TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO / KATSUYOSHI KOU / YOSHIO OTANI / LOL COXHILL / STEVE BERESFORD / JOHN RUSSELL /

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TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO / KATSUYOSHI KOU / YOSHIO OTANI / LOL COXHILL / STEVE BERESFORD / JOHN RUSSELL / JOHN EDWARDS

Three great young Japanese musicians will be joined by good old London improvisers. This is a rare occasion to witness the wonderful talents from Tokyo. Don’t miss!

“ Tatsuhisa is one of the most exciting young drummers in Japan at the moment.“ - According to Otomo Yoshihide on Feb. 2010

Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, born on Oct 25, 1982, in Yamaguchi, Japan, is a pure acoustic drummer, not an electric drummer. He plays primarily improvised music, and participates in a variety of bands, projects, supporting singers, and has produced multiple recordings.

Yamamoto’s solo acoustic performance succeeds in combining dynamism, melodicism and polyrhythm, fusing overwhelming volume with delicate technique.

Yamamoto has also collaborated with artists such as Otomo Yoshihide, Jim O'Rourke, Sachiko M, Seiichi Yamamoto (ex.boredoms), Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata, Daisuke Takaoka, Makoto Kawabata (AcidMotherTemple), Munehiro Narita(HIGHRISE), Mitsuru Tabata(ZENI-GEVA/AMT&TCI), Masahiko Sato, Yuji Takahashi, Gianni Gebbia, Ned Rothenberg, Daniele Camalda, Alan Silva, and many others.

Yamamoto’s main projects are SSW, a duo with “Eiko Ishibashi”; “NATSUMEN”, a band lead by AxSxE; acoustic & synthesized drums duo with Muneomi Senju (ex.Boredoms); “Plus Minus Zero”a live electronica & psychedelic prog jam trio with Yuji Katsui (ROVO) and marron a.k.a. dubmarronics; “FirstMeeting,” an acoustic noise improvisation Quartet with Natsuki Tamura, Satoko Fujii, and Kelly Churko; “Ohanami,” a unit with Yoshio Machida on the steelpan; as well as recordings with the Kahimi Karie band featuring Otomo Yoshihide and Jim O'Rourke. Recently he has been performing regularly with Jim O'Rourke. He participates in, and organizes multiple projects around Tokyo.

LINKS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WECSU0ZtrLo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrHTHkUnCKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIRrRVdJJTY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSgys5Mp6c&feature=related

Kou Katsuyoshi

Kou Katsuyoshi is a Korean guitar player who was born in Tokyo, 1983. Kou plays guitar improvisation, although he defines himself not as a musician. He rather tries to question the notion of "music" itself through his guitar improvisation, and he mentions that his goal is to find the ideal form of sound all before the readymade notion of so-called music. He have shared stage with Sabu Toyozumi, John Russell, Toshiji Mikawa (Incapacitants, HIJO-KAIDAN), Carl Stone, and many others.

LINK
http://www.katsuyoshi-kou.net/

Yoshio Otani works with Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many others.
LINK
http://www.ootany.com/profile

John Russell

Radical improvising guitarist John Russell has, since around 1977, concentrated exclusively on acoustic guitars. He organises the monthly Mopomoso concerts - the longest running series on the London improvising scene. His current groups include trios with Evan Parker & John Edwards, and with Michel Doneda & Roger Turner.

Steve Beresford has played and composed a wide range of music on both pianos and electronics, from free improvisation to more commercial styles. Moving to London in 1974, he played in Derek Bailey’s Company, in the group Alterations with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack and in The Three Pullovers with Nigel Coombes and Roger Smith. Beresford has continued to play free improvisation with a large number of prominent musicians, including Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn and Han Bennink. He has collaborated with Christian Marclay in various ways for many years, and he has a new CD on Emanem – Check For Monsters – with Peter Evans and Okkyung Lee.

Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill (born 19 September 1932, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England) is a free improvising saxophonist and raconteur. He plays the soprano or sopranino saxophone.

Coxhill has collaborated with other musicians including Kevin Ayers, Steve Miller (of Caravan), Mike Oldfield, Morgan Fisher (of Mott the Hoople), Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath, The Dedication Orchestra, Django Bates, The Damned, Hugh Metcalfe, Derek Bailey and performance art group Welfare State.

Coxhill was compere and occasional performer at the Bracknell Jazz Festival, and a raconteur as well as a musician; indeed it was following a performance at Bracknell that he recorded the monologue Murder in the Air.

John Edwards



Since taking up the double bass in 1987 and playing with the Pointy Birds and the Cholomondeleys dance company he went on to play with B Shops for the Poor, The Honkies and GOD as well as busking in the street and composing and performing music theatre with The Great Explorers. Since the early 1990s he has built a reputation as one of the finest, and most in demand bass players currently active on the British and European improv/ jazz and New music scenes- a first choice for musicians such as Evan Parker, Louis Moholo, Veryan Weston, Charles Hayward and Spring Heel Jack- Other groups include BRUISE and the Obliquity trio with Alan Wilkinson and Noble.



A solo double bass cd ‘VOLUME’ was released in 2008 on the PSI label.



LINKS

http://www.myspace.com/wilkinsonedwardsnoble

http://www.myspace.com/nobleedwardsward