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Title:  Quartet Artist:  Nikos Veliotis, Taku Sugimoto, Kazushige Kinoshita, Taku Unami Various Artists Label:  Hibari Music Format:  CD Price:  € 13.90   Mp3 samples: none

Title Description:
nikos veliotis : cello
taku sugimoto : acoustic guitar, e-bow
kazushige kinoshita : violin
taku unami : contraguitar

comment from david grubbs

I was there, and this is exactly how it went down.

But how does it come back in recorded form? This isn?ft how it went down.

Taku Sugimoto?fs piece remains an exceedingly thin strip of single notesswallowed by the near-silence of Kid Ailack. The near-silence that inrecorded form now bristles with activity. I spent much of the concerttrying to imagine a chord or simultaneous playing being added to Sugimoto?fsmusic. The mental exercise failed?it wouldn?ft have been the same music, thesame rigorously horizontal motion through each listener?fs increasinglysubjective sense of time. (I studied the other listeners; it waseasy--their eyes were closed.) In recorded form, I don?ft have to imaginethis music containing counterpoint?there it is, in the interplay ofKazushige Kinoshita?fs scratchy violin and the dulled roar of trafficoutside.

Nikos Veliotis?fs "acedghd" by contrast makes solo performance multiplethrough his cello technique. It?fs such a lovely unfolding of sound, suchthe sequence of delicate textures, such the sustained release. It?fs everybit as effective in recorded form. Why is that? The experiences come toseem more and more different from one another. The recorded version isstripped of the intensity of the concert?fs visual austerity. My apartmentis too much of a mess to add to the music?fs strictness, its straitenedcircumstances. In recorded form, the sound comes out of nowhere, returns .. . nowhere . . . not returns . . . ceases.

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