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released 22 May 2014
Recorded on August 12th 2013 at Hammersborggata Studio, Oslo, Norway
Recorded and mixed by Thomas Oxem
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
Produced by Ketil Gutvik Paal Nilssen-Love and Lasse Marhaug
Cover by Lasse Marhaug
NUMBER
1. The Women in the Dunes
2. The Dancing Girl of Izu
3. Face of Another
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
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Clamshell Records 2014
www.clamshellrecords.com
NUMBER
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NUMBER
1. ARASHI (STORM)
2. ONDO NO HUNA-UTA (ROWER’S SONG OF ONDO)
3. DORA
4. FUKUSHIMA NO IMA (FUKUSHIMA NOW)
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All music by Akira Sakata (JASRAC). Johan Berthing(STIM). Paal Nilssen - Love(TONO),except nr. 2 by Akira Sakata.
Cover image by Sagaki Keita(Distortion 9),photo by Dagge Lundquist,design by Metaphor.
Recorded at Deccibel Studios,Stockholm by Dagge Lundquist 19th of July 3013.Mixed and mastered by Jonas Kulhammar at Moserobie Studio.
Thanks to Sagaki Keita, Dagge, Jonas, Dora and Konstantin . Trost
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Much like Skata's recent work with Chikamorachi,there are moments on this album when the energy is so furiously intense it feels like it's going to spin out of control and take someone's eye out.
On the aptly named title track(which translates as "Storm"), he delivers wry alto phrases, as though from the corner of his mouth, before digressing into urgent flights of fancy, and finally launching into screaming, red-faced declamation- fuelled by Nilssen-Love's boiling pulse-time drums and the low bounce of Berthling's double bass.For "Ondo No Huna-Uta",Sakata switches to vocals,
a gurgling growl of a priest in the grip of possession by a bellicose demon. By the time he gets to "Fukushima No", he's turned to meek clarinet,offering contrite, almost reluctant phrases like he's apologising for his previous outbursts.
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MBARI MUSICA
2014/02/18
NUMBER
1. seijaku no ichimai/ a piece of silence
2. kousa no odori/ yellow sand blowing from china
3. suiren no saku huruike/ lotus blossom in an old pond
4. yamadera ni kikoyuru koe/ voice from a temple in the deep mountain
5. moe I/ bud I
6. tanbo ni mizu ga hairu/ water coming into rice field in the spring
7. sukiyazukuri no tatazumai/ the peaceful atmosphere of a wood sukiya-style temple
8. hachi to ohisama/ the bee and the sunshine
9. papiruma/ papiruma
10. moe II/ bud II
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all songs by akira sakata & giovanni
di domenico; titles and "moe"
kanji(right)by akira sakata; recorded at
gok sound (tokyo)by yoshiaki kondo, november 2012; mixed and mastered at golden
pony studio (lisbon)by eduardo vinhas, march 2013;cover illustration by okyo
maruyama(1733-1795); design by
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Label:Alchemy Records
Format:CDr, Album
Country:JAPAN
Released:September.30.2012
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Label:Alchemy Records
Format:CDr, Album
Country:Japan
Released:2012
NUMBER
1. Backstroke Star(40:25)
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Label:Ictus Records – ICTUS 162
Format:CDr, Album
Country:US
Released:2012
NUMBER
1:Bridge #1
2:Bridge #2
3:Bridge #3
4:Bridge #4
5:Bridge #5
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Label: King Records Japan
ASIN: B006OQ0DRO
NUMBER
1. Flying Chikamorachi FLYING CHIKAMORACHI
2. After 40 Years AFTER 40 YEARS
3. Five Elephants In A Beetle FIVE ELEPHANTS IN A BEETLE
4. Kaguya-Hime Standing On Her Head KAGUYA-HIME STANDING ON HER HEAD
5. Arekore Shitashi
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ASIN:B0060FQW56
Price:3,150yen(include tax)/3,000yen(w/o tax)
Release Date:2011.12.21
selling agency:ultra-vybe http:www.ultra-vybe.co.jp
Label:SOLID
NUMBER
TRACKS
1. Part I
2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV
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Label:Doubtmusic - dms-142
Format:CD, Album
Released in October 2011
NUMBER
1. Gion Shoja (9:00)
2. The Death of Kiyomori (6:54)
3. The Matter of the Six Paths (5:20)
4. The Assault from the Cliff (10:55)
5. The Death of Atsumori (12:02)
6. The Death of Kiso (3:19)
7. The Battle at Dan-no-ura (The Drowning of the Former Emperor) (9:19)
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Audio CD (September 20, 2011)
Original Release Date: 2011
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Family Vineyard
ASIN: B005DLBL40
NUMBER
Disc1 :
1. Kyoto
2. Hamazaki
Disc2 :
1. Nagoya 1
2. Nagoya 1
3. Nagoya 1
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And that's the story of jazz... Get it? Well, maybe you had to be there when legendary saxophonist Akira Sakata, guitarist Jim O'Rourke and bombast rhythm crew of percussionist Chris Corsano and double bassist Darin Gray (aka Chikamorachi) jumped in the van for a Japanese tour. This two CD set documents their 2008 jaunt -- not the first and far from last -- in blistering detail. Shades of Last Exit, Coltrane's Live in Seattle and even Kousokuya appear here but this quartet has nailed its own unique 'n' volatile tension and symmetry during its past six years together. Until now, their albums have only been available as Japanese imports. This is also the third U.S. release by Sakata on Family Vineyard in the past three years.
Throughout Sakata charges upper registers on alto sax yet still hooks stunning phrases and harmonic themes. O'Rourke's radical, electric guitar blasts are massive volleys of pure sound. All the while, Gray relentlessly anchors the torrent with subterranean grooves, scrapes and slaps while Corsano lays waste to his kit, pounding polyrhythms and tones. Together passages transform from blinding, uncompromised brutality to where Sakata's sweetened melodies dance slowly alone and O'Rourke, also on harmonica, adds lonesome country blues. Over-the- top at times, but hey, that's the story of jazz... If you want Grade- A, blood splattered free music, this is it, but you gotta pay for it.
"... an absolute revelation. Sakata's style bridges classic post-Fire Music Japanese freedoms with a wild mystic/psychedelic edge and the combined backgrounds of his three collaborators push the whole deal into some kind of post-improvised underground psych zone. Sure, there are raging multi-limbed blow-outs that worship at the altar of Church Number 9 where you can barely make out who is doing what but there's a whole deal more, picked guitar and droning strings over weird acid folk meditations that cross Holy Mountain-era Don Cherry with Mark Fry and Yatha Sidhra, the kind of raggedy folk/punk euphoria more associated with Finnish tribes like Paivansade and Rauhan Orkesteri, rich Om-ing Coltrane-isms, spiky No Wave blats that reinvent Rudolph Grey and Von Lmo's vision of free heavy metal..." -- David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
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Label:Family Vineyard - FV77
Format:Vinyl, LP, 33 1/3 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
Country:US
Released:20 Sep 2011
NUMBER
Side A
1. Friendly Pants
2. Miwataseba (Look Around Look?)
Side B
1. Wild Chickens In The Lake M.
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In 2009 Family Vineyard released the first U.S. album by Japanese saxophone legend Akira Sakata in more than 20 years. That critically heralded release, Friendly Pants, was with Sakata's long running rhythm crew Chikamorachi -- drummer Chris Corsano (Paul Flaherty Duo, Bjork, Jandek, etc.) and acoustic bassist Darin Gray (On Fillmore, Grand Ulena, Brise-Glace, etc.). This LP is their follow-up. Recorded during the '09 Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago.
Live at Hungry Brain is an outrageous document by this brawling avant garde trio. Sakata, on alto/clarinet/ vocals, relentlessly pushes Corsano/Gray into the blackout zone where the body drops out and the spirit takes over. On each piece Sakata seemingly levitates higher into a cosmic zone while blasting out gorgeous melodic shapes -- even when he sings. Those who have followed Corsano and Gray's progression through the American rock, noise & free jazz underground will hear this LP as a pinnacle of their talent.
It's an exhilarating, deeply textured and exhausting listen only matched by the outlandish, yet spot-on, cover art by famed Japan illustrator More Rock All Art. Edition of 700 copies. Contains download code.
Recorded by David Zuchowski at The Hungry Brain in Chicago, Nov. 8, 2009 during the 4th annual Umbrella Music Festival.
Released: Sept 20, 2011
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Label: Presspop Music
Format: 12" vinyl record x2 / LIMITED
Jacket: Letterpress Print
JAN: 4560247870287
Release date: 6.30. 2011
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VINYL ONE
A SIDE : Free Radical Sign/ Part 1 (12:35)
B SIDE : Free Radical Sign/ Part 2 (13:33)
VINYL TWO
C SIDE : Illusion from the Far East (18:21)
D SIDE : In a Babble (16:17)
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AN EAST MEETS WEST LEGENDARY AND MIND BLOWING LIVE SHOW OF JAPANESE ALTO SAXOPHONE FREE JAZZ EXTRAORDINAIRE: AKIRA SAKATA, MEMBERS OF THE BAND TORTOISE: JEFF PARKER & JOHN HERNDON, AND NATE MCBRIDE. RECORDED AT THE 2009 UMBRELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL IN CHICAGO, BROUGHT TO YOU AS 12" DOUBLE ANALOG.Every year, cutting edge jazz and avant-garde musicians from all over the world gather together for a few days to participate in the Umbrella Music Festival. The Chicago Reader lavishes praise on the festival, calling it, "the most important jazz festival in Chicago." Its 4th festival in the year 2009 was held from November 5th to 8th where heated improvisation battles were seen one after the other. Among the best of them, the once-in-a-lifetime session between Jeff Parker and John Herndon from the renowned local post-rock band, Tortoise, Nate Mcbride, and the free jazz extraordinaire, Akira Sakata, received special attention. This session knocked out the wits of the Chicago music fans who have an ear for music, and aroused much interest. John McEntire (Soma Electronic Music Studios)who was completely enthralled by the world created by the rare quartet of "Sakata/ Parker/ McBride/ Herndon" worked on the mixing, and thus this album came into existence.
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Daphnia Label DPCD-0005
JZ100831-51
September 15, 2010 release
2,500yen(include tax)
AKIRA SAKATA(as, acl,cl,bells,vo)
KYOKO KURODA(p,vo)
HIROAKI MIZUTANI(bs,vo)
NUMBER
1. Whale is?
2. I'm here!
3. Lake Mendota -dedicated to the late Dr. Stanley I. Dodson-
4. Lonely woman
5. A wolf came to me, said "No!"
6. Siciliano aus der 2 FlÖtensonate
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DATA
Produced by jim O'Rourke
Family Vineyard 2009 USA
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Akira SAkata (as)
Darin Gray (bass)
Chris Corsano(drums)
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Produser Bill Laswell,Akira Sakata,Ronald Shannon Jackson,Robert Musso 1987.Dec.NY.
Akira Sakata(sax,piano etc.)
Bill Laswell(bass)
Ronald ""Shannon""Jackson(drums)
art work Shionro Otake
desighn Takuji Nomoto
2009 Bridge-136
NUMBER
1 Nichimo Satchimo
2 Hieyashi Bushi
3 Wann Kann Ich Sie wiedersehen
4 Hitsujikai No Bansan
5 Kibaminzoku
6 Mooko
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DATA
Original : HERE
NUMBER
1. Cosmic Zoom
2. Grandeur of microcosm under the chaos
3. Psy-Field:A
4. A strange life of Daphnia
5. T4-phage landed on the moon
6. Phase transition of KCI
7 Psy-Field:B
8 Micro-robot breaking into laughter
9 Vicissitudes
10 Voices of "Super strings"
11 Nano Space Odyssey
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Label/Distributor Geneon Entertainment
Original Release Year 2005
Running Time 64 minutes
Data Format DVD Video
Format NTSC Format
Region Code 2 (Japan, Europe, Middle East, and South Africa only)
Subtitles None
Audio Track Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0c
NUMBER
content
1. The name 2. Eye & Brain 3. Mouth, Gut & Anus 4. Heart & Blood 5. Classification 6. Reproduction 7. Sampling & Observation 8. Water fleas of different species 9. Epilogue
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Label : Bridge
Musicians:
Akira Sakata, Semba Kiyohiko, Chino Shuichi, Kawabata Tamio, Fujio Yoshiko, Ichie Hamamoto
NUMBER
SIDE A
1.Hoijaga 2.Baseball love 3.Atami no yoru ha fukete(hakozaki Shinichiro ni sasagu) 4.Senaka made 45 fun 5.Ohyakusyoikki no Shibire GALSIDE B
1. Mona Lisa2.Seichun ha runrun
3.Ogenki desuka
4.Yogisha ni higanbana
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DDCJ-7002 B.J.L.(bounDEE)
MUsicians:Jim O'Rourke,Akira Sakata, Yoshimio
Recorded at Pitinn TOKYO 2006
Edited and Remixed by Jim O'Rourke 2007
Producer: Jim O'Rourke
A&R: Takashi Tannaka(bounDEE/B.J.L)
Recording engineer: Yoichi Tokunaga
Mastering engineer: Atsuo Fujita(Wonder Station)
Coordination: Yoko Yamabe
Cover art painting:Bikky Sunazawa
Design:Takafumi Kitsuda
NUMBER
1.Dancing sea lions2,
2.A vessel on a foggy night
3.HAGYOU~hukuwa-Uchi~Hamabe no Uta
4.The water pipes burst in the cold weather
5.Mother and who All songs composed by Jim 'Rourke,Akira Sakata and Yoshimio except Hamabe-no-Uta.
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