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lll  (Daichi Yoshikawa / Paul Abbott / Seymour Wright): Gjerhan [VINYL] (Otoroku)

The trio of Daichi Yoshikawa (feedback), Paul Abbott (drums) and Seymour Wright (sax) in two 20 minute excerpts from two separate performances at Cafe OTO in 2013, bare exuberant and exhilarating free improvisation on the cutting edge.
 

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Seymour Wright-alto saxophone

Paul Abbott-drums

Daichi Yoshikawa-electronics

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Limited edition of 500 LPs. 180g vinyl. 5 colour (!!!) printed inner and outer sleeves. The main image above is taken from the inner sleeve.

UPC: B00MGS217E

Label: Otoroku
Catalog ID: ROKU 011LP
Squidco Product Code: 19432

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2014
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: LP
Recorded at Cafe OTO, in London, UK, on August 28th, 2013, by Stuart Bannister, and on December 7th 2013, by Kate Arnold.
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"Seymour Wright - saxophonist, investigator, artist - lives in London. His practice is about the saxophone - music, history and technique ­- actual and potential; an on-going, rigorous and exhaustive exploration of the instrument. The energy of this learning is applied to various collaborations and contexts to access/share what he has called the 'awkward wealth of investigation'. His work is documented on two widely acclaimed self-released collections Seymour Wright of Derby (2008) and Seymour Writes Back (2015). As well as STEPS, his current collaborations include lll人 (with Daichi Yoshikawa and Paul Abbott), GUO (with Daniel Blumberg) and XT (with Paul Abbott)."

-Cafe Oto (https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/seymour-wright/)
6/10/2026

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"Paul Abbott is an artist and musician based in London, working through questions and feelings connecting music, language and politics: using drums, performance, writing, and publishing. He is currently one of the Sound and Music "Embedded" resident artists at Cafe Oto and a co-editor of Cesura//Acceso journal.

His current collaborations include XT (with Seymour Wright), lll人 (with Daichi Yoshikawa and Seymour Wright) and ULAPAARC (with Cara Tolmie). A series of solo performances in Cafe OTO's project space are documented here. Recent releases include qno, Vagus, Pah', and vjerhanxsk."

-Cafe Oto (https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/paul-abbott-cara-tolmie-will-holder-seymour-wright/)
6/10/2026

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"Daichi Yoshikawa is a Japanese sound artist based in London and Berlin. A former participant of workshops organised by AMM co-founder Eddie Prevost and sound artist David Toop, Yoshikawa's distinct sound comes from feedback systems generated between homemade assemblages of speakers, contact microphones, and various found objects. Developing his ability as an improviser through years of attendance at Prevost's weekly workshops, Yoshikawa is singularly unique in his facility to wield electronic feedback as an instrument capable of both dialogic potential and genuine musicality in a group setting. Combining the collaborative sensitivity of a player like Toshimaru Nakamura with a techno and noise-derived penchant for enamel-peeling feedback tones and lurching metallic rhythms, Yoshikawa's electroacoustic practice creates brutalist landscapes of sound from the space between noise and silence. Yoshikawa is also part of the ensemble lll人, a London-based group with Seymour Wright and Paul Abbott, and has collaborated with Joel Grip, Antonin Gerbal, Samo Kutin, Lee Patterson and Rie Nakajima."

-Cafe Oto (https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/daichi-yoshikawa/)
6/10/2026

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