Marie Angeletti for The Shadow Ring’s Put the Music in Its Coffin Edition 4/5 vinyl record

Marie Angeletti for The Shadow Ring’s Put the Music in Its Coffin Edition 4/5 vinyl record

and ground-thumping drums played by the Brain Police’s Toshi Ishizuka—who appears on Tomokawa’s first three records and remains his collaborator to this day

the performance documents the moment he publicly jettisoned his identity as a jazz musician

Following a thorough harmonic investigation of her shaking practice in two parts

He had begun composing and presenting his own compositions

This edition includes “The Dancing Ear” and an introduction by Lawrence Kumpf

Upon its mesmerizing ebb and flow

This record of absurd

The Summer House Sessions ensemble joyously layers manifold cultural idioms

in this case

capture an array of post-collagist techniques

since which he has performed and exhibited globally

The recordings showcase Fulkerson applying his unique extended techniques for trombone to his own compositions