Atody Man, by Kaze

Atody Man

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1.	Hypnotique Sympathie 10:39	info
2.	Moving 17:29	info
3.	Méta-Blizzard 07:42	info
4.	Morning Glow 09:48	info
5.	Inspiration 2 14:39	info
6.	Atody Man 08:57	info

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On Atody Man, Kaze, the cooperative quartet featuring Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, French trumpeter Christian Pruvost and drummer Peter Orins, continues one of the most captivating ongoing musical conversations in jazz. As they enter their eighth year together, they find themselves enjoying a group rapport that few other bands share. Using minimal yet distinctive compositional frameworks from each band member, they engage in deep musical exchanges full of surprise and wit. It’s almost as if they were talking to one another without words.

“Yes, we do talk in music,” Fujii says of the quartet. “Natsuki and I cannot speak French and Peter and Christian don't speak Japanese, but we can talk in music. This always amazes me!”

“The compositions have always been an excuse for the improvisation,” says drummer Orins. “We are very different in the way we write music, but I think that we compose to create a place to communicate with each other.”

Their musical communication is rich with a huge vocabulary of sounds and historical and stylistic references, all freely called upon and used in stunning dialogues among master musicians. For instance, the trumpeters playfully spar to comic effect on Fujii’s “Moving” but begin Orins’s “Hypnotique Sympathie” with carefully controlled and modulated long tones that establish a somber ritualistic atmosphere. (Pruvost is heard on the right, Tamura on the left throughout the album.) Fujii is equally mercurial, waxing Chopinesque toward the end of “Hypnotique Sympathie,” then playing spare, lyrical lines on “Inspiration 2,” and rhythmically engaged in a percussive duet with Orins on “Moving.” Orins is a constant source of surprise and inspiration throughout, orchestrating textures, prodding and driving, or adding sparse rhythms as the interplay among his bandmates requires. On this album, they have broadened the music with more use of space and silence than on previous discs.

The collective improvisations display some of the deepest communication among the quartet on the album. They seem to finish each other’s thought’s on “Meta-Blizzard,” in a richly textured four-way conversation that veers from abstract sound to melodic phrases and from languid tempo to high energy with graceful ease. The quiet “Atody Man” (Malagasy for “egg man”) features a hushed but intense conversation among all four players. The concentrated listening, familiarity bred of several years of working together, and the seamless use of both conventional and extended techniques give all of Kaze’s music an exhilarating sense of freedom.

Over the course of three previous quartet releases, plus June (HeliX 2017), an album by an extended sextet version called Trouble Kaze, and a guest appearance with Fujii’s Orchestra Tokyo’s Peace (Libra 2016), Kaze continues to amaze listeners with evolving and emotionally deeper music. “I think we all feel more and more free the longer we play together,” says Orins, “We always push our own limits, and play more and more in the present.”

“I have to say, I have so much fun playing compositions by Peter, Christian, and Natuski, which are totally different from mine,” says Fujii. “This group inspires me so much.”

credits

released February 23, 2018

Recorded on June 24 - 2017 at Firehouse 12 - Warehouse Studio
(New Haven - USA) by Nick Lloyd.
Mix and Edit by Peter Orins.
CD-Master by Philippe Tessier du Cros (Paris - F).
Photo and graphic design by Peter Orins.
Produced by Circum-Disc and Libra-Records.

Special thanks to : Cem Zafir, Donna Akrey, Peter Burton, Mauro Pezzente, Dave Rempis, Kevin Reilly, Rocco Somazzi, Jack Eastman,
Mai Kawai, Kumiko Sasaki, Rainbow Robert, Ken Pickering, Ann Braithwaite, Céline Liagre, Lise Cazé, Marion Sarels, Benjamin Berthe, Linda Orins, Estelle Coquerel

More infos : satokofujii.com • natsukitamura.com • peterorins.com
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Kaze Lille, France

Melodic, abstract, mysterious, beautiful, and confrontational, Kaze plays free jazz at its most creative and powerful.

Satoko Fujii : piano, Nastuki Tamura & Christian Pruvost : trumpet, Peter Orins : drums

discography

Unwritten

Feb 2024
Crustal Movement

Mar 2023
Sand Storm

Sep 2020
Atody Man

Feb 2018
June

Mar 2017
Uminari

Apr 2015
Tornado

Jun 2013
Rafale

Sep 2011

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