TAMARU "Live Recording 2011"
with Tadahiko YOKOGAWA and Sachiko M
(sahoux 999cd)
Dazzling
Sheltered Opera
Pierced by Starbeam
Chronicle of Gray
A is for Argent
Coda
TAMARU bass guitar
Tadahiko YOKOGAWA violin
Sachiko M sinewaves
Recorded at Monnaka Tenjo Hall, Tokyo on January 8th, 2011
Recording, mixing and mastering by Hiromitsu SHOJI (Sara Disc)
Artwork by Mitsuhiro KAMADA
English translation by Makoto OSHIRO
Photograph by Monnaka Tenjo Hall
Produced by TAMARU
Recently I have been using a bass guitar rendition that accentuates the overtones in my performances. In this rendition I slightly touch the vibrating bass strings with the skin of my fingers, and this causes complex overtones to occur. For some while in the past I used delay processors with volume pedals and did a drone style expression, but I have quit that. I sold my sound processors, and now am able to perform just by using a bass guitar, amplifier and a cable to connect them. In most of these live recorded compositions, I placed my own solo performances that consist of simple motifs in their first stage. After that, I requested for the two improvisers, Tadahiko YOKOGAWA and Sachiko M, to takeover the concepts and extend them with their own free interpretations and reactions. I would also like to note that Tadahiko YOKOGAWA prepared some sound effects on his laptop computer this day. In the end however, he decided not to use any of those and performed simply on his violin. TAMARU