{"product_id":"ashioto","title":"Ashioto","description":"\u003cp\u003e Black Truffle is pleased to announce Ashioto, the first international solo release from Japanese drummer-percussionist-composer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. Active for over a decade, Yamamoto has performed and recorded extensively with artists such as Jim O’Rourke, Eiko Ishibashi and Akira Sakata, as well as participating in innumerable improvised and ad hoc groups.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAshioto\u003c\/i\u003e presents two wide-ranging pieces that combine Yamamoto’s percussion work with piano, field recordings, electronics, and contributions from guest musicians Daisuke Fujiwara and Eiko Ishibashi. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beginning with a passage of chiming metal percussion, the first side slowly builds into a rolling, open groove reminiscent of Yamamoto’s work on Eiko Ishibashi’s acclaimed Drag City LP \u003ci\u003eThe Dreams My Bones Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. Spacious piano and synth notes, along with Ishibashi’s spare melodic figures on processed flute, hover above this propulsive rhythmic foundation, the whole effect adding up to a more abstract take on the area explored on Rainer Brüninghaus’s ECM classic \u003ci\u003eFreigeweht.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The LP’s second side opens up a cavernous space filled with ominous electronics and shimmering metallic percussion, which organically transitions into a passage of rumbling piano chords and mysterious concrète sound. Later in the piece, Daisuke Fujiawara’s saxophone enters, playing melancholic melodic fragments that are looped and layered, creating a seasick swaying effect familiar to listeners of James Tenney’s works with tape delay systems. Beginning as delicate bass drum pulses, Yamamoto’s accompanying percussion eventually builds the piece into a raging torrent of free-improv splatter, processed sax and fizzing electronics. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though grounded in instrumental performance, Ashioto is very much a studio construction, making inventive use of electro-acoustic principles in its editing and mixing. Together with its sister Ashiato – a different take on the same ‘script’ released simultaneously on Japanese label Newhere – Ashioto demonstrates to an international audience for the first time the true breadth and ambition of Yamamoto’s work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50490885865803,"sku":"1109322","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/46768d9c-8e6c-4bc3-8d1a-66eaea6b91a3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734642785","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/ashioto","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}