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01/01/2004 Paris Transatlantic Magazine, Paris http://www.paristransatlantic.com Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman Storobo Imp (False Walls / fw04) Gene Coleman's work as a bass clarinettist and as a tireless promoter of genre-defying music (he's championed the music of Luc Ferrari and Mathias Spahlinger) is exemplary, and this set of seven improvised duos with Kazuhisa Uchihashi is superb. Uchihashi has been unfairly overlooked in recent times - other Japanese guitarists (of the onkyo persuasion) have tended to dominate the alt.music press - but he's been quietly perfecting not only his use of electronics but also the daxophone, a wild and wonderful instrument invented by Hans Reichel that sounds like a couple of walruses fucking in a plastic bathtub. (PT regulars will recall Kazu's appearance on the recent Spool trio date with Brett Larner and Joëlle Léandre, No Day Rising.) Together with Coleman's fruity bass clarinet, it sounds magnificent. Silly descriptions aside, there's a great sense of integrity to this music, and fabulous playing and listening throughout. While many guitarists these days seem to spend much of their time deciding which note to play next (or even whether to play at all), Uchihashi gets down to business, and it's a joy.
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