ethyopia; Step by Step.

Mototeru Takagi / Kim Dae Hwan / Choi Sun Bae: Seishin - Seido

by John Sharpe
May 8, 2023

Seishin-Seido represents another heads up on the depth of the Japanese free jazz community from the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint as part of its partnership with Chap Chap Records. They raid the archives for a live date from 1995 in the southern city of Hofu, which actually unites two Korean musicians, trumpeter Choi Sun Bae and percussionist ...

Live at FarOut, Atsugi 1987

By Derek Bailey

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Duo l; Duo ll; Duo lll; Duo lV.

Live At Little John Yokohama 1999

By Mototeru Takagi

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Yokohama Iseazaki Town; Yokohama Yamashita Town; Yokohama Yamate Town.

Mototeru Takagi: Live At Little John Yokohama 1999

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2021

Four Japanese improvisers gather for an absorbing summit meeting in the Tokyo port city on Live At Little John Yokohama 1999. Probably the best known of the quartet will be tenor saxophonist Mototeru Takagi, who appeared on drummer Milford Graves' underground classic Meditations Among Us (Kitty, 1977) some 22 years earlier. There is a whiff of ...

Derek Bailey / Mototeru Takagi: Live at FarOut, Atsugi 1987

by John Sharpe
May 4, 2021

Thanks to its licensing deal with the Japanese Chap Chap label, the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint continues its exposure of unexpected gems from the Japanese free scene of the 1980s and 1990s. While many feature solely native improvisers, others pair local performers with Western visitors. Live At Far Out, Atsugi 1987 falls into the ...

Paul Rutherford: The Conscience

by Nicola Negri
February 16, 2018

La lituana NoBusiness Records è tra le etichette più significative nel panorama free jazz attuale, specializzata nella diffusione di registrazioni d'archivio, solitamente live, oltre che nella promozione di nuovi progetti. All'inizio del 2017, NoBusiness ha inaugurato una collaborazione con un'altra etichetta che condivide le stesse strategie, la giapponese Chap Chap Records. Attiva fin dai primi anni ...