Uplift by Tatsuya Nakatani, Rent Romus
Rent Romus and Tatsuya Nakatani join forces for this unique musical adventure. Recorded live at the Musician's Union Hall Local 6 in San Francisco, they cross borders from jazz, to unabated free improvisation.
Rent Romus - alto, c-melody, soprano, sopranino saxophones, flutes, squirl call, bells
Tatsuya Nakatani - drums, gongs, percussion
Tracklist
| 1. | An Offering | 7:29 |
| 2. | Before everything turns to ice | 2:04 |
| 3. | Find a gathering | 3:52 |
| 4. | Swing before the water falls | 2:10 |
| 5. | And the fires are stoked | 4:08 |
| 6. | Call of the Wild | 2:12 |
| 7. | Into the great beyond | 4:20 |
| 8. | Uplift | 4:06 |
| 9. | Feel the ground | 1:42 |
| 10. | Swinging from Starlight | 4:46 |
| 11. | The great path will always find us | 9:39 |
Credits
released March 4, 2025
All music by Rent Romus & Tatsuya Nakatani
Recorded October 1, 2023 by Michael Zelner
Outsound Presents SIMM Series Musician’s Union Hall Local 6 San Francisco
Cover art “Boiling Color” by AMP (Tony Passarell)
Photo by Michael P. Dawson
Video Tapestry by Lori “16 mm” Varga
All music by Rent Romus & Tatsuya Nakatani
Recorded October 1, 2023 by Michael Zelner
Outsound Presents SIMM Series Musician’s Union Hall Local 6 San Francisco
Cover art “Boiling Color” by AMP (Tony Passarell)
Photo by Michael P. Dawson
Video Tapestry by Lori “16 mm” Varga
License
All rights reserved.
Rent Romus hailed by Downbeat as having "a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction". A third generation Finnish American born in the great north of upper Michigan and growing up in the San Francisco Bay ,Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino.