Tag: Natsuki Tamura

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The collaboration between Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii is almost beyond parallel in the history of jazz as they have played in close proximity on what is approaching 150 records since the mid-nineties. While many of those collaborations have involved their respective orchestras or quartets and their shared band Gato Libre, even as a duo - from their debut...

After a fulsome embrace of jazz and roots music on her Blue Note debut The Omnichord Real Book - where she laid down her spear and traded sweet grooves with the likes of Joel Ross, Jeff Parker, Ambrose Akinmusire and Brandee Younger while the distinctive chimes of her harp-like instrument also stretched in the direction of seventies go-go and strung-out...

Sometimes a wind blows and nothing rises. No plastic bags which remain wantonly discarded on the sidewalk filled with rainwater and city sediment, no helium mysteries or daydream fantasies or premonitions of love. On his third album the South London artist JQ finds frolic instead in a seam of cultural detritus, from overheard conversations to YouTube makeup tutorials, advertisements...