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INTAKT RECORDS

HOKUSAI

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Details

Artist
TAKASE, AKI / SCHLIPPENBACH, ALEXANDER VON
Format
CD
Label
INTAKT RECORDS
Released
Jun 21, 2019
Catalog #
ITK327.2
UPC
7640120193270

About

Aki Takase, the Berlin-based pianist, is one of the great personalities of modern jazz. Moments of freedom, form and humour characterize this stylistically versatile avant-gardist, the stubborn virtuoso who toys with jazz traditions. In the year of her 70th birthday, Aki Takase was honoured with The Berlin Jazz Prize. Recorded over two days at the Sendesaal Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the album includes some pieces captured live during the award ceremony, and some recorded in a studio setting in the same historic room. The piece Bach Factory features Alexander von Schlippenbach as a guest and the Japanese author Yoko Tawada appears on Hokahoka Hokosai. Aki Takase is inspired by the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai. For Aki Takase, Hokusai was a hugely passionate and brilliant artist with an experimental mind who lived only with and for his paintings. "Hokusai showed so many directions in painting, which is why I wanted to convey various colours in improvisation. Music is like a colour. For me, red and light-blue are gentle colours. These were the colours that I felt. That's my internal landscape. I feel a strong connection to Hokusai. "

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Crane 04:55
    Track
    1
    Title
    Crane
    Duration
    04:55
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  2. 2 Hokusais meer 04:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Hokusais meer
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  3. 3 Bach Factory 04:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    Bach Factory
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase, Alexander von Schlippenbach
  4. 4 Live in Dream 03:43
    Track
    4
    Title
    Live in Dream
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  5. 5 Nihon Bridge in Edo 03:07
    Track
    5
    Title
    Nihon Bridge in Edo
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  6. 6 Hokusai Manga 02:39
    Track
    6
    Title
    Hokusai Manga
    Duration
    02:39
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  7. 7 Sketch of Spring 02:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    Sketch of Spring
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  8. 8 Studies of Gesture 02:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    Studies of Gesture
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  9. 9 Cherry 08:34
    Track
    9
    Title
    Cherry
    Duration
    08:34
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  10. 10 Silent Landscape 05:04
    Track
    10
    Title
    Silent Landscape
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  11. 11 Dr. Beat 04:20
    Track
    11
    Title
    Dr. Beat
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase
  12. 12 Hokahoka hokusai 02:13
    Track
    12
    Title
    Hokahoka hokusai
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Aki Takase
    Performer
    Aki Takase, Yoko Tawada