Mahobin (Satoko Fujii, Lotte Anker, Tamura Natsuki, Ikue Mori) - Live at Big Apple in Kobe (2018) {Libra Records 204-050}
Mahobin (Satoko Fujii, Lotte Anker, Tamura Natsuki, Ikue Mori) - Live at Big Apple in Kobe (2018) {Libra Records 204-050}
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© 2018 Libra Records | 204-050
Jazz / Free Improvisation / Abstract
Live at Big Apple in Kobe captures a riveting, wildly unpredictable live performance by Mahobin, a formidable quartet of improvisers gathered together for the first time by pianist-composer Satoko Fujii. The recording is the eighth of Fujii’s yearlong birthday celebration which has her releasing a new CD every month. Joining her on this recording are trumpeter Natsuki Tamura, Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker, and laptop musician Ikue Mori. Performing without any compositions or pre-arranged plan, the quartet improvises a thrilling album of music laced with brilliant colors, compelling rhythms, and melodic beauty balanced with otherworldly abstraction.
Although they had never before performed as a group, the members of Mahobin have worked together in other formats. Mori and Fujii collaborated for the first time in 2013 during Fujii’s residency at The Stone. Then in 2016, Fujii and Anker joined Mori at her Stone residency. Anker later joined Fujii and Tamura for a 2017 tour of Japan. This year, Fujii decided the time was right for them to converge in one group to see what might emerge.
Mori came up with the band’s unusual name. “Mahobin” is a Japanese word for “thermos,” but it literally means “magic bottle.” They all loved the name. “It’s nice to have a band name with the word ‘magic’ in it,” Fujii says, “and I like it because a thermos keeps everything in it hot for a long time.”
And the music does stay hot for long stretches during the two improvisations that comprise the CD. “Rainbow Elephant” slowly wends its way through passage after passage of astonishing sounds, following a slowly evolving path. There’s a continuous weave of sound—sparkling electronics; saxophone clicks and cries; textured, breathy drones on the trumpet; and subtle prepared piano timbres. The sound expands and contracts, dense one moment, open and airy the next. Fujii plays a long melodic arc with scintillating sounds dancing underneath. Later, Anker starts her own extended melody, supported and embellished by the others. “Yellow Sky” grows more directly from soft electronic flutters and breathy tones on saxophone and trumpet to become progressively darker and more agitated with hot raspy trumpet, rumbling piano, clattering electronics, and wailing saxophone. The album is one of the most sustained abstract performances in the Fujii discography.
Mahobin (Satoko Fujii, Lotte Anker, Tamura Natsuki, Ikue Mori) - Live at Big Apple in Kobe (2018) {Libra Records 204-050}
Personnel
Lotte Anker, sax
Natsuki Tamura, trumpet
Satoko Fujii, piano
Ikue Mori, electronics
Tracks
01. Rainbow Elephant
02. Yellow Sky
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Mahobin (Satoko Fujii, Lotte Anker, Tamura Natsuki, Ikue Mori) - Live at Big Apple in Kobe (2018) {Libra Records 204-050}
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