Satoh

Toyohiko Satoh - Lute Music from the Netherlands (1991) {Radio Nederland BFO A-16}
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Classical / Renaissance / Dutch / Lute

The Japanese lutenist Toyohiko Satoh (佐藤豊彦) is one of the most influential lute players of the last century. Born in 1943, he is now looking back on a career of over 40 years of lute playing, including 35 years teaching as a professor for lute at the Royal Conservatory of Den Haag, the Netherlands. Besides being a performer, he is also composing music for chamber ensembles and solo lute, as well as researching and writing about music.

Toyohiko Satoh - Works of Toyohiko Satoh II - Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo (1992) {Channel Classics CCS 4692}
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Classical / Contemporary Classical / Lute

Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo The group was founded in 1981 by the lutenist Toyohiko Satoh, along with other Japanese musicians living in the Netherlands who specialize in early music. The composition of the group varies for each project, with up to seven members being chosen from a regular core depending on the programme. Alba Music Kyo performs the music of the 14th-century Ars Nova (e.g. Machaut, Landini), 16th-century Elizabethan music (John Dowland, the music of Shakespeare), 17th-century Italian monody (Monteverdi, Frescobaldi), and contemporary music including Satoh’s own compositions (some of which are based on traditional Japanese melodies).

Masahiko Satoh - All-In, All-Out (1979) {Sony Music Japan SRCL1978 rel 1991}
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Jazz / Jazz Funk / Fusion / Piano

This unkown gem - that will amaze casual listeners and still conquer regular ones - stars both Masahiko Sato's talent in displaying a wide variety of tones and fusion scales and Dave Liebman's fierce and intense saxophone playing. Sometimes "All-in, All-Out" recalls Weather Report's edgy style of abstract fusion, and Sato's work here serves that purpose very well,which means, painting soundscapes simultaneously dreamy and cerebral. "Sapajou Walk" begins like an orchestrated blues lament, but by the time we reach "Fallout", the last track, we realize that this is not just a pop-oriented jazz thing, but a trip to something much deeper. This is truly great stuff, so check it out.

This CD is markable reissue of very rare first LP of Somei Satoh. Like several other composers of his generation, Somei Satoh has an affinity for mysticism and meditation, and he attempts to convey stillness and timelessness in his extremely slow music. His works may be described as ambient, but their minor key harmonies and step-wise melodies seem more conventional than the blurred, unearthly sonorities usually found in that atmospheric genre.

Recorded with Eddie Gomez and Steve Gadd, Satoh mostly plays acoustic piano but sounds most original when he switches to synthesizers. His music encompasses some semi-free sections.