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fw04 - - Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman Storobo Imp. release
date: January 2004 price: $12 U.S., £10 U.K. Order>>> mp3:
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When Gene Coleman was living and working in Japan in 2001, he and Uchihashi Kazuhisa played a number of concerts together, and at the Storobo recording studio in Tokyo produced Storobo Imp. All tracks feature Gene Coleman on bass clarinet; Uchihashi Kazuhisa plays guitar/electronics on two tracks, while on other tracks plays the daxophone. The performances were fully improvised; no plan or structure was set in advance. Remarkable
improvisational engagement is revealed across a series of diverse
settings: from manic squabbles to contemplative drifting; single
shimmering notes to rhythmic and melodic sequences. The varied breath
flowing through the bass clarinet meshing with the sounds of guitar
and daxophone, exposing and exploring sounds tenderly and dynamically. -------------------- Reviews of Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman Storobo Imp. 01/01/2004 01/01/2004 10/01/2003 01/01/2004 de:bug, Berlin Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman Storobo Imp (False Walls / fw04) False Walls, a young label from Chicago, presents us a rare recording of an instrument invented by Hans Reichel - the daxophone. On this disc it is performed by the ex-Ground Zero member Kazuhisa who also plays guitar and electronics. Coleman plays bass clarinet. Improvisations don't like to be named. The tracks remain untitled to suggest openness or hints of themselves - but does it grumble from all directions! Coleman juggles the tubes of his instrument and Kazuhisa sensitively plays along with him or at times tackles him. Alleged chaos appears every now and then, yet the invisible thread between the two musicians holds strong and permits a most free and delicate 'together'. Impressive. -
translated by Boris Hauf 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. 10/01/2003 Tangents, UK Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman Storobo Imp (False Walls / fw04) …a beautiful duo recording by Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Gene Coleman on Chicago’s False Walls label. storobo imp contains seven improvised duets where bass clarinet and daxophone, guitar and electronics, converse and explore the full range of sound, dynamics and silence. This is careful, mesmerising, considered music that quietly convinces.
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