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Satoko Fujii & Natsuki Tamura: In Krakow in November

Read "In Krakow in November" reviewed by Jim Santella


The husband and wife team of Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii continues to make giant strides in bringing avant garde jazz to a wider audience. Their creative adventures recall the excitement wrought by AACM members such as Lester Bowie and Muhal Richard Abrams. Extending their reach around the world, the creative couple forcefully demonstrates what can ...

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Satoko Fujii / Natusuki Tamura: In Krakow in November

Read "In Krakow in November" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Listening to In Krakow In November might make you think that a European influence has tamed the avant approach of pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura. This set, along with two recent releases by Tamura's Gato Libre group--featuring Fujii on accordion--are tinted by their explorations of European folk and classical forms. They also deliver relatively ...

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Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There

Read "When We Were There" reviewed by Jim Santella


Satoko Fujii creates tone poems on When We Were There, which her quartet uses as stepping stones to enter the world of improvised jazz. Each member, an experienced veteran, turns it loose with unexpected surprises at every corner. At the piano, Fujii romps with quasi-rhythms and mood-changing harmonies. The dissonance and consonance of her pieces overlap, ...

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Satoko Fujii Four: When We Were There

Read "When We Were There" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


"Sandstorm, the opening cut on this album, is one of those all-hands-on-deck-and-make-some-noise extravaganzas that seem to be coming back into fashion (check out “3:10 Local on Dan Willis's Velvet Gentlemen (OmniTone,2006), or “Cosmic Tomes For Sleep Walking Lovers Part 1 on the Exploding Star Orchestra's We Are All From Somewhere Else (Thrill Jockey, 2007)). But, though ...

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Live!!

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Scramble; Water; An Unpaved Road; A Brick House; A Submarine Volcano; Fue Taiko; Bennie

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Live in Japan 2004

Label: Polystar
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ninepin; Illusion Suite; Looking out of the Window; An Insane Scheme.

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In The Tank

Label: Libra Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Walking Squid; Flying Jellyfish; Sinking Shrimp; Crowing Crab.

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Undulation

Label: NatSat Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Metal; Water; Wood; The Moon; The Sun; Undulation; Fire; The Earth.

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Angelona

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2006
Track listing: An Alligator in your Wallet; Collage--in the Night; A Poor Sailor; A Journey into the West; Cicada; A Brick House.

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Maru

Label: Bakamo Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Slip-on; Pakonya; Maru; Yattoko Mittoko; Bennie


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