is a Japanese musician, best known for his intensely physical style of free improvisation on the alto saxophone and his deployment of long, laden silences. He has sometimes been compared to the late Japanese free jazz altoist
Kaoru Abe
(May 5, 1949 – September 9, 1978) was a Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist. Self-taught at a young age, Abe performed with notables such as Motoharu Yoshizawa, Takehisa Kosugi, Yosuke Yamashita, Derek Bailey, and Milford Graves, although ...
.
He has played with many underground musicians in Japan, including
Chie Mukai (
Ché-SHIZU),
Kan Mikami
is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter and actor. His music, heavily influenced by American blues, was popular in Japan in the 1970s. He re-wrote the lyric of the song "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" for his cover version in 1972, which was banned for its ...
(Sanjah),
Hiroshi Hasegawa (
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,
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Hijokaidan
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) and the psychedelic rock group
Kousokuya. Recently he formed the group Sanjah, with folk singer
Kan Mikami
is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter and actor. His music, heavily influenced by American blues, was popular in Japan in the 1970s. He re-wrote the lyric of the song "Yume wa Yoru Hiraku" for his cover version in 1972, which was banned for its ...
and drummer
Toshi Ishizuka. He also performs with the Paris-based dancer
Yukiko Nakamura.
Discography
* Solo
** ''Solo'' LP/CD (PSF, 1996)
** ''Ju A Brute'' 2LP (no label, 2000)
** ''Rock n Roll Breathing'' video (There, 2001)
** ''Urklang'' CD (Tiliqua, 2001)
** ''Soingyokusaiseyo'' LP (Elevage de Poussiere, 2002)
** ''Ware wa seidai no kyojo zo'' CD (PSF, 2003)
** V.A., ''Amaterasu'' 2CD (Fractal, 2003)
** V.A., ''Undecided'' CD (PSF, 2004)
** V.A., ''Somethings #1'' CD (Last Visible Dog, 2007)
** ''真夏の旗
he Flag of Midsummer' CD (PSF, 2008)
* Collaborations
** ''Nazareth'' CD w/Ché-SHIZU (PSF, 1993)
** ''The Dark Spot'' CD w/Kousokuya (PSF, 1997)
** ''Duo 1988'' LP w/Hiroshi Hasegawa (Siwa, 1999)
** ''Masayoshi Urabe & Gary Smith'' CD w/
Gary Smith (Paratactile, 2001)
** ''Dual Anarchism'' LP w/Chie Mukai (Siwa, 2002)
** ''Dual Anarchism'' video w/Chie Mukai (There, 2002)
** ''Chi no kioku'' video w/Yuji Itsumi (PSF, 2003)
** V.A., ''PSF & Alchemy 20th Anniversary Live'' CD w/Junko (PSF, 2005)
** ''Musen/Izu'' CD w/Sanjah (PSF, 2006)
* Samples
** ''Urabe Breathes'' on
Cory Allen's album ''Gesemi Tropisms'' (Bremsstrahlung, 2005)
References
* Interview. ''Opprobrium'', issue 5, July 1998. pp. 3–10. (English)
External links
Photographs and movie of Urabe at Lethe Voice festivalLive review Leeds, 2002
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Japanese musicians
Living people
1965 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
P.S.F. Records artists