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Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of Japan's most infamous duo, the Ruins, engages the fiery pyrotechnics of free jazz pianist and composer Satoko Fujii on Erans. Far from a free-for-all freakout, this is a highly stylized series of 12 compositions that showcases the duo's near symbiotic relationship to tempo, dynamic, and chromatic engagement. In some senses, these pieces feel more like exercises, because they are played with such precision, which is both the album's strong point, and its weakness. There is a beautiful linguistic interplay here, one that is delicately shrouded in tone and explosive mechanisms, but these are overshadowed by sheer propulsion. From the manic shifts in tempo to the stylistically charged arpeggiattic studies, the listener gets lost in the fiery exchange of languages that exist between these shimmering, skittering dances of not one, but two percussionists, elementally creating and destroying intricately created tonal architectures over and over again for an hour. Certainly it is enthralling, but it is also exhausting to witness and pay close attention to at one stretch. There is an awful lot going on here, more than the ear can accommodate on one or two listens to be sure, let alone by taking the entire thing in one sitting.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Satoko Fujii, Composer, MainArtist - Tatsuya Yoshida, Composer, MainArtist - Tzadik, MusicPublisher
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
Album review
Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of Japan's most infamous duo, the Ruins, engages the fiery pyrotechnics of free jazz pianist and composer Satoko Fujii on Erans. Far from a free-for-all freakout, this is a highly stylized series of 12 compositions that showcases the duo's near symbiotic relationship to tempo, dynamic, and chromatic engagement. In some senses, these pieces feel more like exercises, because they are played with such precision, which is both the album's strong point, and its weakness. There is a beautiful linguistic interplay here, one that is delicately shrouded in tone and explosive mechanisms, but these are overshadowed by sheer propulsion. From the manic shifts in tempo to the stylistically charged arpeggiattic studies, the listener gets lost in the fiery exchange of languages that exist between these shimmering, skittering dances of not one, but two percussionists, elementally creating and destroying intricately created tonal architectures over and over again for an hour. Certainly it is enthralling, but it is also exhausting to witness and pay close attention to at one stretch. There is an awful lot going on here, more than the ear can accommodate on one or two listens to be sure, let alone by taking the entire thing in one sitting.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:24
- Main artists: Tatsuya Yoshida Satoko Fujii
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Tzadik
- Genre: World
2004 Tzadik 2004 Tzadik
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