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Drummer Noritaka Tanaka and Bassist Jason Ajemian met in 2001 playing Restaurant Jazz gigs with Jeff Parker.  Instantly decided to get something happening together where they could try and develop the connection on a regular basis.  They put together a quartet, which didn’t work out per say but Ajemian and Tanaka had the common mind and eagerness to work together that they decided to keep working as a duo.   They would get together a majority of days a week working on rhythm section connections and beat relationships; as well as, conceptual ideas of motion, movement, space and feelings of consciousness in terms of comfort and struggle in relation to sound.

Eventually, Ajemian began vocalizing his notebook within these states of sonic focus.   Many times this process constructed songs or referenced movement that became and idea that existed more than a moment.

They experimented tons with recording and figuring out how to make a record of the music they create.   Which they have finally had some success and are presently finishing a recording of some of their songs.   Arranged with Vibraphone, Tenor Sax and Trumpet.  Should be coming out by Spring 2008.

Look out for: Nothing That Exist, Belongs To You And What You Take, You Must Share. Coming 2008


Concerts

  2008 - Tokyo Public Performances

Press

"Bassist Jason Ajemian and drummer Nori Tanaka have been regular thursday-night  fixtures at Rodan, sometimes in a trio with guitarist Jeff Parker but just as often in an idiosyncratic improv duo.  Starting with precomposed melodic fragments, the music moves organically from Tanaka's fierce swirling grooves to Ajemian's meditative, standalone arco passages.   Ajemian adds spontaneous vocals that range from howled chants to original poems sung as the kind of raw, plaintive folk music that the native of Virginia's mountain country seems to have in his blood."

Peter Margasak - Critics Choice, Chicago Reader.

Foxy Digitalis Review of 'Never too Fat' 7"

 

Releases

MUSIC STORE Never Too Fat Too Fly
Vinyl
  01. side A never too fat to fly.mp3
  02. Side B Never Too Fat to Fly.mp3
   
   

SUNDMAGI Laboratory Standar Recordings

 

SELF TITLED

CD Release Self Titled - Sold Out

 

 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

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