Yamasaki Ami, Ishikawa Ko, Nakagawa Kayoko

#3919: With Composer Mamoru Fujieda

New Sounds | Jan 1, 2018

For this New Sounds, hear works both old and new with a ritual aspect by Japanese post-minimal composer Mamoru Fujieda. Some of the works contain text which comes from the Manyoshu (Ten Thousand Leaves), the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled during the Nara period. Some are from Fujieda's opus, "Patterns of Plants," based on the readings of the electrical activity in living plants.  

This live session features Ko Ishikawa, master player of the sho (ancient Japanese mouth organ), Kayoko Nakagawa on koto, and vocalist Ami Yamasaki, as well as the sounds of fermenting shochu (Japan’s distilled alcohol – almost akin to vodka), a highly sacred beverage in Japanese mythology.

PROGRAM #3919, with Mamoru Fujieda (First Aired 11-10-2016)   

ARTIST: Mamoru Fujieda
WORK: Patterns of Plants (two violas da gamba), excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Mamoru Fujieda:  Patterns of Plants
SOURCE: Tzadik 7025
INFO: tzadik.com

ARTIST: Sarah Cahill
WORK: Patterns of Plants The Twentieth Collection (“Begonia in My Life”) [4:59]
RECORDING: Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns Of Plants 
SOURCE: Pinna Records
INFO: pinnarecords.com

ARTIST: Ko Ishikawa, sho
WORK: Banshiki cho no choshi [4:26]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Ko Ishikawa, sho
WORK: Fujieda: Kiyomi (“Pure beauty”) [4:15]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Kayoko Nakagawa, koto
WORK: Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns Of Plants  -Moon Reading [4:05]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Kayoko Nakagawa, koto / Ko Ishikawa, sho
WORK: Improvisation [4:12]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Ami Yamasaki, voice /Kayoko Nakagawa, koto / Ko Ishikawa, sho 
Mamoru Fujieda, fermenting shochu sounds
WORK: Improvisation [4:12]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE/INFO: This performance not commercially available.

ARTIST: Mamoru Fujieda
WORK: Patterns of Plants: The Second Collection, Pattern 8 , Pattern 5 [6:21]
RECORDING: Mamoru Fujieda:  Patterns of Plants
SOURCE: Tzadik 7025
INFO: tzadik.com

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