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Mud

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Yong Yandsen-tenor saxophone

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UPC: 4580518510742

Label: Armageddon Nova
Catalog ID: AN-R 10
Squidco Product Code: 36223

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Japan
Packaging: Jewel Case
Recorded at Khatulistiwa, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on September 29th, 2024, by Yii Kah Hoe.

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Yong Yandsen is a Malaysian free improvising saxophonist, known primarily in Southeast Asia and increasingly in Europe. Yandsen runs the Lao Ban record label and also the concert series SPIL. He has a distinctive and expressive voice on the tenor saxophone that is influenced by players like Kaoru Abe, Albert Alyer and John Butcher.

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Track Listing:

1. Mud pt.1 5:12

2. Mud pt.2 5:11

3. Mud pt.3 10:22

4. Mud pt.4 20:08

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