56 pages – a massive overview of the life and work of avant garde percussionist stomu yamash’ta, including his first english-language interview in over 30 years. a child prodigy, his meteoric rise in the classical world spawned a new world of improvisation and avant classical in the late ’60s and early ’70s before melding eastern concepts with jazz fusion via his more well known outfits come to the edge, east wind, and go. includes never-before-revealed insight into collaborations with toru takemitsu, takehisa kosugi, masahiko sato, the baschet brothers, and others. years in the making, this exhaustive survey corrects misinformation and apocrypha carried down for decades, and opens a new window to yamash’ta’s current projects featuring instruments made from resonant stones. – akio suzuki’s uk travelogue translated by the expert on japanese underground alan cummings – michael griffen, one half of noggin, remembered by aaron gorseth – andrzej zulawski’s films – a history of the beautiful limited edition releases by raymond dijkstra – onde, the new belgian group made up of members of the late noise-maker’s fifes, include timo van luijk of af ursin and in camera – rob millis’ talking machine – patrick marley (former publisher of muckraker magazine) with his column nickels and dimes – reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, dvds and books, both new and old… sold out at source.
BIXOBAL ~ #4 ~ magazine (ri be xibalba)
BIXOBAL ~ #4 ~ magazine (ri be xibalba)
56 pages – a massive overview of the life and work of avant garde percussionist stomu yamash’ta, including his first english-language interview in over 30 years. a child prodigy, his meteoric rise in the classical world spawned a new world of improvisation and avant classical in the late ’60s and early ’70s before melding eastern concepts with jazz fusion via his more well known outfits come to the edge, east wind, and go. includes never-before-revealed insight into collaborations with toru takemitsu, takehisa kosugi, masahiko sato, the baschet brothers, and others. years in the making, this exhaustive survey corrects misinformation and apocrypha carried down for decades, and opens a new window to yamash’ta’s current projects featuring instruments made from resonant stones. – akio suzuki’s uk travelogue translated by the expert on japanese underground alan cummings – michael griffen, one half of noggin, remembered by aaron gorseth – andrzej zulawski’s films – a history of the beautiful limited edition releases by raymond dijkstra – onde, the new belgian group made up of members of the late noise-maker’s fifes, include timo van luijk of af ursin and in camera – rob millis’ talking machine – patrick marley (former publisher of muckraker magazine) with his column nickels and dimes – reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, dvds and books, both new and old… sold out at source.