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001111 PSF PSFD-156 CD £13.99 Great duo CD (reissue of a privately distributed CD-R) featuring a live show from Tokyo University Of Fine Arts on 11 November 2001from avant guitarist and improviser Kazuo Imai (whose How Will We Change CD has long been one of the hidden jewels in the PSF back catalogue) and pianist Shuichi Chino. Chino has done a lot of theatre and soundtrack work, and has recently collaborated with Butch Morris. He is the most consistently audible player here but the force of Imai’s acoustic guitar conceptions is utterly magnetic, as he teases fluttering, inchoate tone-forms from his guitar in a way that beautifully shadows Chino’s spare note-clusters. |
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Far And Wee PSF PSFD-155 CD £13.99 Second all-solo outing for liberated Japanese guitarist Kazuo Imai, the long-awaited follow-up to his thumping How Will We Change? Here the action is all derived from a fantastically manipulated nylon string guitar, using techniques that are way outside the usual post-Derek Bailey vectors. A stunning, singular document from this key thinker. |
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Blood Doubt Music DMF-124/125 CD + DVD £20.99 Brand new form-destroying trio moves from guitarist Kazuo Imai, a member of East Bionic Symphonia, on/off collaborator and part-time member of Taj Mahal Travellers and a student of the late Japanese ‘noise’ guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi. This is the debut recording for his new trio featuring Imai on electric guitar, Ito Atsuhiro on optron and Suzuki Manabu on electronics. Imai’s concept was to combine references to the outer melodic forms of various standards and traditionals while exploding the interpretation by the use of out-of-control electronics and fuzz. The results are pretty dazzling, combining the bloodied jazz/noise feel of prime Takayanagi with enveloping walls of distortion, weird low-level almost Music Improvisation Company-styled insect chatter and disembowelled readings of material by Annette Peacock, Bach, Lee Konitz, Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk and more. The DVD helps to get a grip on the physical aspect of the music, with a full bonus session filmed live in the studio. Comes packaged in a hard card shrunken gatefold sleeve. Recommended. |
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Undecided PSF PSFD-153 CD £13.99 A compilation that culls tracks from a series of ‘lecture concerts' that took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus, Tokyo. Kicks off with a fantastically dense hurdy-gurdy drone from Keiji Haino and also features tracks from guitarist Kazuo Imai, pianist Junichiro Okuchi, shamisen master Michihiro Sato, turntablist Otomo Yoshihide and saxophonist Masayoshi Urabe. |
