Kyoto Mon Amour by Eric Schaefer

Eric Schaefer

Kyoto Mon Amour

Format: CD
Label: ACT music
UPC: 0614427983527
Catnr: ACT 98352
Release date: 05 May 2017
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Label
ACT music

UPC
0614427983527

Catalogue number
ACT 98352

Release date
05 May 2017

"On Kyoto Mon Amour dominates the composure and purity. Splendid how Schaefer & Co. builds a very own world of sounds in which these traditional instruments like koto play a role."

Written in Music, 20-8-2017

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About the album

From Kyoto with Love
Eric Schaefer is much more than just a drummer who accompanies: he is an instigator, a composer and a creator. One critic called him the “central shining star of the German jazz scene.” He certainly brings wide-ranging inspiration to it. The music, philosophy and religion of Asia, and especially Japan have fascinated him for a long time, and he has undertaken several journeys of study there. In “Kyoto mon Amour” this passion is now documented on record. With Japanese musicians, he takes on the challenge of building bridges between Japanese and western music.

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Eric Schaefer (drums)

John Eckhardt (bass)

Naoko Kikuchi (koto)

Naoko Kikuchi (born in Sendai, Japan) studied koto as a child with her grandmother and mother. She also took lessons from Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and won prizes in a number of competitions. Subsequently, in 2007 Naoko received a year-long fellowship from the Japanese Government’s “Overseas Study Program for Artists” in order to study in Frankfurt, Germany, where she currently is a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Her repertoire consists of traditional and contemporary koto music. Naoko Kikuchi has participated in projects with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. She is currently Vice President of the Seigen Koto School in Akita, Japan.

Naoko Kikuchi (born in Sendai, Japan) studied koto as a child with her grandmother and mother. She also took lessons from Tadao Sawai and Kazue Sawai, and won prizes in a number of competitions. Subsequently, in 2007 Naoko received a year-long fellowship from the Japanese Government’s “Overseas Study Program for Artists” in order to study in Frankfurt, Germany, where she currently is a member of the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Her repertoire consists of traditional and contemporary koto music. Naoko Kikuchi has participated in projects with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. She is currently Vice President of the Seigen Koto School in Akita, Japan.

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Kazutoki Umezu (clarinet)

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On Kyoto Mon Amour dominates the composure and purity. Splendid how Schaefer & Co. builds a very own world of sounds in which these traditional instruments like koto play a role.
Written in Music, 20-8-2017

Besides a fantastic drummer, Schaefer is also someone who works well to connect his music to a conceptual point of departure.
Jazzism, 19-6-2017