GATO LIBRE
Post-Fusion Contemporary / 21st Century Modern • Japan
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Natsuki Tamura – trumpet Satoko Fujii – accordion Kazuhiko Tsumura – guitar Norikatsu Koreyasu – bass
Natsuki Tamura’s fascinating Spanish-inflected quartet is a real treat of exotic musical blending and creative musicianship. While these musicians all play all over Tokyo, this quartet’s home base is the pleasant Otoya-Kintoki, an intimate space that fits the music perfectly, sonically and atmospherically. This is a quartet that you want to hear up close, and while the club is not small, you have a sense of intimacy here that welcomes you into the delicate, lovely immediacy of the music.
Each evening Gato Libre, whose name means roughly “free cat” in Spanish, plays, they try out new tunes, written by leader Tamura. As a result, few of them have real titles, and Tamura calls them out, “Ma,” “Mi,” “Ya,” “Sa,” “Shi,” and “Su,” which gives them a very abstract and undefined quality. The tunes will surely be titled later, once
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Nomad
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2006
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Post-Fusion Contemporary
2010
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DuDu
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2014
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Post-Fusion Contemporary
2017
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Koneko
21st Century Modern
2020
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Kuro
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2008
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Forever
Post-Fusion Contemporary
2012
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