The trio of Portuguese cellist Guilherme Rodrigues, Japanese percussionist Naoto Yamagish currently residing in France, and Japanese violinist Naoki Kita, active in improvisation and contemporary fields in Portugal and Berlin, met in Saitama, Japan at Barber Fuji to record these open conversations integrating extraneous noise and incidental instrumental sounds.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at Barber Fuji in Saitama, Japan, on September 16th, 2019.
"This Japan-Portugal meeting took place in September 2019 at Barber Fuji in Saitama. Naoki Kita (violin), Naoto Yamagishi (percussion) and Guilherme Rodrigues (cello) got together for a free improv session, which yielded about 40 minutes of music divided into four themes. Here we have noticeable influences of Japanese free impro, including noise elements that are noticeably present. The recording shows the trio in a rough dialogue, which has its best in the harshest moments.
The music oscillates between more detailed passages and more explicit noisy attacks, in sequences that guide listeners through labyrinths without much clarity as to where they are going. In general, the pieces start more calmly, with the sounds coming and growing little by little, sometimes being a very imagistic process, coming to seem to have been developed with the purpose of dialoguing with images.
Track III is the one that best condenses the proposal of the trio, with the music soon heading towards its peak, sounding especially sharp after less than three minutes. From delicate pizzicato to scraping lines, violin and cello share trails interrupted by percussion in a sound that can oscillate in the same piece between meditative echoes and penetrating attacks."-Fabricio Vieira at FreeForm, FreeJazz (translated by Google)