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Akira Sakata＆Chikamorachi、Jim O'Rourke&Osorezan
Darin Gray and I are of the same generation who grew up in the cultural wasteland America became from 1975 onwards. We were born just early enough to have formative experiences with great films, music, and culture, but by the time of high school, having any interest in something that contained "merit" meant that you would be looking desperately for friends. We lived in the same state, on opposite ends, and were both looking through record stores in order to keep a grasp on a culture we felt truly attracted to, but was dissapearing day by day. The only advantage was that these records became cheaper by the day, as the rise of GRP jazz and the like filled the racks. It was during that time that I first found a record of the Yamashita Trio on Enja records. It was sitting right behind a Cecil Taylor's lp, so I thought, "why not?" . I was immeditaly struck by Mr. Sakata's sax. It didn't sound like anyone I had ever heard. It was Jimmy Lyons, who I though would be the best reference, it wasn't even like the european players who I knew at the time, this was something DIFFERENT. Later, through completely different channels, I learned about Whahaha, and Sakata's other efforts. I liked him even more for it. When Darin and I finally met years later, we had been running parallel lives, which converged with one simple question, out of the blue, "Do You like Derek Bailey?" Almost 20 years later, there is a sign of fate that I had forgotten, but Darin remembers vividly.
The first time he came to Chicago to vist and to start playing music together, I told him he just HAD to see this video before we went to play. "Hanihachan All-Stars". And there was Mr. Sakata. So Mr. Sakata has been with Darin and I since the beginning.
Chris is for me someone I wish had been around when Darin and I were beginning, how things would have changed. After the great first masters of the drums, there seemed to be an almost 25 year gap where no one seemed to be able to play like "that". This way of making music with the drums, and I mean that in a special way, because people with this gift don't "play the drums", they are a force unto themselves. The first time I heard Chris, I thought "where did YOU come from?" And fittingly enough, one of the first times I spent time with chris was at his job orgaizing a small record distributor. And what should be there, considerably more expensive than when i bought them, Akira Sakata.
The sound that was heard around the world.
Jim O'Rourke
■ Akira Sakata＆Chikamorachi、Jim O'Rourke&Osorezan ■
Oct 3rd(fri) 4th(sat) open 19:30 start 20:00 *advance ticket 4,000 yen /ticket on the day 4,500 yen
Akira Sakata（As,Cl,Voice）Jim O'Rourke（G,Syn）Darin Gray（B）Chris Corsano（Ds）
** advance tickets are selling now at Pit Inn Shinjuku (reservation is available.)
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