Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu - Gagarin! (2009)

Mickey Finn + Cuong Vu - Gagarin! (2009)

Personnel:
Coung Vu: trumpet, fx
Enrico Terragnoli: guitars, podophono
Giorhio Pacorig: rhodes, piano
Danilo Gallo: acoustic bass guitar, 12strings bass, doublebass
Zeno De Rossi: drums, percussion

featuring Carla Bozulich vocals on #7

Tracklisting:
01. The Lady Is a Trans (Danilo Gallo)
02. Again, Again (Cuong Vu)
03. Serpente (Enrico Terragnoli)
04. I Met Einstein In A Dream (Zeno De Rossi)
05. Land Mine (Giorgio Pacorig)
06. Gian Maria Volonte' (Zeno De Rossi)
07. I Can't Feel It Anymore (De Rossi / Bozulich)
08. Jean Gabin (Zeno De Rossi)
09. ... And Again (Cuong Vu)
10. Amy (Danilo Gallo)

A truly remarkable quintet, Mickey Finn, embellished by Cuong Vu's trumpet: electric sounds - echoes of Miles Davis in the Seventies and English rock, posterities from Chicago and some funk - spreading in dreamlike and restless landscapes, haunted by low-fi ghosts.
Excellent performance by Giorgio Pacorig on keyboards and Enrico Terragnoli on guitar, backed by a sulphurous Danilo Gallo on bass and by Zeno De Rossi on drums, while Cuong Vu, as usual, paints his poignant and lysergic lines.
One of the songs also features of Carla Bozulich's intense voice. The album pays tribute to Soviet aviator and cosmonaut Jurij Alekseevič Gagarin, the first man in space.
[el gallo rojo]

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Katayama Hiroaki Quartet - Quatre (2002)

Katayama Hiroaki Quartet - Quatre (2002)

(Studio Wee, SW207) (Japan) (CD)

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1. For You (9:48)
2. Sous le Ciel de Paris (7:22)
3. March (9:02)
4. Quatre (5:30)
5. Hallelujah (9:55)
6. Por una Cabeza (5:45)
7. Improvisation (3:17)
8. Nairobi Star (Dedicated to Akira Ishikawa) (7:33)

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Music by Fumio Itabashi (1, 8), Hubert Giraud (2), Hiroaki Katayama (3, 4), Ieonard Cohen (5), and Carlos Gardel (6)

Hiroaki Katayama Quartet
Hiroaki Katayama: tenor sax
Fumio Itabashi: piano
Nobuyoshi Ino: bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion

Produced by Hiroaki Katayama and Hiroaki Wakiya
Recorded at Ongaku no Mori Hall in Kobuchisawa on February 26 and 27, 2002
Mixed at Gumbo Studio in Yokohama on March 4 and 5, 2002
Engineered by Shinji Kawase
Mastered by Hiroshi Shiota
Design and photography by Tomoo Maruono

Released April 2002

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Sim & Moe Kamura - Common Difference (2006)

Sim & Moe Kamura - Common Difference (2006)

(MIDI Creative, CXCA-1199) (Japan) (CD)

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1. 6:4:6 (5:56)
2. Along the River (7:18)
3. Sis (8:30)
4. Sea Song (9:31)
5. Roota (8:23)
6. Arm Connect (6:59)
7. Keep the Altitude (6:52)

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All music by Teruyuki Oshima except on track 4, by Robert Wyatt, and vocals on track 7, by Moe Kamura
All words by Moe Kamura and Teruyuki Oshima except on track 4, by Robert Wyatt

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Teruyuki Oshima: guitar, computer
Yoshio Otani: computer, electronics
Masahiro Uemura: drums

Moe Kamura: vocals

Produced by Teruyuki Oshima
Recorded by Teruyuki Oshima at Studio Seisho and others
Mixed by Teruyuki Oshima at Studio 201
Mastered by Shoji Hiromits at Sara Disc
Artwork by Teruyuki Oshima
Design by Ai Komoto
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Atsushi Sasaki and Moe Kamura

Released in October 2006

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