Also known as "Improvisations for Kulintang", this live album of energetic and informed free jazz occurred between legendary Japanese percussionist Sabu Toyozumi and Philippine-based saxophonist Rick Countryman in Dec 2018, with featured guest Tusa Montes performing on prepared Kulintang percussion, a set of horizontally laid gongs that add tympanic melody.
Label: ChapChap Records Catalog ID: CPCD-015 Squidco Product Code: 27386
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Philippines Packaging: Jewel Case Recorded at Balete Event House, in the Philippines, on December 10th, 2018, by Alvin Cornista.
"This CD, aka "Improvisations for Kulintang", is a special trio collaboration in the Philippines that occurred between Sabu Toyozumi and Rick Countryman in Dec 2018, with featured guest artist Tusa Montes. Tusa is a session percussionist and university instructor in Manila, and a renown kulintang player through out Asia. Kulintang is a "modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums" (Wikipedia.) It has deep a cultural history in the Philippines, as well as its own personal musical language. For this "recorded live" performance, Tusa Montes is on "prepared kulintang", adding a small amount of electronic effects, and Sabu and Rick are on their usual drums and alto sax."-Rick Countryman