Library Recommendation: Sound of the Mountain with Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura – amplified clarinet and trumpet, guitars, nimb

Released: 2019

Label: Mystery & Wonder

Genre: Contemporary
 
It’s a communion of sounds, linked in an experiential continuum rather than through fixed harmonies and rhythms. Ten minutes into 2, there’s a passage that sounds like a very wise child is gently plucking at a guitar for the first time, a trumpet plays muffled lines and there’s a hive of electronic sound. It’s a moment of perfect multi-dimensional calm. The Whole Note