Various - Improvised Music from Japan

This is the mother lode that spawned the series. Ten discs containing pretty much all of the Japanese improvising savants that you could wish for! Just for good measure, you also get a 20 minute live performance by Incapacitants.

The Improvised Music from Japan label was created by Yoshiyuki Suzuki to document the Onkyō music scene that began to emerge in Tokyo during the late 1990s. Onkyō translates as "sound, noise, echo" and represents a form of free improvisation which is more interested in texture than structure. The Tokyo venue Off Site was the centre from which the "movement" emerged and the Off Site label also released music from the genre.

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