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Nakatani, Tatsuya / Kris Tiner: Dagny (Nakatani-Kobo)

An extended improvisation in two parts at Dagny's Coffe Company in Bakersfield, CA: first a solo performance by Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in a sweeping sonic manifestation of bowed gongs, cymbals, bass drums and objects, which then continues as a duo with trumpeter Kris Tiner for an exhilaratingly peak of adept brass excitement ending in a pensive reflection.
 

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Label: Nakatani-Kobo
Catalog ID: NKATW-4
Squidco Product Code: 32422

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2022
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock Sleeve in Plastic Sleeve
Recorded live at Dagny's in Bakersfield, California, on May 26th, 2022.

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An extended improvisation in two parts at Dagny's Coffe Company in Bakersfield, CA: first a solo performance by Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in a sweeping sonic manifestation of bowed gongs, cymbals, bass drums and objects, which then continues as a duo with trumpeter Kris Tiner for an exhilaratingly peak of adept brass excitement ending in a pensive reflection.


Artist Biographies

"Tatsuya Nakatani. Acoustic Sound Artist, Master Percussionist. b. 1970, Osaka Japan

Tatsuya Nakatani is an acoustic sound artist and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. He has released over eighty recordings in North America and Europe. Residing in the USA since the mid-nineties, he has performed countless solo percussion concerts and has collaborated with hundreds of artists in international music festivals, university concert halls, art museums and independent venues. Infamous for his constant touring, Nakatani criss-crosses the country every year inspiring audiences with his pioneering sound. In addition to his solo performances, he conducts the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO), a mobile community engagement project which organizes local ensembles performing on multiple bowed gongs.Nakatani teaches master classes and workshops at universities, giving students an opportunity to share his unique musical approach and philosophy for creating visceral, non-linear music.

He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. Utilizing drums, gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, wooden sticks, metal objects, and the bows and mallets he handcrafts in his Kobo; he creates an intense, intuitively primitive, expressive music that defies genre. His work references improvised-experimental music, free jazz, and noise, while still retaining the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music."

-Tatsuya Nakatani Website (http://www.hhproduction.org/tatsuya_bio.html)
3/27/2024

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"Kris Tiner is a trumpet player, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 20 years. His playing has been described as "extraordinarily inventive" in Signal to Noise Magazine, "perfectly suited to the moment" in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that "trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty." Tiner's compositions explore connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams of contemporary music. His music has been performed on five continents, his 70+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has been recognized with awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center, the International Association for Jazz Education, the Kern County Music Educators' Association, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. In addition to interdisciplinary projects involving dance, spoken word, visual art, film and animation, he has recorded music for radio, television, and motion picture scores, and his trumpet playing has been heard on MTV, NBC, PBS, and Comedy Central.

He has toured widely with the Empty Cage Quartet, whose 2008 CD Stratostrophic on Portugal's Clean Feed record label was hailed as "one of the best things in jazz to emerge in the new millennium" by the UK magazine The Wire. He also collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag; their CD Bridges was chosen as one of the ten best jazz recordings of 2011 in Time Out New York. Tiner performs with the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Chris Schlarb's Psychic Temple, Vidya Trio (with pianist Motoko Honda and saxophonist Beth Schenck), the Industrial Jazz Group, the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Kraig Grady, Tatsuya Nakatani, Nels Cline, Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, Lukas Ligeti, Gerry Hemingway, Donald Robinson, Charles Gaines, Angelica Sanchez, Gianni Gebbia, Joe La Barbera, Jeff Kaiser, Phillip Greenlief, Nate Wooley, Lucian Ban, Todd Barton, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ken Filiano, Taylor Ho Bynum, Lisa Mezzacappa, Sara Schoenbeck, Harris Eisenstadt, and Michael Vlatkovich. He has been featured at the FONT Festival of New Trumpet Music (New York), Aperitivo in Concerto (Milan), Clean Feed Festival (New York), Angel City Jazz Festival (Los Angeles), Is That Jazz? Festival (Seattle), Gateshead Jazz Festival (UK), In The Flow Festival (Sacramento), The Outpost Creative Soundspace Festival (Albuquerque), NMASS Festival (Austin), and the Mission Creek Arts Festival (San Francisco).

Tiner is an Associate Professor of Music and the Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College, and he has also taught at California Institute of the Arts, CSU Bakersfield, Taft College, and the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from CalArts, where his teachers included Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Edward Carroll, Kobla Ladzekpo, Morton Subotnick, and Charlie Haden. He has been a visiting lecturer and performer at Durham University, Bennington College, The Art Institute of Seattle, Northwestern University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and many other schools and universities throughout the United States and Europe, and he has presented at conferences of the International Society for Improvised Music, the California Art Education Association, and the Music Association of California Community Colleges. Tiner is a board member of the nonprofit Bakersfield Jazz Workshop, and he has organized a successful series of concerts and multimedia performances in the emerging Downtown Arts District of Bakersfield for many years. He is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to the documentation of new creative music recorded in Bakersfield."

-Kris Tiner Website (http://kristiner.com/about/)
3/27/2024

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2. Untitled 17:38

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