Four major electroacoustic improvisers — Bryan Eubanks on soprano saxophone, electronics and modular synthesizer, Gert-Jan Prins on electronics and percussion, Tetuzi Akiyama on guitar, and Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board — each recorded separate solo performances, assembled by Prins, Eubanks and Nakamura into four distinct collective works of shifting textures and sonic interplay.
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Bryan Eubanks-soprano saxophone, electronics, modular synthesizer
Gert-Jan Prins-electronics, percussion
Tetuzi Akiyama-guitar
Toshimaru Nakamura-no input mixing board
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Label: Meenna
Catalog ID: meenna-941
Squidco Product Code: 37896
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Japan
Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve
Recorded in March 2025.
An unusual electroacoustic collaboration bringing together four major improvisers from Japan, Europe and the US: Berlin-based saxophonist/electronic musician Bryan Eubanks, Amsterdam electronic improviser Gert-Jan Prins, guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama and no-input mixing board pioneer Toshimaru Nakamura.
Rather than recording together, each musician made an independent solo performance in March 2025; those four recordings were then combined into four different collective works, mixed respectively by Prins, Eubanks and, for the final two tracks, Nakamura. The result is less a conventional overdubbed quartet than four alternate constructions from the same pool of spontaneous material, each mix imposing a different sense of density, balance and trajectory on the musicians' sounds.
Across the album, soprano saxophone cries and sustained tones move through fields of modular synthesis, electrical feedback, static, fractured guitar, percussion and elusive electronic textures, ranging from spacious, finely differentiated passages to turbulent accumulations of noise.
The process is particularly appropriate for players whose work has long blurred improvisation, electronics and sound construction: Akiyama and Nakamura were central figures in Tokyo's Onkyo scene, while Prins and Eubanks have developed equally individual approaches to live electronics and electroacoustic improvisation.
Released on Meenna in a limited edition of 250 copies, Spring turns four geographically separated solos into a remarkably convincing and mutable quartet music, with the act of mixing itself becoming part of the improvisational language.
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Bryan Eubanks "Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) is a musician composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and idiosyncratic electronics; improvising in collaboration; and experimenting with spatial diffusion techniques. Publicly active since 2001, he's had numerous collaborations and presented his work internationally in a variety of settings." ^ Hide Bio for Bryan Eubanks • Show Bio for Gert-Jan Prins "Gert-Jan Prins focuses on the sonic and musical qualities of electronic noise and percussion and investigates its relationship with the visual. While he started his career as a drummer, his works include performances, sound-installations, compositions, electronic circuits and collaborations with other musicians, visual artists, composers, and dancers." ^ Hide Bio for Gert-Jan Prins • Show Bio for Tetuzi Akiyama "Tetuzi Akiyama (Akiyama Tetsuji) (born 13 April 1964) is a Japanese guitarist, violinist, and instrument-maker. Akiyama formed the improvisation group Madhar in 1987, and the classical ensemble Hikyo String Quintet in 1994 (which also included Taku Sugimoto on cello). In 1995, Akiyama and Sugimoto formed a guitar duo, and played at venues in New York City, Chicago, and Detroit. During this time, Akiyama was also a member of Keiji Haino's Nijiumu outfit. Akiyama also formed Sutekina Tea Time (a duo with Takashi Matsuoka) and Mongoose (a trio with Taku Sugimoto and Utah Kawasaki). In 1998 Akiyama began organising a monthly concert series, The Improvisation Meeting, with Toshimaru Nakamura. In December 2006 he began a regular duo with Hervé Boghossian (France), they toured in Europe (France, Portugal, Switzerland, England) several times in 2007 (in May, October & December) & also played in Tokyo during Hervé Boghossian Japanese tour in August/September 2008. In 2009 he worked with David Sylvian." ^ Hide Bio for Tetuzi Akiyama • Show Bio for Toshimaru Nakamura "Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo. He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar, and started working on circuit bending. He uses a mixing console as a live, interactive musical instrument: "Nakamura plays the 'no-input mixing board', connecting the input of the board to the output, then manipulating the resultant audio feedback." Nakamura's music has been described as "sounds ranging from piercing high tones and shimmering whistles to galumphing, crackle-spattered bass patterns." Nakamura founded the ensemble A Paragon of Beauty in 1992. He has recorded solo albums, worked as a session musician, and collaborated with artists including Sachiko M ("a kindred spirit"), Otomo Yoshihide, Keith Rowe, John Butcher, Nicholas Bussmann, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, dancer Kim Ito, and drummer Jason Kahn." ^ Hide Bio for Toshimaru Nakamura
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Track Listing:
1. Pane (Mixed By Prins) 15:05
2. Epan (Mixed By Eubanks) 10:04
3. 3: Nepa (Mixed By Nakamura) 10:14
4. Anep (Mixed By Nakamura) 13:12
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September 2026
Electro-Acoustic
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