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Je est un autre

by Maher Shalal Hash Baz

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about

This recording is not a "best of", it is a reflection of Tori Kudo's evolution as a composer, from playing with seasoned musicians, to playing with people just starting out, from playing with meticulous scores, to playing call & response melodies written down, to the songs here on "Je est un Autre": instant improvisations based on keyboard compositions that Tori plays for the group. Yes, that is it. He plays a recording of himself on the keyboard, with singing or humming sometimes and he leaves it to the "big band" to interpret this on the spot. Sometimes, you can make out the melody, other times it is quite obscure, as if a sort of common shyness flows out of the collected instrumentarium.

And other times, well, it is a big party.

Mr Kudo and the group were invited to tour Europe to celebrate 20 years of the project Le Ton Mité, members of which are absorbed into the ensemble. The recording evolves from the static sound of hermetic conditions to the live concert in the later tracks. The studio here, is a trendy concert hall in Brussels Les Ateliers Claus. You hear the applause of the brave ears that weathered the ride of accidental psychedelia & moiré of various notes fading into and out of each other. This is only a sliver of the material from the 20 hour recording marathon documenting the new composing/playing style of Mr Kudo & snippets from the last concert of the March 2018 tour. Perhaps the album should be called "Je est un autre : Volume 1" in a vague reference to "My Brother The Wind" series from Sun Ra. In any case, here you have four sides of ten inch vinyl to take you on a journey into Maher: Je est un autre...

credits

released November 3, 2019

Tori Kudo : electric guitar, keyboard, voice
Mikiko Suzuki : electric guitar
Marina Shibazaki : electric guitar
Corneliiiii : acoustic guitar, melodion
Naoki Otani : trumpet, voice
Chie Ozeki : trombone, bass, flute
Junko Harada : euphonium
Takahashi Tsukasa : drums, percussion
Junko Suzuki : percussions
Momoko Maejima : pianica
Shiu Yeung Hui : violin, melodica
Eric Kinny : slide guitar, mandolin
Zach Phillips : bass
Jeremy Latch : clarinet
Eleonore Kenis : alto saxophone
McCloud Zicmuse : bassoon, alto clarinet, recorder, chanter, synthisizer, voice
Hans Bloemmen : tenor saxophone
Oona Libens : musical saw
François Schultz : musical saw

Recorded 18 & 24 March 2018 at Ateliers Claus, St Gilles, Belgium
Engineer : Christophe Albertijn

Mixed by Tori Kudo at at Village Hototoguiss studio Dogo, Ehime, Japan

all compositions by Tori Kudo except
Recercada segunda sobre el canto llano "La Spagna" by Diego Ortiz (c. 1510 - c. 1570)
Les Barricades Mystérieuses by François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
Crickets by Jim Wilson

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- Окраина : [Records of the Outskirts], Brussels based label founded by Philippe Delvosalle, inspired by Boris Barnet's film of 1933 and devoted to 10 inch vinyls with all sleeves designed by Gwénola Carrère

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