Miki Matsuki songs. Garrison Fewell's development from a linear post-bop stylist to creative improvising innovator comes to fruition on this recording with his Variable Density Sound Orchestra, actually a finely honed sextet or septet. Second guitarist Eric Hofbauer lends supple support for these free inventions or thematic vehicles that allow the other combo members great leeway in tone colors and expressionism liberated from relative time signatures or structured meters. This is Roy Campbell, Jr.'s first collaboration with Fewell, and is a master stroke, as the trumpeter's lanky lines and poignant tone mesh beautifully with the guitarist's and Italian alto saxophonist/bass clarinetist Achille Succi's, supported by Fewell's fellow Bostonians bassist John Voight and drummer Miki Matsuki. Avowed influences link Fewell's concept with Sun Ra and Anthony Braxton, but there are also clearly defined parallels to the Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, or the European free jazzers of the '70s, as well as ethnic and world music references. That Fewell mixes up stylistic and thematic devices makes the entire recording both intriguing and unpredictable. Short melody fragments, long tones, counterpoint, and controlled spatial cracks identify the well-titled "Spectronomous," "Fragment Alliance" separates the sextet into two independent trios with Succi's twitchy bass clarinet facing off against the guitars, while "Ayleristic," for Albert Ayler, is a free floating piece with soaring horns hardening and dense toward the finish. Campbell's yearning Don Cherry-cum-Lester Bowie trumpet plays opposite to Voight's probing, Malachi Favors-type bass during the free and easy "Olorun Song," while a muted horn evokes desert caravan images on an after-hours mystery train ride for the outstanding "The Red Pyramid," where Succi's alto sax is eventually unveiled at midnight. A bluesy "Descent from Orbit" is a special reprieve of curiosity ...

Miki Matsuki CD discography. Guitarist Eric Hofbauer wrote all of the songs for his delightful project Myth Understanding, where he is joined by tenor saxophonist Kelly Roberge, bassist Michael Montgomery, and drummer Miki Matsuki. The punning album title is just the first indicator of ...

Miki Matsuki albums. Sound Particle 47 is the second release from veteran Boston-based guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell's Variable Density Sound Orchestra. The group brings together a flexible cast of improvisers from Boston and New York that includes Eric Hofbauer(guitar Recording information: Wellspring Studio, Acton. MA ...

Miki Matsuki music CDs. The jazz guitar has a luminous sound, in its contemporary form bubbling and commanding at once. With Fred Fried's eight-string guitar, the tone becomes somewhat deeper, the timbre richer, and the mood (by way of his training, in part) much ...