audiounit 1

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Nishikawa Bunsho and Tim Olive (Japan)

Guitar, Record Player, Bass

Nishikawa Bunsho (guitar, record player) and Tim Olive (bass) have been playing together as a duo since August 2003. Nishikawa has performed with Alessandro Bosetti, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann and Martin Tetreault. Olive with Nakamura Toshimaru, Otomo Yoshihide, Sugimoto Taku and Unami Taku, and a long-term duo with Jeff Allport. However, their music as a duo is perhaps louder and noisier than their previous collaborations.
Based in Osaka, they have roots in the Osaka noise scene, and a non-doctrinaire approach to music making. A guitar, a broken record player and a bass with one string are used to create a wide range of textures and dynamics. Not noise, but sometimes noisy. Not "reductionism", but sometimes quiet.
For more information (including Real Audio), please visit the Gule Disk website or contact Tim Olive.

The evening was opened by an improvisation of Tim Olive, Nishikawa Bunsho, Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier.

recordings of this show:

• Nishikawa Bunsho and Tim Olive live @ audiounit (10,9 MB)
• Tim Olive, Nishikawa Bunsho, Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier live @ audiounit (24,6 MB)

videos of this show (<300 KB each):

• Nishikawa Bunsho and Tim Olive live @ audiounit 1a
• Nishikawa Bunsho and Tim Olive live @ audiounit 1b