Kaoru Abe

atsonicpark · 06.18.2010, 11:20 AM

Okay, I've had JAZZ BED for years and loved it but I've decided today to delve deeper into this man's work. Listening to OVERHANG PARTY right now and it's absolutely mindblowing. I'd heard his later work wasn't as good but I think it's absolutely brilliant.

http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/...kaoru-abe.html <--- every album he's ever been apart of..

who else is a fan?

pokkeherrie · 06.18.2010, 11:28 AM

Wouldn't call myself a fan, but I like the stuff I've heard from him.

Didn't know he had an album called Overhang Party, for a second I thought you were talking about the band and wondered how the hell they could be related since Abe has been dead for 30 years or so.

atsonicpark · 06.18.2010, 11:30 AM

Actually I think the album is called Senzei, but the "group" is Kaoru Abe and Sabu Toyozumi as Overhang Party.. I think.

pokkeherrie · 06.18.2010, 11:40 AM

It's a double LP according to discogs, with one record being called Overhang Party and the other one Senzei.
http://www.discogs.com/release/843923

scott v · 06.18.2010, 02:14 PM

Abe rules! probably the best free sax player to come out of Japan... worked with Masayuki Takayanagi argueably the best free improv/nosie guitarist from Japan (yeah probably better than Haino, Mayuzumi...etc etc)

westernquinoxrox · 06.18.2010, 02:19 PM

fuq that noize
merzbow is the only jax
kaz
jaz

Toilet & Bowels · 06.18.2010, 07:41 PM

the only abe or takayanagi i've heard are the two live records they did together, Mass Projection and Gradually Projection. Both are really good, but also a demanding listen.

The Earl Of Slander · 06.19.2010, 06:45 AM

I love love love Abe. I don't really know a huge amount of his stuff, but of what I've heard it's his solo records that really astound me, especially Winter 1972 (which you should get ASAP if you don't have it). Something about that unbelievable tone just screaming out alone in a shitty concrete club, where you can literally hear him playing with him self via the reverberations in the room, in these just so totally solitary extended solo improvisations... it stops me in my tracks every time I hear it. One of my all time favourite (and most underrated) 'out' jazz musicians.

Toilet & Bowels · 06.19.2010, 08:23 AM

downloading it now

batreleaser · 06.19.2010, 10:29 AM

He's great.

scott v · 06.21.2010, 02:33 PM

the essential merzbow to me is Rainbow Electronics II and Batzoutui w/ Memorial Gadgets, i can skip alot of the rest he's awesomely prolific and impossible to keep up with.

The Earl Of Slander · 06.22.2010, 10:30 AM

If anyone's in the mood, I'm doing a jazz set on my radio show tonight at 11 BST, with a heavy focus on quite 'out' stuff, and I'll be playing a bit of Abe. Listen in! (You can also tune in via Itunes, sometimes more reliably)

atsonicpark · 06.22.2010, 03:47 PM

thanks

06.18.2010, 11:20 AM	#1
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Okay, I've had JAZZ BED for years and loved it but I've decided today to delve deeper into this man's work. Listening to OVERHANG PARTY right now and it's absolutely mindblowing. I'd heard his later work wasn't as good but I think it's absolutely brilliant. http://experimentaletc.blogspot.com/...kaoru-abe.html <--- every album he's ever been apart of.. who else is a fan?
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06.18.2010, 11:28 AM	#2
pokkeherrie invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,289	Wouldn't call myself a fan, but I like the stuff I've heard from him. Didn't know he had an album called Overhang Party, for a second I thought you were talking about the band and wondered how the hell they could be related since Abe has been dead for 30 years or so.
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06.18.2010, 11:30 AM	#3
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Actually I think the album is called Senzei, but the "group" is Kaoru Abe and Sabu Toyozumi as Overhang Party.. I think.
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06.18.2010, 11:40 AM	#4
pokkeherrie invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,289	It's a double LP according to discogs, with one record being called Overhang Party and the other one Senzei. http://www.discogs.com/release/843923
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06.18.2010, 02:14 PM	#5
scott v expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,484	Abe rules! probably the best free sax player to come out of Japan... worked with Masayuki Takayanagi argueably the best free improv/nosie guitarist from Japan (yeah probably better than Haino, Mayuzumi...etc etc) __________________
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06.18.2010, 02:19 PM	#6
westernquinoxrox bad moon rising Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 132	fuq that noize merzbow is the only jax kaz jaz __________________
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06.18.2010, 07:41 PM	#7
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,265	the only abe or takayanagi i've heard are the two live records they did together, Mass Projection and Gradually Projection. Both are really good, but also a demanding listen.
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06.19.2010, 06:45 AM	#8
The Earl Of Slander the end of the ugly Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,156	I love love love Abe. I don't really know a huge amount of his stuff, but of what I've heard it's his solo records that really astound me, especially Winter 1972 (which you should get ASAP if you don't have it). Something about that unbelievable tone just screaming out alone in a shitty concrete club, where you can literally hear him playing with him self via the reverberations in the room, in these just so totally solitary extended solo improvisations... it stops me in my tracks every time I hear it. One of my all time favourite (and most underrated) 'out' jazz musicians. __________________ The toothaches got worse, she dreamed of disembodied voices from whose malignance there was no appeal, the soft dusk of mirrors out of which something was about to walk, and empty rooms that waited for her. Your gynaecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.
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06.19.2010, 08:23 AM	#9
Toilet & Bowels invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Europe Posts: 12,265	downloading it now
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06.19.2010, 10:29 AM	#10
batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	He's great. __________________ listen to pink reason
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06.21.2010, 02:33 PM	#11
scott v expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,484	the essential merzbow to me is Rainbow Electronics II and Batzoutui w/ Memorial Gadgets, i can skip alot of the rest he's awesomely prolific and impossible to keep up with. __________________
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06.22.2010, 10:30 AM	#12
The Earl Of Slander the end of the ugly Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,156	If anyone's in the mood, I'm doing a jazz set on my radio show tonight at 11 BST, with a heavy focus on quite 'out' stuff, and I'll be playing a bit of Abe. Listen in! (You can also tune in via Itunes, sometimes more reliably) __________________ The toothaches got worse, she dreamed of disembodied voices from whose malignance there was no appeal, the soft dusk of mirrors out of which something was about to walk, and empty rooms that waited for her. Your gynaecologist has no test for what she was pregnant with.
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06.22.2010, 03:47 PM	#13
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	thanks
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