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今年の6月に沖縄のアーティスト萬木忍さんとコラボレートしました。もともとプロデューサの方からアレンジの依頼があったので，一曲アレンジをしたのですが，その縁でライブをご一緒しました。六本木の島唄楽園というライブハウスでの映像です。

私がアレンジし曲はiTunes Storeでも購入できます(http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=280555975&s=143462)。デンサー節というトラディショナルを大胆にリハーモナイズしました。

I collaborated with Mr. Shinobu Maki who is a okinawan singer. In the beginning, My producer requested me an arrangement of song. I had worked as a arranger for his album. Consequently, I helped his live performance in June at shimauta-rakuen, Ropponngi. This is a video from that live performance.

His album is possible to buy at iTunes Store (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=280555975&s=143462). His voice is incredible. Song I had arranged is Densa-bushi which is traditional. I reharmonized whloe new face from original.

Date, Venue

Oct. 9 (Thu) - 12 (Sun) Tangente (Montreal, Canada)
http://www.tangente.qc.ca/

Oct. 17 (Fri) - 18 (Sat) LIG ART HALL (Seoul, Korea)
http://www.ligarthall.com/

Oct. 21 (Tue) - 23 (Thu) Aoyama Round Theatre (Tokyo, Japan)
http://www.aoyama.org/

Artists, Piece

Ayako HAMAGUCHI (Japan) , muteki (invincible)
http://www.ayakomin.net
third prize in 12MASDANZA Choreography Contest

a wispy breath in an abyss of devastation
thoughts about a record and a memory
I am still alive…may be


Choreography：Ayako Hamaguchi
Dance / Co-choreography：MILLA, Aki Tsujita, Ayako Hamaguchi
Music: Isao Horikoshi
Lighting Plan: Mitsuhiko Katada
Inspired from text “muteki (invincible)” written by Bo Okada

The Other Artists, Piece

Melanie DEMERS (Canada) , LES ANGLES MORTS (Dead Angles)

Yun-Jung KIM (Korea) , MEETING YOU


10月の始めからダンス作品の上演のために，カナダ，韓国，日本の３カ国ツアーに出ます。昨年のカナリア諸島でのダンスフェスティバル「MASDANZA」で賞を取った作品です。長丁場なのでちょっと不安ですが，ツアーは楽しみでもあります。音楽はコンピュータを使ったライブ・エレクトロニクスです。

Isao Horikoshi playing the Rick Wakeman's great Minimoog solo of 'Starship Trooper' from Yessongs.



Isao Horikoshi playing the Emerson Lake & Palmer's 'Trilogy'. Piano solo version.


Isao Horikoshi playing the Emerson Lake&Palmer's 'Tarkus Medley Pt.1'. (i) Eruption, (ii) Stones of Years, (iii) Iconoclast. Piano solo version.

title: Getting Started
date: Autumn of 1995
musicians: isao horikoshi (keyboards), former members of college's modern jazz society


これは1995年ころの学園祭でのライブ。Jazz研のOBバンドに混じって演奏しました。今でも気に入っている演奏です。KorgのDW-8000にギター用のエフェクターを通して，ギターのようなソロを弾いています。ちょっとYesの元メンバーであるパトリック・モラツを意識しています。

This is a live performance of campus festival in 1995. I played with former members of college's modern jazz society. I like it even now. I used DW-8000 manufactured by korg through the effector for guitar. I am playing the synthesizer solo like the guitar. I was a little conscious of Patrick Moraz who is a former member of british prog rock group "Yes".



title: Zero for Conduct
date: Autumn of 1997
musicians: isao horikoshi (computer, piano)



title: Jazz from Hell
date: Autumn of 1997
musicians: isao horikoshi (computer, piano), tsubuku (alt sax)


Jazz研最後の年（1997年）の定演の演奏です。MCにある通り，この頃は4ビートのJazzがとことん嫌になっていて，スタンダードを演奏するのはまっぴらごめんでした。血気さかんでしたね。今ではそんな気概も無くなり，頼まれればなんでも演奏しますが。使っているComputerは，当時でも既に古かったMacintosh Plus。Carl Stone氏の使用で有名な「M」を使って，Computerに即興演奏をさせています。私が所属していた大学のJazz研はそれなりに歴史がありましたが，これまでもこれからも，このような演奏が繰り広げられることはないでしょう。

This performance is the regular concert of college's modern jazz society in the last year of my belonging (1997). As you hear in MC, I hated old style jazz like 4 beat in those days. I don't want to play jazz standards. I was young and hot-blooded. Today, I don't persist to playing jazz. I will play every kind of music.

Through the performance, I used Macintosh plus. This machine was too old even at that point. I had computer play the improvised music, using program "M" which is known to be used by Carl Stone.

Modern jazz society which I belonged have a long history. But you will not hear a music like this performance, never ever.



title: 19930609
date: 9 June 1993
musicians: isao horikoshi (keyboard), nobuhiko shinzawa (drums), yano (bass)

Jazz研での演奏と並行して，大学内では仲間たちと即興演奏を繰り広げていました。夜になると大学の寮の食堂が自由に使えたので，毎晩そこで演奏しました。これは比較的バンドに近い，キーボード・トリオでの録音です。ちょっとカンタベリーっぽい部分もあります。24分間に渡る完全即興です。

In parallel with playing with modern jazz society, I was playing improvised music with some peers. We played music every day all night long, because it was free to use dining hall of college dormitory when the night comes. This recording is played by keyboard trio, comparatively near ordinary band. It look a bit like a canterbury music. It is completely improvisation extends to 24 minutes.

title: isao horikoshi thoughts

tracks:
01. other voice (4:29)
02. le deco (5:10)
03. my little red organ (4:55)
04. ballad #2 (2:15)
05. when - going from nothing - towards something (4:43)
06. vision fugitives (8:14)
07. while you were work (4:08)
08. i see you - my darlings, my queens (4:13)
09. pit and oscillator (5:39)
10. for the end of time (9:37)
total time 53:47

musicians: isao horikoshi (piano, computer), on tracks 2 and 6: with yow funahashi (sax)

produced, mixed & mastered by isao horikoshi

2004年ころにまとめましたソロ・アルバムを全曲公開します。ピアノと電子音楽です。中にはコンテンポラリーダンスの公演のために作った曲も含まれています。全部で50分以上あります。

I deliver all tracks of my solo album which compiled in around 2004. This is electro-acoustic music. Some tracks are made for contemporary dance's performance. Total tracks are 50 minutes or more.

なんとなく，二カ国語対応にしてみました。
I wrote in a bilingual somehow.