Japanese guitarist and daxophone player Kazuhisa Uchihashi joins forces with Berlin-based composer and free improvising analogue modular synthesizer player Richard Scott for an album of unique orchestration, the daxophone "humanizing" the playing with unusual voicing.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Japan Packaging: Digipack Recorded at Sound Anatomy, in Berlin, Germany, on August 14th, 2015, by Richard Scott.
"Improvising composers Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Richard Scott, based in Berlin during this recording, worked together intensively in 2015 discovering a vivid, powerful performance in which many genres of sound and noise seem to effortlessly coexist.
Richard Scott is a free improvising electroacoustic composer working with electronics including modular synthesizers and controllers such as the Buchla Thunder and Lightning and his own self-designed WiGi infra red controller developed at STEIM. He has been composing and performing for over 25 years recently working with artists such as Evan Parker, Jon Rose, Richard Barrett, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Shelley Hirsch, Ute Wasserman, Michael Vorfeld, Frank Gratkowski and his own Lightning Ensemble. He studied free improvisation in the 80s with John Stevens, saxophone with Elton Dean and Steve Lacy, and electroacoustic composition with David Berezan and Ricardo Climent. He has released many albums, for example with Grutronic and Evan Parker for PSI records, The Magnificence of Stereo (sruti BOX) and has a solo double modular synthesizer LP, Several Circles and an album with Sidsel Endreson, Debris in Lower Earth Orbit, both due for release on CUSP Editions in 2015.
Kazuhisa Uchihashi was born in Osaka in 1959. Since about 1983 he has actively developed his approach centered on free improvisation with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices. He has collaborated with Yoshihide Otomo, Shelley Hirsch, Shizuru Ohtaka Zeena Parkins, Hans Reichel. Barre Phillips, Kang Tae Hwan, Leo Smith, Peter Brötzmann, Eugene Chadbourne, Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey and many others."-Spektrum