artist: TETUZI AKIYAMA & TAKUJI KAWAI
title: Transition
label: Ftarri
country: Japan
format: CD
title: Transition
label: Ftarri
country: Japan
format: CD
Tetuzi Akiyama: acoustic guitar
Takuji Kawai: piano with preparations
Track list:
1. Continuation (4:00)
2. Superposition (3:08)
3. Confrontation (2:47)
4. Variation (10:45)
5. Transmission (4:37)
6. Realization (8:18)
7. Penetration (7:42)
8. Intervention (3:18)
"Tetuzi Akiyama, an improviser who plays both acoustic and electric guitar, performs in
Japan and other countries, including on yearly overseas tours. Takuji Kawai, born in 1963,
studied classical piano as a child and received a master's degree from the graduate school
of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He started improvising in the mid-1980s,
and in addition to improvised music he currently performs works by contemporary composers
like John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, and Yuji Takahashi. An outstanding
talent, Kawai is a composer as well as a pianist.
This CD consists of eight duo improvisations on acoustic guitar and piano, studio-recorded in
September 2009. Kawai uses preparations like bolts and thread on most of the tracks
(Akiyama uses a prepared guitar on one track and a slide guitar on another.). The two
acoustic instruments sometimes clash, sometimes sympathize, without ever losing the overall
tension and control." (Ftarri)
Takuji Kawai: piano with preparations
Track list:
1. Continuation (4:00)
2. Superposition (3:08)
3. Confrontation (2:47)
4. Variation (10:45)
5. Transmission (4:37)
6. Realization (8:18)
7. Penetration (7:42)
8. Intervention (3:18)
"Tetuzi Akiyama, an improviser who plays both acoustic and electric guitar, performs in
Japan and other countries, including on yearly overseas tours. Takuji Kawai, born in 1963,
studied classical piano as a child and received a master's degree from the graduate school
of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He started improvising in the mid-1980s,
and in addition to improvised music he currently performs works by contemporary composers
like John Cage, Morton Feldman, Giacinto Scelsi, and Yuji Takahashi. An outstanding
talent, Kawai is a composer as well as a pianist.
This CD consists of eight duo improvisations on acoustic guitar and piano, studio-recorded in
September 2009. Kawai uses preparations like bolts and thread on most of the tracks
(Akiyama uses a prepared guitar on one track and a slide guitar on another.). The two
acoustic instruments sometimes clash, sometimes sympathize, without ever losing the overall
tension and control." (Ftarri)