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Artist:	SUGIMOTO, TAKU
Title:	Chamber Music
Label:	BOTTROP-BOY (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BBOY 019CD

"Taku Sugimoto has been one of the most important musicians on the improv-front for some years now with releases on Erstwhile, Grob, A Bruit Secret, Improvised Music From Japan and many other labels. Redefining guitar improv with his ultra minimal way of playing, the most extreme endpoint for this was the Taku Sugimoto Guitar Quartet album released earlier this year on Bottrop-Boy. On Chamber Music he puts the guitar aside and composes 3 pieces for violin, cello and piano. He creates the same sustained sound as his guitar pieces, although these new works sound more composed and could be compared to modern classical composers such as Feldman. Only after an hour Sugimoto's guitar enters the frame together with a banjo for the short closing track."

Artist:	SUGIMOTO, TAKU
Title:	Live in Australia
Label:	IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN (JAPAN)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$24.00
Catalog #:	IMJ 524/5

"Taku Sugimoto is an extremely restrained guitarist who produces very few sounds in performance, allowing silence to be the controlling force. As an improviser and composer, he's garnered international acclaim, and also provoked strong reactions, both positive and negative. This two-CD set documents Sugimoto's live performances, in Australia in September 2003, of two of his own compositions (one per CD): 'Dot (73)' and 'Music for Amplified Guitar.' Environmental sounds -- listeners' coughs, footsteps, and chair scraping, as well as noises from outside -- make their way clearly and naturally into Sugimoto's live concerts. Occasionally there's a sound from his guitar; it's as if he were collaborating with the sounds around him. This is very much the case on Live in Australia, and particularly on Disc 1. As the performance began, so did a rain shower, which grew more intense, filling the space with a sound like white noise. Over this background noise, Sugimoto quietly plucked a handful of short sounds. The set includes a long (1,000+ word) essay by Sugimoto that sheds new light on his musical ideas."

Artist:	SUGIMOTO, TAKU
Title:	Mienai Tenshi
Label:	WEIRD FOREST
Format:	LP
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	WEIRD 042LP

"This is Taku Sugimoto's very first solo release originally released in 1988 by the artist himself in a small edition of 100 copies. Its a far cry from his current style. Back then, Taku was very much influenced by MC5 and The Velvet Underground. This is a fiery live in-the-red solo electric guitar improv blowout! Fans of Masayuki Takayanagi and High Rise take heed! Mastered from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Faithful reproduction of the original insert and the debossed handmade covers. Limited to 500 copies."

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