Masashi Harada Discography of CDs

Masashi Harada CD discography It's been 15 years since Leo Records discovered Joe Maneri, this "sixty-seven year old genius" (Paul Bley). This recording went into production before the legendary musician died on August 24, 2009 at the age of 82. Although this album has a feeling of t Recording information: Studio 7A West, Boston, USA (03/18/2003). Personnel: Joe Maneri (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Masashi Harada (flute, piano). Liner Note Authors: François ...

Masashi Harada CD discography This session was recorded in March 1998 and came out four years later, while in the meantime Masashi Harada recorded and released other material. This usually indicates a poor session extracted from the vaults on the strength of an artist's rising profile. The awareness of Harada's music in free improv circles did pick up slightly in the intervening years (even more in the case of Mat Maneri), but what's wrong with Obliteration at the End of Multiplication and why it was kept under wraps for so long still remain a mystery. Harada had not recorded with violinist Maneri since Joe Maneri's 1989 CD, Kalavinka. Guitarist Philip Tomasic is one of his regular music partners since 1995. Although both musicians show interesting interplay with the drummer, it is their dialogue that startles. All of a sudden, it seems Maneri's languid microtonal approach to the electric baritone violin was born to find the perfect mate in Tomasic's slide guitar. The two definitely share something, a common taste for uncertain, awkward emotions, understated microtonal melodic ideas, and sweet and sour improvisation. Harada fits in well, pointing directions and complementing developments, but the ears keep coming back to the fascinating playing of the other two. He sings in a few pieces, a winning decision half of the time only. In "Sonic Freeze," his wails cut through as if bringing a light that one felt somehow inevitable ...

Masashi Harada albums This is the second recording by multi-instrumentalist, composer, conductor, dancer and painter Masashi Harada with Mat Maneri, and the first one on which he plays the piano. For many years, Maneri and Harada have had a very special connection since the t Masashi Harada's previous recording with Mat Maneri was a trio in which ...

Masashi Harada albums Recorded in 1989, this disc features Joe Maneri on tenor, clarinet, and voice; his son Mat on electric violin; and drummer/percussionist Masashi Harada. Given that Joe and Mat Maneri have been regular fixtures on the scene since the late '90s, and that Joe had been in retirement from recording or performing for over 30 years, this is one of, if not the, earliest dates of his return to public performance. That said, this couldn't be a more "out" date. Maneri's deep study of individual and collective improvisation that he taught at the New England Conservatory of Music is present here, and pointed in the direction of microtonal exploration. Here, with the use of the many sonorities of the violin, Joe ...