{"product_id":"harutaka-mochizuki-makoto-kawashima-free-wind-mood-lp","title":"Harutaka Mochizuki \/ Makoto Kawashima – Free Wind Mood [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDuring the past decade, a number of free music players in Japan have fiercely, with no compromise, continued to grapple with the questions that lay at the heart of the solo saxophone recital: how to tease and tear new formations out of the interface between human breath, human flesh and skeleton, and the instrument itself, its keys, holes, pads, reed, and brass body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_0\" class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand committed players from the scene: Harutaka\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"package_description_0\" class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMochizuki and Makoto Kawashima.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile there are elements of their playing that places them in a history of Japanese free blowing, from Kaoru Abe through Masayoshi Urabe to now, they both have a singular voice: Harutaka more stringent and tart, Kawashima, perhaps, more melancholy. Tellingly, they’ve both intersected with rock music and free sound ensembles, with Kawashima working alongside Nishizawa Naoto of EXIAS-J (Experimental Improvisers’ Association of Japan), while Harutaka has worked in a duo Tomoyuki Aoki of psych-rock group Up-Tight, and guitarist Kondo Hideaki (also of EXIAS-J).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut both of them have made their most massive strides forward with their own solo releases, Kawashima’s potent Homo Sacer one of the final releases on PSF, and Harutaka’s Pas LP and Through The Glass CD exploring new terrain for the nexus of breath and brass. Moving on from those releases, Free Wind Mood is a devastating listening experience, blood and guts on the floor as the players fully inhabit the architecture of the space, and of the self, and play like their lives depend on it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn'Archives, 2018\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"naturestripstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43550428397809,"sku":"An'14","price":46.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/8859\/0065\/products\/mochizukikawashima_freewindmood.jpg?v=1671771093","url":"https:\/\/naturestripstore.myshopify.com\/products\/harutaka-mochizuki-makoto-kawashima-free-wind-mood-lp","provider":"naturestripstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}