respect, by Tetuzi Akiyama + Jeff Gburek

respect

by Tetuzi Akiyama + Jeff Gburek

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Uncompressed audio in a digipak with original photos by Karolina Ossowska and poetry by Akiyama & Gburek.

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	1.	respect 1 06:19
	2.	respect 2 10:25
	3.	respect 3 08:40
	4.	respect 4 06:39

about

These recorded improvisations from 2010 are a portrait of an evolving musical relationship between two well-traveled musicians, one that began in Berlin in 2005 (documented on Lee Kwang's Herbal Records imprint), spanning two small tours in Germany and most recently renewed in Poland in 2008 and 2010 in Warsaw and Poznan). "Respect" captures quiet guitars and electronics interacting over a bed of silence, an intimate post-Feldman environment where breathing and room sound permeate the texture. The east/west hybrid interests of both players seem to inform the subtle harmonic framework and the hypnotic flow of events. Jeff Gburek (Poland) recalls that between recorded segments the duo discussed moods/imagery, undetermined but subliminal suggestions. "In the middle of nowhere, the desert..." was an idea for the second track, which sparked Gburek's “strong associative imagination with the New Mexico desert landscape and my sounds; because much of my sound vocabulary for that instrument set-up was developed while I was living in New Mexico.” Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan) had also been visiting New Mexico a few months before the recording, his slide guitar on that track perhaps redolent of the southwestern US or as equally his own signature of Setagaya section of Tokyo. Overall these four tracks invite the listener into a unified and compelling experience, a meeting of musical presences enabled by patience and a willingness to explore. The digipack CD includes two poems written by the players not as determining "statements" but rather reflections on overall conditions, past, present, futurological. Photography by Karolina Ossowska-Gburek of wintry desolation in Poland underscores the sonic landscapes. Recorded at Radio Afera Studio, Poznan, Poland with the kind assistance of Patryk Lychota.

[SpecT 18]

Akiyama: www.japanimprov.com/takiyama
Gburek: www.futurevessel.com/orphansound

credits

released 05 January 2013
Recorded at Radio Afera Studio, Poznan, Poland.

Tetuzi Akiyama -- acoustic guitar
Jeff Gburek -- prepared/slide guitar/electronics/acoustic guitar

Thanks to Patryk Lichota.
Photos: Karolina Ossowska

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