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Osaka 19:32
3.
Tokyo 07:59
4.
Kobe 07:48
5.
Gagaku 03:49
6.
Kyoto 09:20

about

The music of this album is a selection of raw live recordings from a Japan tour in February/March 2020, just before the pandemic forced a complete lockdown.
Not all concerts of the tour are represented but a selection of passages has been made in order to trim the recordings down to an album length of musical variety.

Dates and venues of the recordings:

Tokyo (day one): February 22. Koen-dori Classics, Tokyo
Osaka: March 9. Common Cafe, Osaka
Tokyo: February 29. Jazz Spot Candy, Tokyo
Kobe: March 8. Big Apple, Kobe
Gagaku: February 28. Jinbocho Shichoshitsu, Tokyo
Kyoto: March 11. Jazz In, Kyoto

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まっ裸の旅人

 谷 真理江

暗闇に舞い上がる炎
火の粉がパチパチと燃え
深層心理があぶり出される

すべての鍵を投げ棄て
表皮を脱ぎ棄て
時を忘れ去る

まっ裸になった
旅人に宿った
生まれたての魂

とぎすまされた魂は爆発する
呼応する魂を探し求めながら

はげしく舞い上がる真っ赤な炎の宴は
限りない喜びをまとい
未知の世界をつれてくる

狭隘な情動の通路を
くぐりぬけると
そこは
月明かりに照らされた
原始の森

English translation:

NAKED TRAVELER

Marie Tani

Flames soaring in the dark
The sparks burn cracklingly
Depth psychology is revealed

Throw away all the keys
Take off the epidermis
Forget the time

Naked traveler
In which stayed
Newborn soul

The sharpened soul explodes
In search of a soul that respond

The feast of bright red flames soaring violently
Wearing endless joy
Bringing the unknown world

A narrow emotional passage
When you go through
There
Illuminated by the moonlight
Primitive forest

_____

TRYST

Eliot Cardinaux

It’s wilderness
this language

To survive
it
find me

Free me
& be
free of me

Here is wood
make fire
feed the wolf
at your
betrayal
make a friend
of medicine

This
is not your house
you only
made it
lest someone
need it
as the next
thing
forces you away

credits

released January 26, 2022

All music improvised by

Haruhiko Okabe: tenor saxophone, hichiriki
Asger Thomsen: double bass, objects

Guest musicians on track 5:
Jumpei Ohtsuka: sho
Yumiko Kiyota: ryuteki

Recording: Haruhiko Okabe
Editing, mix, layout: Asger Thomsen

Poems by Marie Tani and Eliot Cardinaux

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Asger Thomsen Denmark

Bass player/composer Copenhagen, Denmark

Aram Shelton/Asger Thomsen - Nyboder Duets: singlespeedmusic.bandcamp.com/album/nyboder-duets

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