Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray | Tori Kudo石橋英子＆ダリン・グレイ｜工藤冬里

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SuperDeluxe presents

● Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray duo
● Tori Kudo piano solo
● dj Kayo

Artist Information:

Eiko Ishibashi

Eiko Ishibashi is a session musician, producer, and singer song writer who is based in Japan. Though mainly playing the piano, she is a multi-instrumentalist who is also able to play the drums, flute, and vibraphone. In recent years, she has been performing over 100 shows annually, sharing the stage with many artists such as Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata, Charlemagne Palestine, Seiichi Yamamoto, Gasper Claus, Oren Ambarchi, Glenn Kotche, Darling Gray and Merzbow. She has also recently had 2 European tours and has performed in the Fuji Rock Festival. Eiko Ishibashi started her musical career as a drummer, performing in several bands. She started playing the piano a few years back, when she began to score music for films and work as a solo musician. Since then, she has released 2 solo albums and the album “slip beneath the distant tree” under the name of Eiko Ishibashi + Tatsuya Yoshida. Her 2nd album “drifting devil” which featured artist such as Seiichi Yamamoto, had created buzz being critically appraised by both critics and fellow musicians, and was selected for the years best album list in Japanese magazines. Her first album in 4 years was released in July 2018 to wide acclaim.
eikoishibashi.net

Darin Gray

Composer / Improviser / Session Bassist, Darin Gray has composing for and performed on stage with Radiolab (NPR) and since joining Jeff Tweedy’s (from Wilco) TWEEDY in 2014 he has in played in 30 states, 16 countries, and has made multiple television appearances including The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Colbert Report, Austin City Limits, Conan, CBS This Morning and many others. Darin has played at numerous historic venues such as The Ryman in Nashville, The Palladium in London, and The Fillmore in San Fransisco. He is best known for his work with TWEEDY, Dazzling Killmen, Brise-Glace, On Fillmore (with Glenn Kotche of Wilco), and as Jim O’Rourke’s go to bassist for many years. He has composed for film, theater and dance; improvised with countless peers, played on over 100 releases, and has toured the Earth relentlessly for over 30 years.
daringraymusic.com

Tori Kudo

Japanese underground musician and potter. Conductor and band leader of Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
https://sea.ap.teacup.com/decablisty/

dj kayo

Release Information:

Eiko Ishibashi & Darin Gray – Ichida

Black Truffle present the release of Ichida, the first release from the duo of two important, yet often underappreciated musicians, Eiko Ishibashi and Darin Gray. Ishibashi is a singer-songwriter, keyboardist, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist, known in Japan both for her own elaborately conceptual solo albums and for her frequent collaborations with figures such as Jim O’Rourke, Merzbow, and Phew. Darin Gray is a bassist and multi-instrumentalist known for a multitude of collaborations (with O’Rourke and Loren Connors, among many others), for On Fillmore, his cinematic post-exotica project with Glenn Kotche, and as one half of Chikamorachi with Chris Corsano, one of the finest free-jazz rhythm sections around.

Presenting the entirely of a live set performed at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe in April 2016, the set begins as a duet for Ishibashi’s flute and Gray’s upright bass. Calmly melodic yet harmonically inventive, with shades of “spiritual jazz”, the pair’s acoustic ruminations are gradually joined by Ishibashi’s lush electronics, which randomly flicker between chords in a manner recalling the classic work of David Behrman. As the electronics build into a gloomy fog of slowly cycling loops, Gray lays his bass aside and turns to making strangely mournful interjections on a mouthpiece. Eventually Ishibashi moves to the piano, enveloping the audience in rippling pools of sustained, octave-doubled melody, provided by Gray’s bass with a fluid and dynamic foundation. For much of the second side, both Ishibashi and Gray turn to electronics, ultimately arriving in a bizarre space of melancholic arpeggios and random sputter and sizzle, oddly reminiscent of ’70s outsider prog acts like Wapassou. An uneasy coda of rich piano chords ends the set.

Captured in warm room ambience and beautifully mixed by Jim O’Rourke, Ichida is a rare combination of improvisational acumen and emotional directness, both adventurous and immediately accessible.

Cover pics by Jim O’Rourke.
Design by Stephen O’Malley.
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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