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| artist.....: Satoko Fujii Ma Do |
| vibe/s.....: Heat Wave |
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| year.......: 2008 |
| archiveisms: Not Two Records |
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| source.....: CDDA |
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| moodswing..: Jazz |
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| releasesize: 77,8 MB |
| tracks.....: 09 |
| length.....: 55:37 min |
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| encoder....: Lame 3.97 (-V2 --Vbr-New) |
| quality....: avg. 193kbps |
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| Satoko Fujii - Piano |
| Natsuki Tamura - Trumpet |
| Norikatsu Koreyasu - Bass |
| Akira Horikoshi - Drums |
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| "As her fiftieth birthday nears, pianist Satoko |
| Fujii continues to release recordings at a |
| furious pace. However, despite always extending |
| her compositional and improvisational language, |
| her musical personality remains recognizable by |
| its unique mixture of melody, rhythm, freedom and |
| structure. |
| An amazing release, Heat Wave presents a new band |
| named the Ma-Do Quartet, consisting of players |
| from other bands which Fujii has played in or |
| ledùtrumpeter Natuski Tamura, Fujii's husband and |
| musical collaborator; bassist Norikatsu Koreyasu, |
| a member of Tamura's band Gato Libre; and drummer |
| Akira Horikoshi, a member of Fujii's Tokyo Big |
| Band. |
| This band and its music sounds like a conscious |
| summation of Fujii's most recent efforts in both |
| composition and performance. Elegantly fused are |
| the qualities of Fujii's other Japanese quartet, |
| in its power and intensity; her Junk Box trio |
| with Tamura and percussionist John Hollenbeck, in |
| its use of unconventional compositions requiring |
| the musicians to give them import; her American |
| trio with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Jim |
| Black, for their pure improvisatory prowess; and |
| Tamura's Gato Libre, for its delightfully |
| surprising and touching melodies. |
| This synthesis sounds entirely natural, and is |
| represented by the quartet's name of "ma-do," |
| which means "window" in Japanese, with "ma" also |
| meaning the "silence between the notes." What |
| Fujii is getting at with this name is not only |
| that this music "opens to the outside," but also |
| that listeners can see its insides, as the |
| players negotiate the notation and react to it. |
| This music has an exquisite liveliness. It |
| literally breathes, changing shape, texture and |
| color continuously while it develops. The |
| excitement created is palpable as the quartet |
| reacts to what is written, with the result being |
| three-dimensional structures of avant-garde |
| classical grace that mutate, turning on a dime |
| into heavy funk or literally exploding. |
| While Fujii relates that she is writing more and |
| more, and that she needed musicians who could |
| work from a written score, the only obviously |
| composed parts here are those when a difficult |
| line is played in unison. The gallery of sounds |
| that Fujii imagined and scored is astounding. She |
| takes great advantage not only of Tamura's |
| advanced techniques of moans and screams, but |
| also his softer, Gato Libre side. Koreyasu and |
| Horikoshi are locomotives one second, only to |
| drop to shimmering cymbals and arco groans at |
| another. |
| Around, under, and through everything, Fujii |
| displays her enormous range of piano playing, |
| from the ferocious to the picturesque. She also |
| uses the inside of the piano extensively, |
| producing sounds that blend exceedingly well with |
| Tamura and the others, as in a section near the |
| end of "Beyond The Horizon." |
| Aurally stunning, complex and yet deeply and |
| emotionally involving, Heat Wave is a new high |
| for Fujii. She has created, and continues to |
| extend, her own sound world." |
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| 01 Heat Wave 05:32 |
| 02 Beyond The Horizon 09:00 |
| 03 Mosaic 07:22 |
| 04 Ring A Bell 07:00 |
| 05 Tornado 06:45 |
| 06 The Squall In The Sahara 07:25 |
| 07 Amoeba 05:02 |
| 08 Spiral Staircase 04:27 |
| 09 To The Skies 03:04 |
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