Harutaka Mochizuki / Makoto Kawashima – Free Wind Mood [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Ho Chi Minh

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It’s worth noting that the clarinettist has also played under the baton of arch-modernist Pierre Boulez

Klaar is both compositionally sophisticated and infused with a sense of mystery and a vital reality often lacking in more academic experimental music

Panhuysen begins proceedings with a solo barrage of electronic percussion on the Synsonics Drum Machine (a simple drum synthesiser produced by the toy manufacturer Mattell)

Although glimpses of recognisable location recordings and instrumental sounds can occasionally be made out

Harutaka Mochizuki / Makoto Kawashima – Free Wind Mood [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield Ho Chi Minh"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, Anarchives splits one vinyl record down the middle, giving a