Yas-Kaz

This time Studio Mule welcome japanese artist Ya-Sukazu Sato aka Yas-Kaz, a university-trained percussionist, that gained global success as a composer for the internationally known butoh dance troupe Sankai Juku, that tours around the world since 1975.

His infrequent musical amalgamation of ancient eastern genres, airy soundscapes, and ritualistic dance percussions perfectly accompanied the modern dance movements of an avantgarde dance group that is known for slow, mesmerizing dance passages, whose repetitive body movements sometimes focusing only on the feet or fingers. Besides his theatre work, Yas-Kaz composed scores for japanese movies, performed live along stars like US-american jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter or legendary japanese new-age musical group Himekami and recorded a number of collabo-rative and solo albums.

PERSONNEL:

• Masatsugu Shinozaki - (violin)
• Yasuhisa Shirao - (soprano sax)
• Yoshinobu Honma - /electric guitar, synthesizer)
• Shuji Tashiro - (synthesizer)
• Izumi Koga - (flute)

• SPECIAL GUEST:
• Wayne Shorter - (soprano sax on A2)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Djidanda
• A2. Virgo Indigo
• A3. Cara-Kira ~Windscape III~

• SIDE B
• B1. Wadji
• B2. Notari-Notari
• B3. Jasmin