21 November 2014

KUNIYOSHI-KUHN / MATTOS / PREVOST - EARLHAM STREET BREAKOUT 1989




















AKEMI KUNIYOSHI-KUHN - piano
MARCIO MATTOS - double bass
EDDIE PREVOST - percussion

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Earlham Street Breakout at Donmar Warehouse, London.  30th July 1989

Listening to the ‘Handscapes’ LP (below) and enjoying it after many years, prompted me to dig out my old cassette recording of the same trio. Funny how it’s easy to dismiss a recording you’ve made because of one little wrong thing.  I always thought this was a dusty sounding old thing, recorded rather distantly from the music, up in the balcony. Transferring from tape today, I was pleasantly surprised.  With the dolby on it’s not too hissy, at one point a baby cries, but it sounds pretty good really.  Anyway if you enjoyed Handscapes, you might want to hear this.

Bozo rightly commented that Akemi once played with saxophonist Chris Green. Consulting an old copy of WIRE (issue 49 March 1988), they played together in Coherents, producing K’Tah (Prime Tapes) and Red Shift (Prime LP).  If anybody has these, it would be good to hear them. 
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7 comments:

  1. Andy21 November 2014 at 17:05:00 CET

    Zippy

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  2. Andy21 November 2014 at 23:40:00 CET

    I'm playing this for what must be the eighth time today!

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  3. SOTISE23 November 2014 at 23:52:00 CET

    very beautiful music, Kuhn was just a name to me, thanks for the introduction... most enjoyable, wonder what happened to her?

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  4. DW25 November 2014 at 19:20:00 CET

    Beautiful!

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  5. Brewing Luminous6 September 2018 at 22:47:00 CEST

    Could we get a re-upp of this?

    Thanks!

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  6. Andy7 September 2018 at 19:55:00 CEST

    NEW LINK:
    https://www.adrive.com/public/VRzJk8/akemi%20live.rar

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  7. correct silence7 September 2018 at 23:31:00 CEST

    Thank you Andy for the update. I discovered "handscapes" not so long ago and I thought to ask a repost of this concert. No the sound is really not too bad, it is really more than acceptable and the music is really good very lyrical even in the "stormy" moments. As you are talking about Chris Green in the comment if someone have his superbe lp "Out Windows" it would really be good to have a post of it.

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