Tayutauta [Remastered Edition], by Yumiko Tanaka

Tayutauta [Remastered Edition]

by Yumiko Tanaka

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	1.	古池や Furuike ya 05:46
	2.	風が遠くで Kaze ga Toku de 07:11
	3.	雨やどり Amayadori 13:29
	4.	ゆき Yuki 08:33
	5.	地霊 Chirei 03:42
	6.	流転 Ruten 08:43
	7.	山の端 Yamanoha 05:27
	8.	おとづれ Otozure 01:18
	9.	たゆた Tayuta 10:52
	10.	The Gateway 00:45

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While continuously engaged in the field of traditional Japanese music, female-school gidayu shamisen player Yumiko Tanaka has since the 1990s been carrying out multifaceted musical activities including contemporary classical music, improvisation (in 1996-97 she was a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s band Ground-Zero), experimental music, and theater performance/composition, performing and exchanging ideas with many musicians from Japan and other countries.

While Tanaka is regarded as one of the musicians representative of the improvised/experimental music scene in Japan, thus far she has only two solo releases: the CD "Tayutauta" (Improvised Music from Japan, 2004) and the DVD "Music Performance" (Meenna, 2017). In 2023, 19 years after its original release, her only solo CD—the widely acclaimed "Tayutauta"—has been remastered and reissued with greatly improved sound quality and a new design.

"Tayutauta" contains ten completely improvised tracks in which Tanaka uses the gidayu shamisen but departs boldly from the usual methods of playing the instrument. Incorporating a variety of experimental techniques including plucking, bowing and use of "prepared" objects, these performances are calm and sedate, but suffused throughout with a feeling of cohesion backed by Tanaka's distinctive musical artistry. This is improvised music of rare quality.

女流義太夫の三味線奏者である田中悠美子は、伝統音楽分野での活動に止まらず、1990年代から現代音楽、即興音楽 (田中は1996～7年、大友良英のバンド、Ground-Zero のメンバーだった)、実験音楽、シアター作品での演奏・作曲など多方面での音楽活動を続け、国内外の数多くの音楽家と共演・交流を繰り広げてきた。

日本の即興・実験音楽シーンを代表する演奏家のひとりとも言える田中だが、なぜかソロ名義のリリースは2004年リリースのCD作品『たゆたうた』(Improvised Music from Japan) と2017年リリースのDVD作品『Music Performance』(Meenna) の２作品しかない。その唯一のソロCDで名盤の誉れ高い『たゆたうた』が、リリースから19年後の2023年、新たにマスタリングを施して格段に聴きやすくなり、さらにデザインも一新し遂に復刻。

義太夫三味線を使用しながら義太夫三味線の本来の奏法から大胆に逸脱した、完全即興演奏10曲を収録。爪弾き、弓弾きやプリペアドなどの様々な試みを伴い、演奏は淡々と進む。しかし、全体として彼女の音楽性に裏打ちされた統一感に満ち、極めて良質な即興音楽作品に仕上がっている。

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released July 16, 2023

Yumiko Tanaka: futozao shamisen, vocal (9)

Recorded by Yumiko Tanaka in her four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room in Yashiro, Hyogo prefecture, September 10 (1), June 15 (2), June 16 (3), June 17 (4), September 11 (5), August 21 (6, 7), August 25 (8), August 26 (9), and August 27 (10), 2003
Remastered by Ftarri, April 2023
Photo by Koh Okabe
Design by Cathy Fishman

Special thanks to Juteru Tsuruzawa, Kinshi Nozawa IV, Koshijitayu Takemoto IV, and Haruyo & Isamu Yoshitake

Original edition released in 2004 with a different cover/disc design on the Improvised Music from Japan label (IMJ-507)

Yumiko Tanaka recommends listening to this CD with headphones.

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