Karin Nakagawa, Hans Tutzer & Paolino Dalla Porta – Tamayura (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:00 minutes | 450 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Losen Records
Karin Nakagawa from Yokohama (Japan) and Hans Tutzer from Bolzano (Italy) first met in the summer of 2014 at an international workshop for artists and musicians in South Tyrol. The one-ofa-kind resonance created by a mix of soprano saxophone, koto, and vocals—tied together with a remarkable musical affinity—soon led to numerous collaborative works and concerts.
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Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa – Trees Of Light (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:38 minutes | 520 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Anders Jormin’s new Swedish-Japanese project returns the highly distinctive voice and fiddle of Lena Willemark to ECM (her first appearance on the label in more than a decade), and introduces koto player Karin Nakagawa. In their collaborative music the Japanese classical tradition and the stark, archaic sounds of the koto, allied to Jormin’s muscular bass improvisations, form a unique context for Lena’s sung poems, delivered in her native Älvdals-dialect. Traditions and non-idiomatic improvising are cross-referenced, and new paths are opened up.
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