Available Formats:
CD
Description
“Makes the (re-)discovery of Sakata a real pleasure and joy for the ears. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another twenty years before his next album is available outside of Japan.” – Free Jazz Collective
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Friendly Pants is the first American release by legendary Japanese saxophonist Akira Sakata in more than 20 years. It pairs the 65-year-old traveler alongside Chikamorachi, the bombast rhythm section of drummer Chris Corsano and acoustic bassist Darin Gray.
Since 2005 Sakata has been aligned with Corsano and Gray — a duo equally informed by underground American rock, noise & free jazz — and already issued two other smoked and blown out albums with them in Japan. On each of those they were joined by Jim O’Rourke, who remains in the producer’s chair for this session.
Released in:
2009
Shipping from: Chicago / Vienna
