Tetuzi Akiyama Jason Kahn
Till We Meet Again CD 1654 Tetuzi Akiyama - ac g cover: Jason Kahn released 25.8.05 
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«An excellent recording.» «Promessa di un incontro, quello già avvenuto tra i due improvvisatori si rivela di essere una piccola meraviglia sonora di arte orientale. Magica e spiazzante.» «…Kahn creates a palpable wall of sound from what sound like bells and gongs; against this discourse, Akiyama’s clipped, slurred, and mangled slide figures are compelling. In fact, on many of the duo pieces Kahn uses his most conventionally percussive sounds in quite some time, but does so in thoroughly unpredictable manners.» «Akiyama's personal take on a peculiar sort of atonal blues goes through ample silent spaces interrupted by the sound of acoustic guitar strings that are loosened, scratched and pinched until there is no more trace of a conventional - "western", if you will - playing style. Kahn mostly applies his caressing delicacy to responsive cymbals, bringing out the essential harmonic resonance we had already experienced in his interpretations of Taku Sugimoto's scores in "Music for cymbal" on his own Cut label.» «A beautiful album, let's hope the both of them will meet again.» «With Akiyama the guitar sounds like a guitar and he plays his own interpretation of the blues. Kahn subtle additions of percussion and analogue synthesizer are more supportive, and don't seem to take their own role, but together it's works really well.» «…Die nachdenkliche, geduldige, fast andächtige Art, die Zeit nahezu zum Stillstand zu bringen, versetzt einen in einen meditativen, melancholisch getönten Zustand träumerischer Gedanken, die sich mehr und mehr entleeren und halbschläfriger Bilderfluchten, die weiß in weiß verblassen.»
in the monthly charts 10.05, loop |
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