Masako Ohta, Matthias Lindermayr // MMMMH LP

ドイツ・ミュンヘンのピアニストMasako Ohtaとトランペット奏者Matthias Lindermayrが、2022年にミュンヘンのSquamaからリリースした共作レコードです。

アンビエント・ジャズ〜ネオクラシカル・アンビエント9曲を収録。180g重量盤です。

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12" black vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Trudelutt 05:03
2. Oli's Balloon 02:22
3. All Good Things Are Four 05:04
4. Tolv 03:13
5. Sora 03:45
6. Kogia 05:39
7. Ayet 08:49
8. Penguin 04:29
9. La 04:23

Text excerpt written by Vanessa Ague, via the label: 

"Pianist Masako Ohta and trumpet player Matthias Lindermayr’s music flows in gentle waves, moving with ease between every theme they imagine. Their music is largely improvised, embracing chance and following sound down winding paths. Their debut collaborative album, MMMMH, highlights this loose process through its relaxed pace, surprising turns, and drifting style. The album presents small vignettes that each encapsulate their free-flowing motion and tranquil melodies, drawing from simple ideas to create a fully bloomed, radiant sound.

Ohta and Lindermayr are two Munich-based artists who each have worked on a variety of acclaimed projects as soloists and collaborators. Lindermayr is widely praised for his work as a jazz soloist and in his ensemble Fazer, while Ohta is known for her work in classical and contemporary classical music, where she regularly undertakes projects that bridge genres and disciplines. While Ohta has also maintained an improvisatory practice throughout her career, MMMMH represents her first in-studio, improvisation recording project.

The two musicians first met in 2019 at an award ceremony—both were honored with the music sponsorship award of the city of Munich—where they quickly learned they loved each other’s music. From that performance, they decided to begin meeting up to improvise together for fun; when they got together and played, they were free, following the music wherever it wanted to take them. When it came time to turn their music as a duo into an album, they continued to embrace this intuitive approach. Many of the pieces on MMMMH started from a kernel of an idea—like playing a piece entirely using the pitch A (“La”)—then branched outward from there. But they never came up with anything too specific or restrictive. The process of music-making was spontaneous, built on embracing the idea of chance. In fact, some of the pieces are different every time they play them. Ohta remembers the spur-of-the-moment process as feeling “magical.”..."

Artist : Masako Ohta, Matthias Lindermayr

Label : Squama

cat no : SQM 018