Hanakana, by Donkey Monkey

Hanakana

by Donkey Monkey

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1.	Hanakana 08:37	buy track
2.	Can't get my motor to start 08:53	buy track
3.	Nejire 08:16	buy track
4.	Wonky Monkey Boogie 04:48	buy track
5.	Improvisation 02:32	buy track
6.	Ni Fleur Ni Brume 03:14	buy track
7.	Chaconne 06:52	buy track
8.	N-A-N-C-A-R-R-O-W 03:07	buy track
9.	Blues Nippon 04:55	buy track

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“With this second recording, the french-japanese duo seems to recenter more on its fundamental instruments that are the piano for Eve Risser, the drums for Yuko Oshima. Of course, there is still the use, more parsimonious than in “Ouature”, of electronic resources or the use of various objects. But the music in itself remained in its fundamentals, that is this ingenious and exhilarating mixture of a rich jazz (Can’t Get my Motor to Start by Carla Bley), a contemporary music far from being academic (N.A.N.C.A.R.R.O.W, or even Chaconne – tribute to Ligeti) and improvisation. A mixture sometimes destined to subtly convey sound impressions for a few haïkus of the two musicians’ own invention or borrowed (Ni fleur, ni brume) to the Chinese poet of simplicity that was Bai Juyi, in the 8th-9th centuries. Lively, joyful and inspired, this interrogation (is it a flower? translation of Hanakana) is a sound piece of work full of poetry.” – Pierre Durr.

credits

released February 6, 2011

Eve Risser: piano, prepared piano, voice
Yuko Oshima: drums, sampler, voice

Recording : Downtown Studio, Strasbourg
Engineering : Boris Darley
Mixing : Boris Darley (The Hatch, Saint-Denis . December 2012)
Mixing Assistant : Guilui Bessi
Mastering : Björn Baummann
Photo and design : Pauline Rühl Saur

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Umlaut Records Paris, France

Umlaut is a music collective born in 2004 in Stockholm, which then opened two branches in Berlin and Paris.

« Transformation of sound » is the motto around which they gathered to produce records, organize concerts, discover new artists and play music together.

The collective works to spread a music that is too rarely shared and discovered. ... more

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