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Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
Gobbledygook
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 008CD
Yoshizawa is a legendary, long-time bass improviser in the Tokyo scene. This albums consists of improvisations recorded in NYC with E.Sharp, Butch Morris and Ikue Mori.
Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
From The Faraway Nearby
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 021CD
The long standing free improv "operator" developed a homemade 5 string bass and this is a solo recording of him playing it with the addition of electronics and "quadruplexed" multitracking.
Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
Empty Hats
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 054CD
1994 recording for solo electric vertical five strings bass, one of Yoshizawa's personal inventions, a terrain previously explored on PSF 8 & 22. The sound here is small, noisy interludes and quirky improv, very quietly recorded & tough to really get into.
Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
Cracked Mirrors
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 055CD
Reissue of a fantastic solo bass album from 1975. With tracks dedicated to Steve Lacy, Barre Phillips and others, this is bowed, flowing higher-key music for the spheres and probably the most interesting Yoshizawa document to date. Not to be dismissed as a mere "solo bass" album.
Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
Play Unlimited
Label:
PSF (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
PSF 095CD
"Yoshizawa is beyond doubt one of the most important, yet unknown, giants of Japanese free improvisation. He has been playing for forty years and was a leading figure in the Japanese free jazz scene of the late sixties and early seventies, both in his own (undocumented) trio, and in groups with such groundbreakers as Masayuki Takayanagi, Masahiko Togashi, and Kaoru Abe. He ranks shoulder to shoulder with Barre Phillips as the leading bass innovator/improvisor. Yoshizawa is perhaps best known in the West for his work on his effects-laden five string bass, which has dominated his previous releases on PSF (
Gobbledygook
,
From the faraway nearby
,
Angels have passed
,
Uzu
, and his guest spots with folk-singer Kazuki Tomokawa). However Yoshizawa started off on acoustic bass and his three solo LPs (
The Cracked Mirror and the Fossil Bird
has been re-released on PSF) on that instrument from the mid-70s stand as unsurpassed monuments to his genius. Twenty years on, this CD again features Yoshizawa on acoustic contrabass, recorded live at Shibuya Appia last year. The beauty, invention, strength and spirit on display are truly peerless. A stunning document from a player who should be as well known as Bailey, Parker et al." -- Alan Cummings
Artist:
YOSHIZAWA, MOTOHARU
Title:
Outfit: Bass Solo 2 1/2
Label:
VIVID SOUND (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$26.00
Catalog #:
VSCD 3056
First reissue of one of Yoshizawa's classic solo bass albums from the 70s. Recorded live at Aoyama Tower Hall in Tokyo on 9/29/75. First time on CD for this long unavailable item. The late Moto Yoshizawa was one of the principle figures in the Japanese underground free music community (see numerous releases on PSF, etc.). Along with
Cracked Mirrors
this documents his subtly & abstract solo activity from early in his career.
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