Friendly Pants by Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi
Friendly Pants is the first American release by legendary Japanese saxophonist Akira Sakata in more than 20 years. It pairs the 65-year-old traveler alongside Chikamorachi, the bombast rhythm section of drummer Chris Corsano and acoustic bassist Darin Gray.
Since 2005 Sakata has been aligned with Corsano and Gray -- a duo equally informed by underground American rock, noise & free jazz -- and already issued two other smoked and blown out albums with them in Japan. On each of those they were joined by Jim O'Rourke, who remains in the producer's chair for this session.
Tracklist
| 1. | Friendly Pants | 11:30 |
| 2. | Un | 12:03 |
| 3. | In Case, Let's go to Galaxy | 8:38 |
| 4. | That Day of Rain | 9:13 |
| 5. | With Saigyo Path | 5:21 |
| 6. | Yo! Yo! Dime | 10:43 |
Credits
Alto Saxophone โ Akira Sakata
Double Bass โ Darin Gray
Drums โ Chris Corsano
Producer โ Jim O'Rourke
Mastered By โ Atsushi Mohri
Photography โ Heiko Purnhagen
Artwork โ Ayumi Sakata
Recorded at Magnet Studio, Tokyo, August 9, 2006.
Mixed at Steamroom, Tokyo.
Mastered at Columbia Mastering.
License
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Akira Sakata (ๅ็ฐๆ) was born in Kure-city, Hiroshima in 1945. Studied marine biology at Hiroshima university. Formed a group Saibo-bunretsu (Cell fission) in Tokyo in 1969, and was also performing with various free-jazz musicians during this time. Since the late 1960s, Sakata has been a constant figure in jazz and creative music scenes as an ever evolving and adventurous, multi-instrumentalist.