{"id":56393,"date":"2024-04-09T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56393"},"modified":"2024-04-09T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T09:28:46","slug":"tori-kudo-3c123-lp-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=56393","title":{"rendered":"Tori Kudo & 3C123 LP (vinyl)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An\u2019archives are pleased to announce the release of a self-titled album by Tori Kudo & 3C123. A reissue of a cassette that was originally released on Uramado in 2020, this is the first time this live session has appeared on vinyl. The performance, featuring Kudo on piano and 3C123 on clarinet, was recorded on October 18, 2009, at the Uramado venue in Shinjuku. A beautiful and quixotic forty-minute set, it reconnects both Kudo and 3C123 with various musical histories, including those of classical composition and free improvisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance documented on Tori Kudo & 3C123 is a curious one. While they both appear to slip into improvised ruminations at times, for the most part, Kudo performs pieces by Erik Satie on the piano, over which 3C123 teases an excoriating stream of improvisation from the clarinet. His playing here is wild in its poetry: sometimes lushly nestling alongside Satie\u2019s melodies, elsewhere loosing Ayler-esque squalls from the instrument, it\u2019s a bravura performance that is matched, in an indirect manner, by the poise and pacing of Kudo\u2019s generous, fluent recital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about the thinking behind the performance documented here, Kudo explains by describing the historical juxtaposition of Satie with Takehisa Kosugi\u2019s improvised violin as \u201can essence of the Japanese art of collective improvisation.\u201d The playing here, as within Japanese collective improvisation, is about sitting \u2018alongside\u2019 each other, not necessarily in direct (or even indirect) reference, but rather sharing the space; \u201cjust being there together,\u201d Kudo says, and letting go of the need for performers to engage in interplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tori Kudo & 3C123 is certainly part of that tradition, and this is where its curious poetry resides; in that \u2018third space\u2019 that sits in between, but not directly connecting, the two performers. Kudo makes an analogy with Fluxus, which is appropriate. But you can also hear their shared history here, somehow, as Kudo and 3C123 have known each other since the eighties, when they shared a house in Kunitachi City, Tokyo. Their musical paths have been multiple \u2013 Kudo, of course, best known perhaps for his Maher Shalal Hash Baz ensemble; 3C123 as a member of Vedda Music Workshop, and with other Japanese musicians like Koichiro Watanabe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a lovely album that\u2019s as mystifying as it is direct and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Tori Kudo & 3C123<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher: An’archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An\u2019archives are pleased to announce the release of a self-titled album by Tori Kudo & 3C123. A reissue of a cassette that was originally released on Uramado in 2020, this is the first time this live session has appeared on vinyl. The performance, featuring Kudo on piano and 3C123 on clarinet, was recorded on October […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,4774],"tags":[9940,9960,9938,9939,9953,9935],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56399,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56393\/revisions\/56399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}