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Brett Larner, Shoko Hikage, and Philip Gelb: Indistancing
by Robert Spencer
Brett Larner is a master of the Japanese guitar-like koto, on which he has recorded a breathtaking series of duets with Anthony Braxton. On this fine disc he is joined by fellow koto player Shoko Hikage, along with Philip Gelb, who wields another traditional Japanese instrument, the flute-like shakuhachi. This is improvised music that is formed ...
Brett Larner/Shoko Hikage/Philip Gelb: INDISTANCING
by AAJ Staff
A friend of mine vehemently despises purely improvised music. She refers to free improv as “that genre that refuses to die.” Furthermore, she has predicted that “free improvisation will ultimately be proven to be the gimmicky and cliché-ridden beast that it is as it dead ends with Western practitioners resorting to non-Western instruments to realize their ...
