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Capece, Lucio / Katie Porter: Phase To Phase

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 32196
Catalog Code: ftarri-969
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Rich harmonics and interstitial interactions between two bass clarinets, as Utah-based Katie Porter and Berlin-based Lucio Capece exchanged recordings to develop two compositions, the first focusing on expression in the context of freedom in time, the 2nd using strict time to explore the effects of overlapping-phasing; reference The International Nothing.


International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Just None of Those Things

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 31797
Catalog Code: ftarri-215
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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Using harmonic intersections and extraneous sonic emanations from two clarinets, the duo of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (also of The Magic I.D.) continue their long-standing International Nothing project of composed works through patient interactions of powerfully focused technique, here in their fifth album presenting a 42-minute work of delicate, dark beauty.


Johansen, Per Oddvar / Seijiro Murayama: Dented Time

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 30200
Catalog Code: ftarri-885
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Bringing together two masterful percussionists -- Norwegian drummer Per Oddvar Johansen and Paris-based Japanese drummer Seijiro Murayama -- for a distinctive drum duo, each musician using a minimal set that combines a snare drum with small objects and cymbals, for an album of six improvisations and two composed pieces, all showing restraint in rhythmic interaction.


Frasch, Heather / Ryoko Akama: Linking

Label: Ftarri / Meenna
Product Code: 30198
Catalog Code: meenna-972
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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US sound artists Heather Frasch and UK Ryoko Akama, who together run the mumei journal exploring the relationship between text and sound, in works commissioned by Bruno Duplant based on written texts, each interpreted, recorded and edited by the other using objects, field recordings, electronics, cello & voice, with one piece from Frasch and two versions from Akama.


suzueri (Elico Suzuki): Fata Morgana

Label: Ftarri / Hitorri
Product Code: 30197
Catalog Code: hitorri-982
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Tokyo sound artist Elico Suzuki attached or arranged "gadgets" including a small electric fan, a motor and a radio, to an upright piano whose upper and lower panels were removed and insides exposed, using their inherent sounds and those created by touching them to the piano strings to generate overlapping and evolving sound, ending each piece with force through the keyboard.


Murayama, Seijiro: Mi-Tai

Label: Ftarri / Hitorri
Product Code: 30196
Catalog Code: hitorri-980
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Eight improvised performances on percussion from Paris-based drummer/percussionist Seijiro Murayama recorded in 2019 using acoustic sources from snare drums, mallets, brushes, voice, steel tables, gong and voice, captured in four locations around France and in Mishima City, Japan, each exploring new compositional methods and ways to improvise within them.


Onda, Aki / Nao Nishihara: Kouya-e-to

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 30195
Catalog Code: ftarri-975
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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NYC performer Aki Onda and Yokohama sound artist Nao Nishihara began collaborating in 2015 while Nishihara was residing in NY on an Asian Cultural Council grant, returning in 2016 for this live performance exploring the architecture and acoustics of ISSUE's 22 Boerum Place theater, installing handmade instruments and analog equipment within a visually arranged set-up.


Hirose, Junji / mizutama / Kayu Nakada / Toshimaru Nakamura / Daysuke Takaoka / Yuma Takeshita / Tadashi Yonago: See You at Ftarri

Label: Ftarri / Meenna
Product Code: 30194
Catalog Code: meenna-874
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Three days of improvisations from the the 2019 meeting of Osaka-based musicians mizutama, Tadashi Yonago and Kayu Nakada, plus Tokyo residents Junji Hirose, Toshimaru Nakamura, Daysuke Takaoka and Yuma Takeshita in duos and trios, all using original sound-producing devices or creating sound by repurposing instruments or electronic devices in unique ways.


Dorner, Axel / Toshimaru Nakamura: In Cotton and Wool

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 27930
Catalog Code: ftarri-980
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Meeting in sound artist and vocalist Yan Jun's studio in Berlin in 2017, trumpeter Axel Dörner and no-input mixer artist Toshimaru Nakamura recorded these four active and bristling improvisations, Dörner using every inch of his instrument and treating it with electronics to create the controlled chaos and richly jarring recordings that make up this, their 2nd album together.


Sugimoto, Taku / Minami Saeki: Songs [2 CDs]

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 26635
Catalog Code: ftarri-982
Country: Japan
 
Price: $21.95



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Guitarist Taku Sugimoto and vocalist Minami Saeki developed the concept of this album--extremely short, simple songs performed slowly and quietly, with few sounds, using vocals and guitar only, alongside a few subtle guest, revealing a mysterious organization guiding their work--first released as a single CD in 2016, and now expanded in a 2-CD edition.


Guionnet, Jean-Luc / Seijiro Murayama: Idiophonic

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 26168
Catalog Code: ftarri-985
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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The 4th album from Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama and Parisian Jean Luc Guionnet, typically a saxophonist but here on pipe organ, presenting three live improvisations named for idiophones, instruments that creates sound by vibrating without the use of strings or membranes, with two improvisations at a church in Berlin and one at a church in Ljubljana, Slovenia.


Sugimoto, Taku / Stefan Thut: Taku Sugimoto / Stefan Thut

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 26167
Catalog Code: ftarri-984
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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Two performers related by Wandelweiser--guitarist Taku Sugimoto and cellist Stefan Thut--met at oslo10 in Switzerland to perform two concerts with one composition from each: Stefan Thut uses chance operations changing the music's direction at the prompt of rolled dice; Sugimoto use sustained notes and ebow in a subtle but effective sound work.


Imai, Kazuo / Roger Turner: Molecules [2 CDs]

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 26166
Catalog Code: ftarri-983
Country: Japan
 
Price: $17.95



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Caught live at Bar Isshee in Tokyo, Japan in 2017, the duo of Kazuo Imai (nylon string guitar) and Roger Turner (snare drum, tom tom, cymbals, metal & wood) present two distinct sets, each one on a separate CD, the first using open but continuous playing of great control and precision, the second a more unpredictable and assertive set of unorthodox interplay.


Akiyama, Tetuzi / Magnus Granberg / Henrik Olsson: Whose Words?

Label: Ftarri / Meenna
Product Code: 25516
Catalog Code: meenna-983
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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A surprising joining of improvisers and composers from Japanese acoustic guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama playing with Swedish composers and performers, Magnus Granberg on clarinet and Henrik Olsson on percussion and electronics, the latter two part of the chamber ensemble Skogen, for five works of profound calm and center through slow harmonics weaving beautiful aural statements.


International Nothing, The: In Doubt We Trust

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 25467
Catalog Code: ftarri-216
Country: Japan
 
Price: $16.95



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The duo project of Berlin-based clarinetists Kai Fagaschinski and Michal Thieke, (Magic I.D., Christof Kurzmann, Splitter Ochester) in their 5th album of timbre-rich, harmonically fascinating and slowly evolving reed interactions, returning to their core duo after their previous quartet album, here presenting a large rich and beautifully weaving work.


Kerbaj, Mazen / Toshimaru Nakamura: East of Where?

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 25337
Catalog Code: ftarri-986
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Turkish free improviser trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, best known for the "A" Trio, meets Japanese no-input mixing board pioneer Toshimaru Nakamura for an insanely energetic duo of squelchy electroacoustic improvisations, both players staying on the electric side, and on the far side of lowercase ea-improv as the two ebb and flow a wild dialog of sound.


Suzuki, Akio / John Butcher: Immediate Landscapes

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 24828
Catalog Code: ftarri-987
Country: Japan
 
Price: $16.95



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At the same event in Scotland that John Butcher recorded his excellent "Resonant Spaces" album, he also joined forces with sound artist Akio Suzuki on a variety of objects and sound devices to record the first 5 tracks of this unusual album of very free improv, the last track by the duo recording at the 2015 Ftarri Festival at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo.


Murayama, Seijiro / Jean-Luc Guionnet: Mishima, Day & Night

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 20977
Catalog Code: ftarri-990
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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The third album from Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama and French saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet, each presenting unique languages and approaches to their instruments, here in four recordings made in two locations, once during the day in Mishima City at Hongaku Temple and the other at Teke Bar in the same city and on the same evening.


International Nothing, The: The Dark Side of Success

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 19965
Catalog Code: ftarri-218
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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The duo of Berlin clarinetists Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke (The Magic I.D.) create rich, evolving soundscapes using tones and odd interjections in unison and in dissonance, dark works of subtle beauty in unique sound oriented compositions.


Davies, Rhodri / John Butcher: Routing Lynn

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 19911
Catalog Code: ftarri-217
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.95



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Chris Watson recorded John Butcher on acoustic & amplified sax and Rhodri Davies on acoustic & electric harp in Routing Lynn in Northumberland, then joined them live at a festival in Gateshead where the duo played alongside Watson's reworked recordings.


Murayama, Seijiro / Eric La Casa: Paris: Public Spaces

Label: Ftarri/Swarming
Product Code: 19582
Catalog Code: ftarri-992
Country: France
 
Price: $12.95



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Twelve recordings constructed from 2012 field recordings of public locations in Paris by Eric La Casa and Seijiro Murayama, including subway stations, parks, open gardens, tunnels and fountains; a fascinating portrait of communal sound in this great city.


Akiyama, Tetuzi / Takuji Kawai: Transition

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 15070
Catalog Code: ftarri-997
Country: Japan
 
Price: $8.20



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Eight duo improvisations on acoustic guitar and piano, with pianist Kawai preparing the piano with bolts, threads, &c. and Akiyama switching between prepared and slide guitar.


International Nothing, The (Fagaschinski / Thieke): Less Action, Less Excitement, Less Everything

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 13214
Catalog Code: 219
Country: Japan
 
Price: $17.95



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Masters of tonality, in their 2nd release the dual clarinets of Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke are heard without any guest musicians, making a rich, gorgeous album of tense timbres.


Butcher, John / Rhodri Davies: Carliol

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 13063
Catalog Code: ftarri-220
Country: Japan
 
Price: $14.50



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Dark and beautiful improvisation from saxophonist and electronics artist John Butcher and harpist Rhodri Davies, an incredible display of timbre, technique, and pacing.


Murayama, Seijiro / Soundworm: Space & Place

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 12171
Catalog Code: ftarri-998
Country: Japan
 
Price: $13.50



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Percussionist Murayama and Soundworm (Hiromits Shoji) in a work following a score that switches between clusters of live microphones as Murayama improvises to the resulting sound.


Naoshima / Takeda / Kawasaki / Takeuchi / Koike / Kawaguchi / Totsuka: Septet

Label: Ftarri/Improvised Music from Japan
Product Code: 08668
Catalog Code: meenna-333
Country: Japan
 
Price: $16.95



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International Nothing, The: Mainstream

Label: Ftarri
Product Code: 08222
Catalog Code: 222
Country: Japan
 
Price: $15.95



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