Kawashima, Mochizuki, Henritzi
Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru
French guitarist and pedal steel player Michel Henritzi teams up with Japanese sax dons Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima on this ragged three tracker, inspired by Austrian expressionist poet George Trakl's "Nachtlied".
'Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru' is a tough album to define. Led by the extraordinary sax duo of Makoto Kawashima and Harutaka Mochizuki, with Michel Henritzi padding out the space in-between using lapsteel and guitar feedback, it's a record that feels indebted to the free improv scene but not beholden to it. Henritzi's cloudy textures provide a subtle inky backdrop for Kawashima and Mochizuki's expressive overblown alto blasts, that dip and spray like screams in the night.
Reference points might be scene originators like Anthony Braxton and Peter Brötzmann, or more recent acolytes such as Mats Gustafsson, but Kawashima and Mochizuki also touch on the frothy freewheeling noise of Les Rallizes Denudes, and Henritzi's contributions strike a chord that's not a million miles from Heather Leigh's sacred dissonance. Very nice.
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French guitarist and pedal steel player Michel Henritzi teams up with Japanese sax dons Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima on this ragged three tracker, inspired by Austrian expressionist poet George Trakl's "Nachtlied".
'Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru' is a tough album to define. Led by the extraordinary sax duo of Makoto Kawashima and Harutaka Mochizuki, with Michel Henritzi padding out the space in-between using lapsteel and guitar feedback, it's a record that feels indebted to the free improv scene but not beholden to it. Henritzi's cloudy textures provide a subtle inky backdrop for Kawashima and Mochizuki's expressive overblown alto blasts, that dip and spray like screams in the night.
Reference points might be scene originators like Anthony Braxton and Peter Brötzmann, or more recent acolytes such as Mats Gustafsson, but Kawashima and Mochizuki also touch on the frothy freewheeling noise of Les Rallizes Denudes, and Henritzi's contributions strike a chord that's not a million miles from Heather Leigh's sacred dissonance. Very nice.
French guitarist and pedal steel player Michel Henritzi teams up with Japanese sax dons Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima on this ragged three tracker, inspired by Austrian expressionist poet George Trakl's "Nachtlied".
'Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru' is a tough album to define. Led by the extraordinary sax duo of Makoto Kawashima and Harutaka Mochizuki, with Michel Henritzi padding out the space in-between using lapsteel and guitar feedback, it's a record that feels indebted to the free improv scene but not beholden to it. Henritzi's cloudy textures provide a subtle inky backdrop for Kawashima and Mochizuki's expressive overblown alto blasts, that dip and spray like screams in the night.
Reference points might be scene originators like Anthony Braxton and Peter Brötzmann, or more recent acolytes such as Mats Gustafsson, but Kawashima and Mochizuki also touch on the frothy freewheeling noise of Les Rallizes Denudes, and Henritzi's contributions strike a chord that's not a million miles from Heather Leigh's sacred dissonance. Very nice.
French guitarist and pedal steel player Michel Henritzi teams up with Japanese sax dons Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima on this ragged three tracker, inspired by Austrian expressionist poet George Trakl's "Nachtlied".
'Chinmoku wa ishikure ni yadoru' is a tough album to define. Led by the extraordinary sax duo of Makoto Kawashima and Harutaka Mochizuki, with Michel Henritzi padding out the space in-between using lapsteel and guitar feedback, it's a record that feels indebted to the free improv scene but not beholden to it. Henritzi's cloudy textures provide a subtle inky backdrop for Kawashima and Mochizuki's expressive overblown alto blasts, that dip and spray like screams in the night.
Reference points might be scene originators like Anthony Braxton and Peter Brötzmann, or more recent acolytes such as Mats Gustafsson, but Kawashima and Mochizuki also touch on the frothy freewheeling noise of Les Rallizes Denudes, and Henritzi's contributions strike a chord that's not a million miles from Heather Leigh's sacred dissonance. Very nice.