Taku Sugimoto: guitar

Recorded at Galerie de Café Den in Tokyo on April 24, 25 and 29, 1997.

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With all the recent Feldman posts this seemed like an appropriate diversion. Probably one of my all time favorite solo guitar records…

“Almost all the music on Opposite sounds like an attempt to reproduce on CD the kind of preternatural calm which descends on visitors to the Zen temples and public gardens which are hidden away down the back streets and side alleys of Japan’s teeming urban centres. The CD’s 20 mostly brief tracks are dominated by limpid pools of silence, into whcih guitar notes fall like moss-covered pebbles. Sugimoto is an improviser with an acute sense of timing and note placement, and the performances are suspended in a riveting tension, but the the overarching mood is one of intoxicating tranquility.” – Tony Herrington