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Masashi Harada Electric Trio featuring Mat Maneri/Philip Tomasic: Obliteration at the End of Multiplication

Read "Obliteration at the End of Multiplication" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Violinist, Mat Maneri seems to be turning up everywhere these days. And with this release he aligns his wares with the leader of the date, and onetime “New England Conservatory” crony - percussionist, Masashi Harada. Whereas, electric guitarist, Philip Tomasic proves to be a vital link amid this rather free-spirited endeavor.

In the liners, Harada alludes to sounds connecting “in the most unexpected manner.” With that, the artist cites, “transformative technique,” as the foundation for improvisation. Tomasic’s ...

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Masashi Harada: Masashi Harada Electric Trio

Read "Masashi Harada Electric Trio" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Violinist Mat Maneri seems to be turning up everywhere these days. With this release he aligns with percussionist Masashi Harada (the leader), Maneri's onetime New England Conservatory crony. Electric guitarist Philip Tomasic proves to be a vital link amid this rather free-spirited endeavor.

In the liners, Harada alludes to sounds connecting “in the most unexpected manner." With that, the artist cites “transformative technique" as the foundation for improvisation. Tomasic's slide guitar ruminations and ringing harmonics provide a ...

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Masashi Harada & Barre Phillips: Voluminous Venture

Read "Voluminous Venture" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This new release might serve as a paradigm of improvisational inventiveness for bass-piano pairings. Here, pianist/percussionist Masashi Harada teams up with esteemed modern jazz bassist Barre Phillips for a set brimming with subtly melodic, fragmented passages and the twosomes’ compassionate melding of harmonically rich micro themes with propulsive episodes. Furthermore, the musicians’ allow themselves ample amounts of breathing room for a series of geometrically inclined patterns consisting of Harada’s flailing arpeggios and rhythmic approach to the piano atop Phillips’ employment ...

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Masashi Harada Trio: Seismic Plant

Read "Seismic Plant" reviewed by Derek Taylor


Each member a practiced pointillist, the Masashi Harada Trio is perhaps an archetypal abstractionist aggregate. Bhob Rainey and Michael Bullock are veterans of the Boston improv scene and as such routinely traffic in the impressionist currencies Harada also seems to value. The music on this disc is a maze of sonic corridors and trap doors. Harada’s ‘kit’ seems to comprise anything and everything within reach. Bells, chains, shakers and unknown objects all make it into the oblique orbit, not to ...

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Masashi Harada: Condanction Ensemble (1999)

Read "Condanction Ensemble (1999)" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Conductor/musician/educator Masashi Harada iterates, “Condanction exploits this feedback mechanism between physical movements of the Conductor and a group of improvising musicians exploring the border between dance and music”. Hence, this new release titled, Condanction Ensemble (1999) presents the listener with a potpourri of dynamics and music spurred on or perhaps created by gestures, dance and elements that could also be rooted in human psychology. Basically, these nine tracks are quite evolutionary in scope as the improvising musicians respond to Harada’s ...

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