Akira Sakata – The Tale of the Heike [2LP]

"Akira Sakata, legendary Japanese jazz musician since the early 70s (Yosuke Yamashita Trio, Akira Sakata Trio) and ocean-biologist, tours and records with The Thing, Jim O’Rourke, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Chikamorachi, etc.

The TALE OF THE HEIKE is an intense solo-performance that we can happily release on vinyl for the first time!

The Tale of The Heike CD (2011) and DVD (2013) were released on doubtmusic, Japan.

CD: recorded at GOK Sound, Kichijoji, August 2011  by Yoshiaki Kondo
DVD: recorded by Jim O’Rourke, Live at Pit-Inn, 24th June 2012

For the vinyl version some dvd-pieces (8-11) from the live-performance as an ensemble were used as bonus-tracks.

Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: drums, percussion
Jim O'Rourke: guitar, vocals
Chizuru Ishii: percussion, taiko, vocals
Yumiko Tanaka: shamisen, reading

Akira Sakata: reading, voices, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, bells"

Trost, 2016