Lucky Names by Cristián Alvear, Makoto Oshiro, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Ura

« Makoto Oshiro, Hiroyuki Ura, Shinjiro Yamaguchi and I met in Tokyo in the fall of 2016. Forming two trios, we rehearsed, performed and recorded.
Lucky Names consists on three pieces, recorded live at Omise and l-e, as the product of the encounter of the group and the musical ideas of Makoto Oshiro, Nicolás Carrasco and Shinjiro Yamaguchi.
Without any specific goal or aim in mind, our idea was to explore the open and multiple possibilities of our engagement with the scores, to witness the scope of what could be produced, as group and individuals, through music and sound. »
— Cristián Alvear

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Makoto Oshiro (b. 1978, Okinawa) is a Tokyo-based performer and artist. His primary medium is sound, but he also combines other elements including light, electricity and movement of objects. In live performances, he uses self-made tools and instruments that are based on electronic devices, every day materials, and junk. His installation work handles sound as a physical and auditory phenomenon, and focuses on characteristics such as vibration and interference. He has recently released his first solo CD Phenomenal World on Japanese label Hitorri. He is also a member of the the live installation / performance group The Great △ with Takahiro Kawaguchi and Satoshi Yashiro.

Cristián Alvear is a chilean (b.1979, Osorno) musician dedicated to the performance, premiere and recording of experimental and contemporary music. He serves as curator of the experimental music festival Relincha, in Valdivia, Chile and he conducts, along with Santiago Astaburuaga, LOTE, ensemble whose work is to perform experimental scores.
He has been constantly performing in Chile as well as international festivals and concert venues in Europe, South America and Asia. Over recent years he has concentrated its efforts in performing educational concerts in rural areas of the Los Lagos region, in southern Chile.
His work has been published by Edition Wandelweiser Records (DE), Irritable Hedgehog (US), Another Timbre (UK), Potlatch (FR), 1000Füssler (DE), Caduc (CA) and B-Boim Records (Austria) among others.

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