a r t i s t : Michiyo-Flaten-Nilssen-Love
t i t l e : Live At Superdeluxe
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Bomba
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : May/2007
t r a c k s : 04
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 69,9 MB
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All music by Michiyo Yagi, Ingebrigt Hσker Flaten, and Paal
Nilssen-Love except "Monsoon" and "Ai no Corrida," by Michiyo
Yagi
Michiyo Yagi: electroacoustic 21- and 17-string kotos
Ingebrigt Hσker Flaten: contrabass, electronics
Paal Nilssen-Love: drums
Recorded and mixed live to 2-track by Shigetake Ao at Super
Deluxe, Tokyo, April 8, 2005
Mastered by Toru Kotetsu at JVC Mastering Center
Design by Shinsuke Yamada
Photos by Big Brother Balboa and Mizuho Yabe
Produced by Mark E. Rappaport
Includes liner notes by Mizuho Yabe (in Japanese) and Mark E.
Rappaport (in English)
Released in July 2006
This live album was recorded at the Tokyo club SuperDeluxe in
April 2005 and teams Yagi with the super-tight Norwegian
rhythm team of Ingebrigt Hσker Flaten, bass, and Paal Nilssen
-Love, drums, as the Subatomic Supertrio. The formidable
Flaten and Nilssen-Love play in the power trios The Thing,
with Swedish saxophone hero Mats Gustafsson, and Scorch Trio,
with Finnish-American guitarist Raoul Bj÷rkenheim, as well as
in the Norwegian-Swedish quintet Atomic. The disc demonstrates
Yagi's growing interest in the Norwegian jazz community,
following her collaborations with keyboard player Bugge
Wesseltoft, the power trio MZN3, and even hardanger violin
player Knut Buen.
The performance begins with two Yagi compositions, ôMonsoonö
and ôAi No Corrida,ö segued together. Flaten and Nilssen-Love
sketch a spacious rhythmic pattern over Yagi's fierce
strumming and bowing. The dense interplay keeps on building
while the three musicians venture all over their instruments.
Nilssen-Love opens and closes the piece; he offers condensed
rumbles with bells and cymbals and tapping of the skins, and
these lead Yagi into a dreamy coda. The second piece, ôBow
Derek,ö is much more abstract and is a tribute to the late
guitarist Derek Bailey. Yagi and Flatenùand even Nilssen-
Flateùuse bows to produce wonderfully eerie and alien sounds
from their instruments. The atmospheric soundscape is
disturbed by an occasional cymbal or drum impact, spare
fingering of the koto strings, and Flaten's electronic
effects, and develops a haunting and ethereal melody statement
led by Yagi.
The third piece, ôBlσ By Blσ,ö returns to a more intense mode.
Nilssen-Love's assorted heaps of sound are in perfect sync
with the open-ended time keeping of Flaten, whose low end
storms nicely mirror Yagi's dark and passionate waves of
sound. The last piece, ôStavanger Blues,ö is another example
of how the rich languages of these excellent musicians can
meet, without compromising their individual essences and
without overpowering each other. Flaten and Nilssen-Love swirl
around Yagi and offer imaginative, spacious but solid rhythmic
textures for her extended koto workouts.
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01-Intro/Monsoon/Ai no Corrida [14:44]
02-Bow Derek [07:51]
03-Bla by Bla [12:56]
04-Stavanger Banger [13:54]
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49:25 min