Marginal Consort マージナル・コンソート // 06 06 16 (St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin) 3xCD BOX SET

1997年から活動している日本のインプロ集団Marginal Consort（今井和雄、越川友尚、椎啓、多田正美）が、2023年6月にイタリアの実験レーベル901 Editionsからリリースした3枚組CDボックスです。

2016年6月にドイツで行った3時間にも及ぶコンサートの記録作品です。

Lawrence Englishによるエッセイを含む28ページのブックレットが付属。

レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more 901 Editions releases available at Tobira. 

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3xCD BOX set comes with 28pp booklet featuring an essay by Lawrence English. 

“06 06 16 (St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin)” documents a rare 3-hour concert by the legendary avant-garde improvisation collective Marginal Consort, on their first-ever appearance in Germany. The event was presented by Manuela Benetton on 6th June 2016, in collaboration with PAN and 33-33. It was supported by Initiative Neue Musik e.V."

Tracklist:

1. Pt. 1       59:30
2. Pt. 2      01:01:56
3. Pt. 3      58:36 

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Artist bio via the label:

"Marginal Consort is a Japanese avant-garde improvisational group comprised of sound artists Kazuo Imai (a student of Japanese free jazz linchpin Masayuki Takayanagi and occasional performer in both Taj Mahal Travellers and Takayanagi’s New Direction Unit), Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and Masami Tada (also in group GAP). Formed in 1997, the four members of Marginal Consort attended Takehisa Kosugi’s music classes at the Bigakkō art school in Tokyo in the mid-1970s, where they teamed up with other students to record East Bionic Symphonia’s debut album “Recorded Live” in 1976.

Since its inception, each year Marginal Consort holds one (or more when invited) annual concert at spacious venues in which they perform continuously, without interruption, for over three hours. Their extended set explores forms of sound and ways of playing that never coalesce into music but create a group dynamic of ebb and flow, exploration and fluidity. Their performance, which is completely free from abstract, political or sometimes mystical ideas about improvisation, neither contraposes the immediacy of action or anonymousness of sound against music nor dramatises the dialectics between the individual and the whole. Even the general idea of the words “collective”, “improvisation” and “project” do not really tell the way they work.

Marginal Consort performed at South London Gallery; St. Elisabeth Kirche, Berlin; Asahi Square, Tokyo; Kotoku Morishita Bunka Center, Tokyo; Mikawadai Junior High School, Tokyo; Super Deluxe, Tokyo; Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo; Macao, Milan; Instal 08, The Arches, Glasgow; St. John at Hackney Church (33-33), London; The Substation, Melbourne; Carriageworks, Sydney; Third Edition Festival, Stockholm; nyMusikk, Bergen; Borderline Festival, Athens; On the Boards, Seattle; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; PuSh Festival, Vancouver; Zebulon, Los Angeles; Pioneer Works, New York."

Artist : Marginal Consort マージナル・コンソート

Label : 901 Editions