Akai Ikuo - Language Without Words (2008)

GENRE..... Avantgarde
LABEL...... Beta Lactam Ring Records
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. 24-09-2008

Akai Ikuo plays over forty instruments on Language Without Words, an
eclectic outing that finds the Tokyo-based musician indulging in an
explorative jazz style that occasionally calls to mind the electric
music-making of Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis (Squarepusher's Music Is
Rotted One Note might be a more recent analogue). Squeezing twelve pieces
into thirty minutes means that some will be short and, true enough, five
are under two minutes. Ikuo's "harmolodic" approach sounds at times like
he's channeling Coleman's Prime Time; certainly the third track (it's
titled ôRed Hot Noodleö on the sleeve but identified as "Copycat" on the
disc, and because there's also a discrepancy between the ten tracks
listed on the package and the twelve on the disc, I'll eschew
identifying track titles to avoid confusion) traffics in the free-flowing
funk-jazz style of Dancing in Your Head and Body Meta, and the fourth
weds ghostly Ornette sax playing to spindly guitar lines in a manner
reminiscent of Virgin Beauty and Tone Dialing; the electronic psychedelia
of the fifth piece, on the other hand, could blend easily into On
The Corner. One track even merges steel drum playing with sax and techno
beats while a fleeting sampling of guitar-based blues inexplicably rears
its head elsewhere. Language Without Words is the first album to be
released outside of Japan by Ikuo who's, apparently, a legend of sorts
in the Tokyo underground scene and able to "play any instrument, anywhere,
anytime."

Tracklist:

01 Cha-Ri Trip
02 Night In November
03 Red Hot Noodle
04 Playing A Guitar
05 I Don't Like Such A Hot Day
06 Heart Beat
07 Step, Step, Step
08 Rain In Mitaka
09 Dual Ole Attack
10 Omake
11 Untitled
12 Untitled

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