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Good Morning / Good Night
Well, 'Holy Good Night!' seems an appropriate reaction when faced with a substantial double-disc offering from the 'holy triumvirate' of Japanese reduced improvisation and minimal electronics, ie Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko Matsubara and Toshimaru Nakamura. In August 2003, they quietly entered a studio in Tokyo and laid down the basis for this music in only two days. The following month saw a final mixdown issue from their hands. Amazingly, the roof did not fall in on the musical world as a result.…
Filament 2
Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo, July 1998. Mixed at GOK Sound, Tokyo, March 1999. Mastered at Transonic Studio, Tokyo, March 1999.
Out to lunch
2nd works is the covers of famous Eric Dolphy's Out To lunch! otomo's post-modern interpretation of Dolphy's compositions by Orchestra is very beautiful and intensive. Gazzelloni is translated to hardcore punk version, or Straight Up And Down ? Will Be Back is translated to improvisation that is swift to respond each other and most beautiful onkyo sound. This is the marvels of jazz! otomo Yoshihide (guitar, conduct on 4), Axel Doerner (trumpet, slide trumpet), Aoki Taisei (trombone, bamboo flute…
Guitar solo
Guitar solo performed by otomo Yoshihide. Recorded on12th Octber 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo. First otomo's guitar solo work. This work include beautiful acoustic pieces and intense electric pieces, recorded on 12th Oct, 2004 at Shinjuku Pit Inn and new studio recording piece.
Thumb
Live recording, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France May 29, 2001.Thanks to Instants Chavirés, Musique Action Festival, Etienne Foyer, Soizig Le Calvez and Hugh X Vorp.
s/t
ErstLive 005 is from the quartet of Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide, the centerpiece show of AMPLIFY 2004: addition, the "four hour quartet". ErstLive 005 contains three individually packaged slimline CDs in a slipcase with original artwork by Keith Rowe, which wraps around the entire box, front, side, and back, as well as liner notes from all four musicians and numerous pictures from Yuko Zama. ErstLive 005 documents only the second performance of this quartet, a…
Time Travel
Recorded on October 17th, 2002 at Gok Sound, Tokyo.
multiple Otomo
"On Monochrome Otomo presents 18 pieces that illustrate the entire range of his solo work from pieces constructed entirely of feedback, static and randomly generated radio noise, to sine wave experiments that bring to mind the humming of the solar wind as it wafts through intergalactic space. There are also rhythmic bursts of feedback and percussion that are almost danceable and subtle Zen like meditations full of slow sustained notes that fill the air with otherworldly overtones. The Mult…