Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Tetsu Saitoh
Naoki Kita

Six Trios Improvisations with Tetsu & Naoki

(Travessia, TRV-018) (Japan) (CD)

  1. (10:32)
  2. (12:14)
  3. (12:22)
  4. (5:36)
  5. (5:58)
  6. (8:35)
  7. (7:30)
  8. (3:53)

Tetsu Saitoh: contrabass
Naoki Kita: violin

Xavier Charles: clarinet (1)
Roger Turner: drums (2)
Shunichiro Hisada: kotsuzumi (3, 8), reading of a poem by Akira Saso (3), reading of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution (8)
Kazue Sawai: gogenkin (4, 5)
Tatsuya Nakatani: percussion (6)
Kazuo Imai: guitar (7)

Track 1 recorded live at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, July 31, 2014
Track 2 recorded live at Koendori Classics, Tokyo, February 15, 2015
Tracks 3 and 8 recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo, June 30, 2015
Tracks 4 and 5 recorded live at Studio Es, October 9, 2015
Track 6 recorded live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, January 19, 2015
Track 7 recorded live at Polepole-za, Tokyo, April 15, 2015
All recorded and mixed by Hayato Ichimura, except tracks 4 and 5, recorded by Tetsu Saitoh
Artwork by Yuji Kobayashi
Calligraphy of the Japnaese Constitution by Sogen Hirano
Design by Mai Saitoh

Released in March 2016