saisoro

As I write this I am listening to the disc I just got in the mail yesterday (thank you aquarius records) – Derek Bailey & The Ruins.  I’d heard a cut from this some time back (on Tilos Rádió via the online site ultrahang a tiloson [highly recommended]) and just got around to ordering it.  Very nice.  Derek’s spiky improv over the top of the drum & bass sometimes-groove of the Ruins.  I think I was brought back to this because of my ongoing interest in Uchihashi Kazuhisa.  His recordings with Yoshida Tatsuya, the ongoing force (and drums) behind the Ruins, are great skeins of amplified guitar improvisation.

I recently picked up ‘Improvisations’, the Uchihashi Kazuhisa/Yoshida Tatsuya recording, while on a brief stay in Kyoto.  I’m still after the second set of recordings made with an extended group (not found at the Tower Records Japan that I was wandering in).  I came upon Uchihashi/Tatsuya through Pandora, an excellent source of interesting tunes.

This is all joyously connected (at least in my head) even if it sounds a bit scattered.  I just realized that this post is a bit like the music I’m listening to – improvised, loosely related, a bit jangly but (I hope in the case of the post, certainly as it pertains to the music) interesting.