Keith Rowe, Taku Sugimoto, Guenter Mueller – THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN (Erstwhile, 1999?) Keith Rowe / Gnter Mller / Taku Sugimoto: The World Turned Upside Down Erstwhile 005 Total time: 56:55 1. phase two (34:44) 2. phase one (22:11) The world: Keith Rowe tabletop guitar, electronics Gnter Mller electronics, selected drums Taku Sugimoto guitar [...]
Taku Sugimoto and Kevin Drumm – Den (Sonoris, SON-13) (CD) 2000 Taku Sugimoto: guitar Kevin Drumm: guitar, electronics An album that documents the concert by two guitarists (of which one also plays electronics) held on April 5th, 2000 in Japan. Sugimoto is known for his improv style in which silence plays an extensive role. He [...]
Taku Sugimoto – OPPOSITE (HatArt: HatNoir, 1998) Mirrors (1:08) Bells of … (4:05) Flagments of Happiness (1:35) Spoon River 1 (3:57) Spring (3:22) Midnoon (1:44) Opposite (0:46) Subtle (1:37) Birds of Afternoon (1:32) Stained Glass Windows (1:21) A Narrow Path (1:32) Transylvania (2:34) Paris (1:31) Spoon River II (3:17) Monad (8:49) Treading (2:22) Pale Light [...]
John Cage – Ryoanji Download (members) A beautiful, if chilling album of eerily atonal woodwind phrases and sparse percussive punctuation, the closest to traditional Japanese music I have heard of Cage recordings. an hour long track of indeterminate No Theater, like the proverbial moon lit night in Asian ghost stories where the borders between this [...]
Luigi Nono: IlPrometeo The late-period Luigi Nono. I’ve chosen Ensemble Modern’s (out-of-print) performance of Prometeo, a 1984 opera and one of Nono’s most famous works. I leave the commentary to people who know what they’re talking about (like Stefan Beyst), but I will say this is one my favorite 20th century operas. Encoded in 320kbps [...]
La Monte Young – Just Stompin’: Live at the Kitchen Credited to La Monte Young and the Forever Bad Blues Band, Just Stompin’ is a 1993, 2-CD composition of Young’s epic minimalism, this time drawing from the blues. It is performed live by a quartet: guitar, bass, drums and synthesizer. The album is out of [...]
