Oimacta

CD
Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-519
Released on July 25, 2004
Purchase price in Japan: 2,000 yen (tax not included)
(For purchase outside of Japan, prices vary.)

• Recorded by Chris Townend at BJB Studios, Sydney on 24th July 2002
• Mixing and mastering by Martin Ng at araça azul and BJB, Sydney
• Packaged in a cardboard jacket
• Design and artwork by Keiko Matsunaga

1. Kyua Scattered (12:28)
2. Silver-Brown (10:29)
3. Lost Angels (for Henry Flynt) (10:58)
4. Dolphin Hotel (9:42)
   
   mp3 excerpt: track 1

Tetuzi Akiyama: acoustic guitar
Martin Ng: turntables

Tetuzi Akiyama has attracted tremendous interest on the Japanese and international improvised music scenes. In addition to performing many times in Japan, Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand, he's been releasing a steady stream of solo and group recordings on these countries' labels. Oimacta, a duo album he recorded in a Sydney studio with Martin Ng (turntable feedback), promises to become one of his most widely recognized works. Akiyama's instrument here is the acoustic guitar. Ng, who lived in Sydney at the time of recording, is known for his duo album with Sydney guitarist Oren Ambarchi, and for his participation, along with Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide, in the "Turntable Hell" UK tour of May '02. If you didn't know beforehand what instruments the musicians were playing on these four tracks, you'd be hard put to identify the sources of their sound. Its rich colors, and the mysterious atmosphere it evokes, are awe-inspiring.

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