SOUND ROOM LXVIII
17.9.2017
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Stereocilia is Bristol based guitarist and composer, John Scott. John uses his guitar, analog synths and live looping techniques to create dense, rich layers of sound. His live show is centred on a visual backdrop he has created, with the improvisation acting as a live soundtrack.
Over the past 10 years John has performed all over the UK and Europe, sharing the stage with acts such as, White Hills, Acid Mothers Temple, Ben Frost, Noveller, Mick Turner (The Dirty Three), Jozef Van Wissem, Natural Snow Buildings, and many others. He has presented work for live radio broadcasts, and regularly composes music for short films. He has also performed in three of Rhys Chatham’s 100-piece guitar Orchestras, in Liverpool, Birmingham, and San Francisco. Stereocilia’s debut album Mumurations came out on his Echoic Memory Label in November 2013, bookended by two E.P’s and a string of compilation appearances. 2016 saw the release of his second album, ‘The Road to the Unconscious Past’ also on Echoic Memory. 2017 will see 3 EP’s released on the labels; Low Point, Champion Versions and Environmental Studies. http://www.stereociliamusic.com/ https://stereocilia.bandcamp.com/ |
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USVA
Usva is a Japanese-Finnish trio of Naoto Yamagishi (percussion), Jone Takamäki (woodwinds) and Lauri Hyvärinen (guitar). They work with quiet, stripped down acoustic sounds – carefully crafting brooding, lingering and fragile soundscapes – like the beauty of a tree stripped back to its branches. The trio has toured in Japan and Finland and released their debut CD in 2016 on the Finnish label Rypistellyt Levyt.
Naoto Yamagishi is a drummer and percussionist born in 1979 in Japan. Active in Japan and Europe, he is praised for his unique and inventive approach towards percussion instruments. His collaborators include Tetuzi Akiyama, Heddy Boubaker, Isabelle Duthoit and Morishige Yasumune.
https://www.naotoyamagishi.com/
Jone Takamäki is a reed player who has been active in the Finnish avant garde and improvised music scene since the late 70s. In 1981 he received the first ever Pekka Pöyry Award and in the same year released his self titled debut with Antti Hytti and Samppa Salmi. Takamäki has been a part of Edward Vesala’s Sound and Fury and the ECM signed Finnish jazz/rock/improv collective Krakatau. He is a specialist in Japanese shakuhachi and hocchiku flute playing.
Lauri Hyvärinen (b. 1986, Helsinki) uses guitar as his main sound source. His sound and music related activities are of theoretical and practical nature, of which improvisation remains as his primary medium and interest. In addition to solo performances, Hyvärinen has collaborated with musicians such as Ilia Belorukov, Hong Chulki, Seijiro Murayama and Jack Wright. He has performed widely in Europe and Japan.
laurihyvarinen.com
Video: https://youtu.be/PSqCYLrf3IU?t=25s
Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/usvatrio
Usva is a Japanese-Finnish trio of Naoto Yamagishi (percussion), Jone Takamäki (woodwinds) and Lauri Hyvärinen (guitar). They work with quiet, stripped down acoustic sounds – carefully crafting brooding, lingering and fragile soundscapes – like the beauty of a tree stripped back to its branches. The trio has toured in Japan and Finland and released their debut CD in 2016 on the Finnish label Rypistellyt Levyt.
Naoto Yamagishi is a drummer and percussionist born in 1979 in Japan. Active in Japan and Europe, he is praised for his unique and inventive approach towards percussion instruments. His collaborators include Tetuzi Akiyama, Heddy Boubaker, Isabelle Duthoit and Morishige Yasumune.
https://www.naotoyamagishi.com/
Jone Takamäki is a reed player who has been active in the Finnish avant garde and improvised music scene since the late 70s. In 1981 he received the first ever Pekka Pöyry Award and in the same year released his self titled debut with Antti Hytti and Samppa Salmi. Takamäki has been a part of Edward Vesala’s Sound and Fury and the ECM signed Finnish jazz/rock/improv collective Krakatau. He is a specialist in Japanese shakuhachi and hocchiku flute playing.
Lauri Hyvärinen (b. 1986, Helsinki) uses guitar as his main sound source. His sound and music related activities are of theoretical and practical nature, of which improvisation remains as his primary medium and interest. In addition to solo performances, Hyvärinen has collaborated with musicians such as Ilia Belorukov, Hong Chulki, Seijiro Murayama and Jack Wright. He has performed widely in Europe and Japan.
laurihyvarinen.com
Video: https://youtu.be/PSqCYLrf3IU?t=25s
Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/usvatrio