望月治孝, 川島誠 / 自由な風のように : Free Wind Mood (LP)

“During the past decade, a number of free music players in Japan have fiercely, with no compromise, continued to grapple with the questions that lay at the heart of the solo saxophone recital: how to tease and tear new formations out of the interface between human breath, human flesh and skeleton, and the instrument itself, its keys, holes, pads, reed, and brass body.
With Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, and committed players from the scene: Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima.
While there are elements of their playing that places them in a history of Japanese free blowing, from Kaoru Abe through Masayoshi Urabe to now, they both have a singular voice: Harutaka more stringent and tart, Kawashima, perhaps, more melancholy. Tellingly, they’ve both intersected with rock music and free sound ensembles, with Kawashima working alongside Nishizawa Naoto of EXIAS-J (Experimental Improvisers’ Association of Japan), while Harutaka has worked in a duo Tomoyuki Aoki of psych-rock group Up-Tight, and guitarist Kondo Hideaki (also of EXIAS-J).
But both of them have made their most massive strides forward with their own solo releases, Kawashima’s potent Homo Sacer one of the final releases on PSF, and Harutaka’s Pas LP and Through The Glass CD exploring new terrain for the nexus of breath and brass. Moving on from those releases, Free Wind Mood is a devastating listening experience, blood and guts on the floor as the players fully inhabit the architecture of the space, and of the self, and play like their lives depend on it.”

非西洋的な感覚の演奏で独自の世界観を放射する日本のアルト・サックス即興プレイヤー２名による独奏スプリットLP。望月治孝の演奏は歌とモノローグ、情念と沈静が行きつ戻りつする。世の儚さを憂うような、それでいて鉱物のような音片がcoolに投げ出されるようなパフォーマンス。そして川島誠は彼方の者に捧げる歌を真っ直ぐに放つ。放たれた歌は地を這い、中空に上昇して消える。メランコリック で空虚で、悲しみを湛えた演奏。美麗ジャケット帯付き。ポストカード３枚、英語とフランス語によるライナーノートなどが付属。限定275枚。

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曲目

A Harutaka Mochizuki– Untitled
B Kawashima Makoto– Untitled