Thursday 18 May 2023, 8pm
"During the past decade, a number of free music players in Japan have fiercely, with no compromise, continued to grapple with the questions that lay at the heart of the solo saxophone recital: how to tease and tear new formations out of the interface between human breath, human flesh and skeleton, and the instrument itself, its keys, holes, pads, reed, and brass body.
With Free Wind Mood, An’archives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a side each to two of the most rigorous, exciting, and committed players from the scene: Harutaka Mochizuki and Makoto Kawashima." – Jon Dale
Born in Shizuoka City in 1977.
He started solo performance by alto saxophone at the age of 22.
In addition to his solo, there are releases by duo with Tomoyuki Aoki ( UP-TIGHT ),
Hideaki Kondo ( EXIAS-J ) and others.
There is also a collaborative album with Michel Henritzi and Yuki Fuji in 2018.
Concert career outside Japan is "Le Weekend 2005 in Scotland" (solo: 2005),
"Aoki / Mochizuki European Tour" (2018), "Aok i /Mochizuki Taiwan Tour" (2019).
Leandro Barzabal is an Argentine musician who has been working since 2001 as a self-taught artist in the field of experimental music, improvisation and performing arts. He uses the surrounding space and objects to compose in real time and strives to build his own instruments.
Since June 2018 he has been based in Paris where he is involved in the experimental scene.
In 2021 he founded the GRM Parallèle studio (Asnières-sur-Seine) dedicated to the construc- tion of musical instruments, the support of musicians who wish to develop DIY electronic pro- jects and sound research.
Michel Henritzi is a member of the noise group Dustbreeders, regular accomplices of the scream diva Junko (Hijokaidan) and Rinji Fukuoka (Majutsu No Niwa). He has collaborated with Yoko Higashi, Tetuzi Akiyama, Masayoshi Urabe, Chie Mukai, Jojo Hiroshige, Tamio Shiraishi, Mico K.Mical, Yukiko Nakamura, Ibuki Kuramochi, Yukiko Nakamura, Harutaka Mochizuki, Yuki Fuji, Shin’Ichi Isohata, Who With Gabriel, Mattin, Jerôme Noetinger, Christophe Langlade, The Nihilist Spasm Band...
Musician, producer and music critic (Revue & Corrigée, Hello Happy Taxpayers, Improvised Music of Japan, Opprobrium...), essayist (Micro Japon - ed. Lenka Lente...), founder of the la- bel A Bruit Secret (Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura , Sachiko M, Brandon LaBelle, Bruce Russell & Ralf Wehowsky, Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami) and Elevage de Poussière with Yves Botz and Thierry Delles (Junko, Masayoshi Urabe, Don Dietrich). He collaborated in the ‘80s with the NOX collective and writer Kathy Acker on the AKT label.
http://michelhenritzi.canalblog.com/
http://michelhenritzi1.bandcamp.com/
