Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii - Muku (2012) torrent

Libra Records: 102-031
http://www.librarecords.com/sne/cd71e.html

* Natsuki Tamura: trumpet
* Satoko Fujii: piano

http://natsukitamura.com/
http://satokofujii.com/

Reviews
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By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2012/09/satoko-fujii-natsuka-tamura-muku-libra.html

Regular readers know my appreciation for Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura, not
only wife and husband, but also musical soulmates, playing together on most of
their incredibly prolific oeuvre. This albums is their fifth duo album, after
"How Many" (1997), "Clouds" (2002), "In Krakow In November" (2006), "Chun"
(2008).

Although the "musical soulmate" concept is bizarre in their situation, because
of their totally different approaches to music. Fujii is incredibly innovative,
dramatic, abstract, expansive and angular. Tamura's music is more intimate,
melodic and melancholy (that is, when he's not totally 'out there' with his
other industrial noise approach). On this album, they lean more towards
Tamura's softer personality, also because most of the compositions are his, as
performed earlier with Gato Libre, his chamber quartet that is founded on
European urban street music.

On this album we get the unbelievably sad "Dune And Star" from "Shiro", the
playful "In Barcelona, In June", and the melancholy "In Paris, In February"
from "Nomad", and the waltzing "Patrol" from "Kuro", fo which the melody will
keep playing in your head for hours to come.

This is gentle music, and even when Tamura's trumpet once in a while goes into
grunting and blowing and farting, his tone is usually very warm and even
classical as much as jazz. And so is Fujii, demonstrating her broad
piano-playing skills that also span widely across genres and styles, using many
of them as if genres basically do not exist, just music. And like Tamura, her
gentle playing luckily also has sharp claws that can tear some anticipated
patterns to shreds.

Welcoming, beautiful and fragile music.

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By Dave Wayne
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43502

By Stephan Moore

By S. Victor Aaron
http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/08/25/satoko-fujii-and-natsuki-tamura-two-fer-muku-and-forever-2012/

Por Pachi Tapiz (es)
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=2153