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.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Japan Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, sealed Recorded at Yan Jun's studio in Berlin, Germany, on November 14th, 2016, by Toshimaru Nakamura.
"Toshimaru Nakamura, who uses a no-input mixing board--an instrument played by controlling the mixer feedback--is an improviser admired inside and outside Japan. Beirut-born trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj performs around the world and makes free use of extended playing techniques that produce sounds totally unlike the sounds that most people associate with the trumpet. This CD is comprised of three improvisational performances by Nakamura and Kerbaj, recorded in a studio in Berlin in November 2016. From murmuring exchanges of delicate soft sounds to big sonic give and take, this unique and amazing duo album demonstrates the two musicians' superior skill and sensibility."-Ftarri