Sachiko M - Salon De Sachiko

This CD marks the awaited return of a Japanese improvised music scene's great protagonist, considering that her previous solo work (“Bar Sachiko”) goes back to three and a half years ago.
This time Sachiko uses exclusively two oscillators, to create something quite different from the past: not more sine wave tones, but subtle beeps, frequently associated with large zones of silence.
With "Salon de Sachiko" she refines her artistic skills, distinguished by naturalness and beautiful sound synthesis.

Label: Ftarri/Hitorri
Cat. #: hitorri-111
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Untitled (60:00)

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Previous releases:

• Un (1998, Meme, MEME 011) (w/ Toshimaru Nakamura)
• Debris (1999, F.M.N Sound Factory, FSC-016)
• Sine Wave Solo (1999, Amoebic, AMO SAT 01)
• Four Focuses (1999, Amoebic, AMO SAT 02) (w/ Martin Tétreault, Yasuhiro Otani, Otomo Yoshihide)
• Detect (2000, Antifrost, afro 2007)
• Do (2001, Erstwhile Records, erstwhile 013) (w/ Toshimaru Nakamura)
• Artefact (2002, Dorobo, DLE7) (w/ Philip Samartzis)
• In Case Of Fire Take The Stairs (2002, Improvised Music From Japan, IMJ-503) (w/ Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann)
• Thumb (2002, Grob, GROB.432) (w/ Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Otomo Yoshihide, Robbie Avenaim)
• Absinth (2002, Grob, GROB.435) (w/ Werner Dafeldecker, Franz Hautzinger, John Tilbury)
• Untitled (2002, --, --) (w/ Sean Meehan)
• Les Hautes Solitudes - A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginary Soundtrack (2002, Out One Disc, DDCO-1003) (w/ Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto)
• 1:2 (2003, A Bruit Secret, ABS 09)
• Derive (2003, Noise Asia, NAIM15CD)
• Bar Sachiko (2004, Improvised Music From Japan, IMJ-517)
• Good Morning Good Night (2004, Erstwhile Records, erstwhile 042-2) (w/ Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide)
• Untitled (2004, Erstwhile Records, ErstLive 004) (w/ Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Peter Rehberg)
• Concert In St. Louis (2004, Grob, GROB.656) (w/ Gene Coleman, Franz Hautzinger)
  
• Untitled (2005, Erstwhile Records, ErstLive 005) (w/ Keith Rowe, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide)

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Subsequent releases:

• Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (2008, Balloon & Needle, bnn020) (w/ Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Otomo Yoshihide)
• Contact (2009, Erstwhile, erstwhile 054-2) (w/ Keith Rowe)
• I'm Here ..Departures.. (2009, 2-:+/Studio Parabolica, AP013)
• Donaueschinger Musiktage 2005: Allurements Of The Ellipsoid (2010, Neos, NEOS 41006/07) (w/ Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dörner, Martin Brandlmayr)
• Snow, Silence, Partially Sunny (2012, Commmons, RZC1 59246) (w/ Ryuichi Sakamoto)
• Quintet/Sextet (2013, Otoroku, ROKU009) (w/ Otomo Yoshihide, Evan Parker, Tony Marsh, John Edwards, John Butcher)
• 17.2.14 (2016, Otoroku, DS039 (w/ Eddie Prévost)(

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Appears on:

• Leonid Soybelman - With Russia From Love (2001, No Man's Land, nml 0128)
• Poire_Z - + (2002, Erstwhile Records, erstwhile 022)
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble - Dreams (2002, Tzadik, 7238)
• Cosmos - Tears (2002, Erstwhile Records, erstwhile 024)
• Intonarumori Orchestra - Intonarumori Orchestra (2004, Off Site, OFF-SITE 004)
• Otomo Yoshihide - Core Anode (2008, Ftarri, meenna-332)
• Gaspar Claus - Jo Ha Kyū (2013, Modest Launch, ML20130222)
  

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Tracks appear on:

• VV.AA. - Improvised Music From Japan (2001, Improvised Music From Japan, IMJ-10CD) track: 13072001
• VV.AA. - Meeting At Off Site Vol. 1 (2002, Reset / Improvised Music From Japan, reset003 / IMJ-501) track: Untitled
• VV.AA. - Meeting At Off Site Vol. 3 (2003, Improvised Music From Japan, IMJ-515) track: July 5, 2002
• VV.AA. - Japanese Avant-Garde (2002, Sub Rosa, SR 202 CD) track: 2808200
• VV.AA. - Haunted Weather. Music, Silence and Memory (2004, Staubgold, staubgold 52) track: Filament 2-5
• Intonarumori Orchestra - Intonarumori Orchestra (2004, Off Site, OFF-SITE 004) track: Intonarumori
• VV.AA. - Void / Full (2004, Antifrost, afro2019 / 2020) track: 33
• VV.AA. - Dolmen. Contemporary Art And Sound Series 2000 / 2006 (2008, Dolmen Associates) track: Enjoy the Ride / Lötschberg Tunnel / 2005 (w/ eRikm, Charlotte Hug, Richard Jean, Hans Koch, Tomas Korber, Lionel Marchetti, Norbert Möslang, Günter Müller, Toshimaru Nakamura, Keith Rowe)
  

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As Filament:

• Filament 1 (1998, Extreme, XCD 045)
• Filament 2: Secret Recordings (1999, For 4 Ears, CD 1031) (w/ Günter Muller)
• 29092000 (2001, Amoebic, AMO SAT 03)
• BOX (2004, F.M.N Sound Factory, FMC-030~034)

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Links:
Sachiko M
Hitorri

Naoshima / Takeda / Kawasaki / Takeuchi / Koike / Kawaguchi / Totsuka - Septet

"This CD is a document of a studio-recorded improvisation session. All seven musicians play extremely quietly. (They would probably play this way in a live performance, too.) So quietly that almost all of the "played" sounds are softer than the sounds resulting from the physical action of playing music--the touching of instruments, the rustling of clothes, etc. So quietly that outside noises which faintly penetrate into the sealed recording studio can be heard over the music.
In this music it's extremely unclear what is going on. It's as if someone had secretly recorded the sound of office work. Sounds occur, but the musicians themselves may not be completely sure whether they were produced intentionally.
This really is a curious document. It isn't the kind of playing that brings out the atmosphere of the performance venue. The focus here is on the softness, or near-inaudibility, of the sound.
Very soft sounds do not linger, physically or psychologically. They contain too little energy to reverberate, and leave a weak impression because they tend not to remain in the listener's memory. This is the unique quality of quiet sound. So perhaps this is an attempt to look closely at quiet sound as an element of music or performance. It is certainly not the kind of music that attempts to elicit subtle listening--if it were, the background noises would not be offhandedly left in. Interestingly, though, the character of the music slowly emerges as we listen. And gradually we find that we are focusing on a fresh, new form of improvisation."

(From the liner notes by Toshiya Tsunoda)

Takefumi Naoshima: mixing board
Hirozumi Takeda: guitar
Utah Kawasaki: guitar
Mitsuteru Takeuchi: flute
Toshihiro Koike: trombone
Takahiro Kawaguchi: remodeled counters
Yasuo Totsuka: compressor

Label: Ftarri / Meenna
Cat. #: meenna-333
Format: CD
Release date: 2007

Tracklisting:
01 - Untitled (47:48)
02 - Untitled (19:48)

Links:
Takefumi Naoshima
Utah Kawasaki
Ftarri