CHAMBER JAZZ · 2023 · 55:44

鎌倉 Garden

Mio Tanaka & Strings

Permission to record inside the enclosed garden of a Kamakura temple was granted on one condition: the music must leave space for the garden's own sounds. Mio Tanaka built this chamber-jazz session around exactly that constraint. Her piano is joined by a string quartet (two violins, viola, cello), and the scores include written rests timed to let birdsong, wind through bamboo, and the distant toll of the bell tower participate as unscored voices. The result is one of the most distinctive recordings to come out of the Shonan scene — intimate and vast at once.

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