Marginal Consort is a Japanese collective/
free improvisation group made of sound and visual artists, who have played one concert annually since 1997. The group originally grew out of the East Bionic Symphonia, who recorded one album in 1976. The members are
Kazuo Imai is a Tokyo-based guitarist who plays in a rigorous and original free improvisation idiom. His music joins the rigour and texture of contemporary classical with the passion of free jazz. He has played with many Western and Japanese improvisers, inc ...
(今井和雄),
Yasushi Ozawa
(1958February 2, 2008) was a Japanese musician and sound engineer, best known as the bassist in Keiji Haino's rock group Fushitsusha. He was also a member of the free improvisation group Marginal Consort, and in the past he played with East Bion ...
(小沢靖) (also a member of
Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majo ...
),
Tomonao Koshikawa (越川知尚),
Kei Shii (椎啓), and
Masami Tada (多田正美).
Chie Mukai participated in the first two concerts, but no longer plays with the group.
Discography
*''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976)
*''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998)
*''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007)
* ''Glasgow 17th Feb 2008'' 4LP (PAN, 2013)
References
Kazuo Imai, "1997年10月18日（土）、再び私達は演奏する", in G-Modern, issue 16, Autumn 97. pp. 60–61 (Japanese)
Live review. G-Modern, issue 17, Winter 97-98. p. 71 (Japanese)
Stofer, F. (2000). Japanese Independent Music, France: Sonore.
External links
Profile & photos of a recent performance
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Japanese rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1997
1997 establishments in Japan