Label:
An'archives - [An'14]
Series:
Free Wind Mood –
Run
by Cédric Lerouley who also run COmmA
Sublabel
情趣演歌
Format:
Vinyl , LP, Limited Edition to 275 / Country: France / Released: 2018
Style:
Free Jazz , Free improvisation
Side
A, Recorded on June 25, 2017 at Ichibangura, Esashi
Side
B, Recorded on November 18, 2017
Printed
by Alan Sherry
Liner
Notes by Michel Henritzi
Matrix
/ Runout (Side A): 1A – ANARCHIVES [An'14]
Matrix
/ Runout (Side B): 1B – ANARCHIVES [An'14]
Comes
in a heavy old style silkscreened jacket with obi (black, dark green or grey),
postcards and inserts.
Thanks
for their help: Iris Nguyen Duc Long, Jean Noël Rebilly, Fergus Cullen, Jon
Dale, Alan Cummings, Hideo Ikeezumi, Alan Sherry & Michel Henritzi
side 1:
A
- Harutaka Mochizuki – Untitled (Free Wind Mood) .............................................
18:30
side 2:
B
- Kawashima Makoto – Untitled (Free Wind Mood) .............................................
17:50
Musicians:
Harutaka
Mochizuki – alto saxophone
Kawashima
Makoto – alto saxophone
"During
the past decade, a number of free music players in Japan have fiercely, with no
compromise, continued to grapple with the questions that lay at the heart of
the solo saxophone recital: how to tease and tear new formations out of the
interface between human breath, human flesh and skeleton, and the instrument
itself, its keys, holes, pads, reed, and brass body.
With
Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a
side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, and committed players from the
scene: Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima.
While
there are elements of their playing that places them in a history of Japanese
free blowing, from Kaoru Abe through Masayoshi Urabe to now, they both have a
singular voice: Harutaka more stringent and tart, Kawashima, perhaps, more
melancholy. Tellingly, they’ve both intersected with rock music and free sound
ensembles, with Kawashima working alongside Nishizawa Naoto of EXIAS-J
(Experimental Improvisers’ Association of Japan), while Harutaka has worked in
a duo Tomoyuki Aoki of psych-rock group Up-Tight, and guitarist Kondo Hideaki
(also of EXIAS-J).
But
both of them have made their most massive strides forward with their own solo
releases, Kawashima’s potent Homo Sacer one of the final releases on PSF, and
Harutaka’s Pas LP and Through The Glass CD exploring new terrain for the nexus
of breath and brass. Moving on from those releases, Free Wind Mood is a
devastating listening experience, blood and guts on the floor as the players
fully inhabit the architecture of the space, and of the self, and play like
their lives depend on it." (By Jon
Dale)
Divine,
wracked solo saxophone improvisations courtesy of the magnificent An’Archives
and their extraordinary new ‘Free Wind Mood’ series. Absolutely beautiful to
behold too, edition of 275 housed in heavy “old style” silk-screened jacket
with obi strip, postcards and inserts, including liner notes by Michel
Henritzi. Monastically committed reedsmen Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto
Kawashima (whose Homo Sacer was one of the final releases on PSF) are given a
side apiece to grapple with their instrument; Mochizuki’s offering is certainly
engaging, but it’s the more lyrical, melancholy drift of Kawashima’s performance
that we’re instinctively drawn to, the use of negative space reminding us a
little bit of John Butcher at his most expansive or even the Bill Dixon of
November 1981. But even at its most emollient and near-ambient, Free Wind Mood
Vol.1 is serious, searching, masochistic... sonic/spiritual enquiry doesn't get
much rawer, or purer, than this.
Please
see here:
https://anarchiveslabel.bandcamp.com/album/free-wind-mood
If you find it, buy
this album!
