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Spotlight: Tatsu Aoki; Making art that's collective.
re: Rooted, the latest disc from musician Tatsu Aoki's Miyumi Project, begins with a few spare beats on a Japanese taiko drum. A second taiko joins in, then a third, followed by silence. For more than two minutes, the drumming builds and fades, finds a rhythm and drops off, starts a conversation and then lets it go. Finally, suddenly, it's joined by a burst of groove and melody from a trio of reedists, a violinist, and Aoki himself, his standup bass pushing the drummers' search into a joyous song.
It's a great example of Aoki's kind of music, a combination of Black improvisational jazz, Asian folk music, and his own spiritual quest. It's the product of a musical ...
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