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Otomo Yoshihide

The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing

By David Sylvian

Label: Nanoq Records
Released: 2027
Track listing: The Distance Between the Killer and the Killing.

Benjamin Herman: NRFS

by Ludovico Granvassu
May 31, 2026

On Tokyo Sessions (Dox Records), Dutch saxophonist Benjamin Herman captures the restless energy of a series of Tokyo musical encounters he develed into alongside drummer and producer Jimmi Jo Hueting and bassist Thomas Pol--an industrious and vivid encounter between the Dutch and Japanese scenes. Rather than the polished Tokyo familiar to jazz tourists, the ...

Tatsuya Yoshida / Martín Escalante: The Sound of Raspberry

by Mark Corroto
September 4, 2025

This LP may be the revelation of 2025--or a sonic ordeal, depending on your tolerance for noise and your grasp of history. Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida and Mexican saxophonist Martín Escalante met at the perfect moment in December 2023 to record 14 tracks at Tokyo's Bar Aja. The result, The Sound of Raspberry, is the love ...

Keiji Haino / Natsuki Tamura: What Happened There?

by Mark Corroto
February 28, 2025

Unexpected one-off collaborations in creative music have often thrilled and captivated listeners, yielding results as unpredictable as they are unforgettable. Consider Embraced (Pablo Live, 1978) by Cecil Taylor and Mary Lou Williams, the genre-spanning brilliance of Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse!, 1963), or the boundary-pushing sonic landscapes of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts ...

MARANATA: Ugly Euphoria

by Mark Corroto
February 5, 2025

There is the admonition 'run, don't walk' about Ugly Euphoria by the Norwegian noise duo Maranata. With more than a dozen releases to their name, the electronics of Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg's saxophones create a total onslaught of sound. The encouragement to run instead of walking is not to avoid this recording but to get ...

Perpetual Motion

By Satoko Fujii

Label: Ayler Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Perpetual Motion I; Perpetual Motion II; Perpetual Motion III; Perpetual Motion IV.

JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...

The Worlds of Ignaz Schick

by Mark Corroto
March 11, 2024

It may be a bit of hyperbole to call Ignaz Schick a Renaissance man. If, though, we take architect Leon Battista Alberti's (1404-72) definition “a man can do all things if he will," then labeling Schick with that epithet is not such a stretch. The German composer, musician, turntablist, visual artist, label chief, and inventor has ...

Sons d'Hiver 2024

by Luciano Rossetti
February 24, 2024