[porkmarras]

 

The Wire magazine calls Otomo Yoshihide's music "loud and physically uncomfortable for the listener in a way that few performers anywhere could make so pleasurable."

Like John Zorn, Japan's Otomo Yoshihide needs no introduction if you are into avant-garde jazz. An experimental musician, a turntablist and guitarist, it is possible that Yoshihide has played every kind of music imaginable - from sounds to underground to free jazz.

Playing with his New Jazz Ensemble (saxophonist Charles Kenta Tsugami, bassist Hiroaki Mizutani and drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigaki are recognised names in Japanese jazz) at the Festival d'Autunno in Italy, Yoshihide programmed his set almost like a "greatest-hits" package. The show opens on an inviting note: Song For Che could almost pass for a by the Liberation Music Orchestra before getting "noizier" by the minute.

 

The slowed-down Lost In The Shadows is almost a mood piece before Flutter brings free jazz right into the fore. Next is a cover of Eric Dolphy's Something Sweet, Something Tender. (Dolphy gets another plug - Straight Up And Down - later in the show.) Then there is that curve ball - Jim O'Rourke's Eureka, which seems to be a favourite with the band - this has appeared several times on their play and recording lists. It starts off being exquisite and precious before getting the free form treatment.
Disc 1
01 Song For Che-Reducing Agent 13:34
02 Lost In The Shadows 12:28
03 Flutter 18:06

04 Something Sweet, Something Tender 12:50

 

Disc 2
01 Eureka 13:14
02 Straight Up And Down-Mayonaka No Shizuka... 17:15
03 Gazzelloni 06:09

[Iain]

Fantastic...thanks!

[Iain]

Bollocks. It won't let me download it because I am on a network. Fuckers.

[porkmarras]

I'll download it later when i'm at home and pm it to you,if you like.Unless some kind soul out there would do it earlier than that.

[compulsive diarrhea, jico]

thanks.

here,
http://www52.megaupload.com/files/Otomo%20Yoshihide's%20New%20Jazz%20Ensemble%20-%20Live%20In%20Italy%202006.rar


say thank you jico.

[Iain]

Thankyou jico...It works for me now. Not sure why because it went straight to that screen where you enter the 3 letter code which it did before. It was after that that it went funny. What did you do jico?

[porkmarras]

Well done Jico.

[compulsive diarrhea, jico]

here,

http://www52.megaupload.com/files/Otomo%20Yoshihide's%20New%20Jazz%20Ensemble%20-%20Live%20In%20Italy%202006.rar

[Everyneurotic]

i'm seeing him in two months!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gulasch Noir]

I'm seeing him (and a few others like Martin Brandlmayr) hopefully on Tuesday.
http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/schedule.html
27 (Sat.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Jazzatelier, Ulrichsberg, Austria.

28 (Sun.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt, Belgium.

29 (Mon.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Public Space With a Roof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

30 (Tue.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria.

31 (Wed.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Wist, Graz, Austria.
February

1 (Thu.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland.

3 (Sat.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Ear We Are Festival, Biel, Switzerland.

4 (Sun.)
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable, guitar), Axel Dörner (trumpet), Sachiko M (sinewaves), and Martin Brandlmayr (drums, percussion) at Club W 71, Weikersheim, Germany.

18 (Sun.)
Kahimi Karie, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O'Rourke, Rhodri Davies, Sachiko M, and Akira Sotoyama at Hitomi Memorial Hall, Showa Women's University, Tokyo. 5,800 yen. For more information, contact Disk Garage (tel: 03-5436-9600)

25 (Sun., 6:00 p.m.)
Kahimi Karie, Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O'Rourke, Rhodri Davies, Sachiko M, and Akira Sotoyama at Hardy Hall, Doshisha University, Kyoto. 5,800 yen. For more information, contact Yumebanchi (tel: 06-6341-3525).

[Glice]

Didn't spot this thread earlier, thanks Porkie/ Jico. He's utterly wonderful, is Mr Yoshihide.