For Tentou Mishima, by Kazuo Imai

For Tentou Mishima

by Kazuo Imai

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

¥850 JPY or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Photos by Naoko Hinode, Yoshihiro Yamada, and Yu Murooka
Includes liner notes by Kazuo Imai in Japanese and English

Includes unlimited streaming of For Tentou Mishima via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

edition of 500 31 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

¥2,000 JPY or more

	1.	Improvisation 40:55
	2.	For Tentou Mishima No. 1-A 03:59
	3.	For Tentou Mishima No. 1-B 04:07
	4.	For Tentou Mishima No. 2-A (4:04) 04:04
	5.	For Tentou Mishima No. 2-B 04:01

about

Kazuo Imai (born in 1955) studied with Masayuki Takayanagi and Takehisa Kosugi, and has been performing improvised music since the 1970s. While his principal instrument is the guitar, he also makes extensive use of viola da gamba, electronics, everyday items and natural objects, freely performing music born of myriad sounds. This album is comprised of five pieces from Imai's live performance on the final day of a solo exhibition by graphic artist Tentou Mishima (who died in 2012), held at the gallery Nanzuka Agenda in Shibuya, Tokyo, in August of 2010. In the first track, which is over 40 minutes long, Imai uses an acoustic guitar, Fiedel Gamba, piano wire, branches and small objects, changing instruments and expressive techniques several times in the course of the performance. With its superb structure and dynamism, this epic work makes a powerful impression. In tracks 2 to 5 (each about 4 minutes long), Imai used (composed) Mishima's drawings like scores and performed them on acoustic guitar. Imai's outstanding artistry and skill are fully demonstrated in these amazing performances.

今井和雄（1955年生まれ）は高柳昌行と小杉武久に師事し、1970年代から即興演奏を続けていて、国内はもとより海外での公演も多い。ギターをメイン楽器として使用し演奏する一方、ギター以外にもヴィオラ・ダ・ガンバ、エレクトロニクス、日用品や自然物など様々な素材を駆使し、自在で多彩な音からなる演奏もおこなっている。本アルバムには、2010年8月に東京、渋谷のギャラリー、Nanzuka Agenda で開かれたグラフィック・アーティスト、三嶋典東（2012年死去）の個展最終日に、今井がおこなったライヴ演奏を5曲収録。40分を超える1曲目は、アコースティック・ギター、フィーデル・ガンバ、ピアノ線、枝木、小物類を使い、時間の経過とともに何度か使用楽器や表現方法を変化させ、構成の妙とダイナミズムを聴く者に強烈に印象づける大作。2～5曲目（それぞれ4分程度）は、今井が三嶋のドローイングを楽譜に見立て（作曲し）、自らアコースティック・ギターで演奏。小品ながら、今井の傑出した音楽性と演奏力が発揮された名演。

credits

released June 12, 2016

Kazuo Imai: acoustic guitar (1-5), Fiedel Gamba (1), branches (1), piano wire (1), objects (1)

Recorded live at Nanzuka Agenda, Tokyo, August 7, 2010
Recorded and mastered by Takeshi Yoshida
Design by Yoshihisa Shirai
Produced by Kazuo Imai

license

about

Hitorri Tokyo, Japan

contact / help

Contact Hitorri

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like For Tentou Mishima, you may also like:

Watashi Dake?
by Keiji Haino

supported by 6 fans who also own “For Tentou Mishima”

Definitely different from his more recent collaboratively ethereal and leisurely LP's, this is a crepitating, sparsely textured album that sounds like a peregrine mixture of Whitehouse eeriness, Diamanda Galas, and the first Sonic Youth LP if it was played by Jandek. A fascinating LP that is best played at very loud volumes lying on the sofa after a few Fernet Branca's. brantly
go to album
Historic Music Past Tense Future
by Peter Brötzmann, Milford Graves, William Parker

supported by 5 fans who also own “For Tentou Mishima”

free jazz you can lift weights to. aggressive and necessary. Lovdahl, Ian
go to album
O Life, O Light, Vol. 1
by Zoh Amba featuring William Parker and Francisco Mela

supported by 5 fans who also own “For Tentou Mishima”

This is wonderful! I look forward to Vol. 2. glancecyrus
go to album
Lives
by St Celfer™

St Celfer returns with tracks culled from a series of live shows, each one a showcase for his inventive experimentalism. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023
go to album
RANCUNE
by Sam Ospovat

Prickly avant-jazz and math-rock obstinance make for dazzlingly complex songs on the latest from Sam Ospovat. Bandcamp New & Notable May 27, 2023
go to album
Mouth Full of Glass (2022)
by Macie Stewart

Contemplative indie folk with crystalline melodies given a lift by guests like Ben Lamar Gay and Sen Morimoto. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 23, 2022
go to album
far and wee
by Kazuo Imai

supported by 5 fans who also own “For Tentou Mishima”

Kazuo Imai is quite unknown in Europe and the US. This live recording is a good way to start to know him. He is playing acoustic guitar. He has his own voice. Ulrich Jonas
go to album