artist: AKIO SUZUKI & DAVID TOOP
title: Breath Taking
label: Confront
country: UK
format: CD
title: Breath Taking
label: Confront
country: UK
format: CD
"Since an appearance at Derek Bailey’s Company Week in the late 1970s, Suzuki’
s visits to the UK have been few. The day after his British Museum show he
played an improvised duo with David Toop at the Sound 323 record shop in
Highgate. This was a delicate, probing set, in which Suzuki got much mileage
from a polished brass plate, spun, scraped and hit. Toop meanwhile moved from
crackling dried flower stalks to dog whistles, and embarked on adventures in
feedback oozing from a microphone beneath a small drum. Some of this was so
quiet as to blend perfectly with a woman’s voice, apparently singing in the bath,
audible from next door. ...most memorable were some less restrained moments
of curious beauty, when flutes of stone and bamboo engaged with percussive
textures. ...exquisitely earthy." (Clive Bell - The Wire)
s visits to the UK have been few. The day after his British Museum show he
played an improvised duo with David Toop at the Sound 323 record shop in
Highgate. This was a delicate, probing set, in which Suzuki got much mileage
from a polished brass plate, spun, scraped and hit. Toop meanwhile moved from
crackling dried flower stalks to dog whistles, and embarked on adventures in
feedback oozing from a microphone beneath a small drum. Some of this was so
quiet as to blend perfectly with a woman’s voice, apparently singing in the bath,
audible from next door. ...most memorable were some less restrained moments
of curious beauty, when flutes of stone and bamboo engaged with percussive
textures. ...exquisitely earthy." (Clive Bell - The Wire)