Hokusai
by AKI TAKASE
Rumpelstilzchen
Eigil Moeller
morndewey
rosewreaths
Jen
Michel Fontaine
mikey
Mr CXB
Petter A Urkedal
David J. Brown
Lawrence Stanley & Hope Carr
Dinosaur Egg Hoarder
fish_ac
brennovich
SyS
Maxime Jacquet
Colin Cahill
jackmw1229
ricardope
egoodstein
csjazzflac
jazzmütze
Elmar Pinkhardt
Christopher Graham
wildor
ghostpig
mavilla
Robert Bielecki
David Morrissey
shragovitch
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Crane
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Hokusais Meer
04:40
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Live in Dream
03:43
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Nihon Bridge in Edo
03:07
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Hokusai Manga
02:39
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Sketch of Spring
02:37
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Studies of Gesture
02:01
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Cherry
08:34
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Silent Landscape
05:04
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Dr. Beat
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about
Intakt CD 327
Aki Takase, the Berlin-based pianist, is one of the great personalities of modern jazz. Moments of freedom, form and humour characterize this stylistically versatile avant-gardist, the stubborn virtuoso who toys with jazz traditions. In the year of her 70th birthday, Aki Takase was honoured with The Berlin Jazz Prize. Recorded over two days at the Sendesaal Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the album includes some pieces captured live during the award ceremony, and some recorded in a studio setting in the same historic room. The piece Bach Factory features Alexander von Schlippenbach as a guest and the Japanese author Yoko Tawada appears on Hokahoka Hokosai. Aki Takase is inspired by the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai. For Aki Takase, Hokusai was a hugely passionate and brilliant artist with an experimental mind who lived only with and for his paintings. “Hokusai showed so many directions in painting, which is why I wanted to convey various colours in improvisation. Music is like a colour. For me, red and light-blue are gentle colours. These were the colours that I felt. That’s my internal landscape. I feel a strong connection to Hokusai.”
Aki Takase, the Berlin-based pianist, is one of the great personalities of modern jazz. Moments of freedom, form and humour characterize this stylistically versatile avant-gardist, the stubborn virtuoso who toys with jazz traditions. In the year of her 70th birthday, Aki Takase was honoured with The Berlin Jazz Prize. Recorded over two days at the Sendesaal Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the album includes some pieces captured live during the award ceremony, and some recorded in a studio setting in the same historic room. The piece Bach Factory features Alexander von Schlippenbach as a guest and the Japanese author Yoko Tawada appears on Hokahoka Hokosai. Aki Takase is inspired by the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai. For Aki Takase, Hokusai was a hugely passionate and brilliant artist with an experimental mind who lived only with and for his paintings. “Hokusai showed so many directions in painting, which is why I wanted to convey various colours in improvisation. Music is like a colour. For me, red and light-blue are gentle colours. These were the colours that I felt. That’s my internal landscape. I feel a strong connection to Hokusai.”
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released June 21, 2019
Aki Takase: Piano Solo
Compositions by Aki Takase. All pieces are performed solo by Aki Takase except “Bach Factory” by Aki Takase and Alexander von Schlippenbach and “Hokahoka Hokusai” by Aki Takase and Yoko Tawada. Recorded June 26, 2018, live at Sendesaal Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg and June 27, 2018, at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Radio producer: Ulf Drechsel. Sound supervisor: Maria Suschke. Recording engineer: Peter Schladebach. Digital cut and mastering: Ulrich Hieber. Cover art: Hokusai. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller.
Aki Takase: Piano Solo
Compositions by Aki Takase. All pieces are performed solo by Aki Takase except “Bach Factory” by Aki Takase and Alexander von Schlippenbach and “Hokahoka Hokusai” by Aki Takase and Yoko Tawada. Recorded June 26, 2018, live at Sendesaal Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg and June 27, 2018, at Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Radio producer: Ulf Drechsel. Sound supervisor: Maria Suschke. Recording engineer: Peter Schladebach. Digital cut and mastering: Ulrich Hieber. Cover art: Hokusai. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt, Anja Illmaier, Florian Keller.
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