This collaboration with Junko and Masayoshi Urabe is just stunning; as beautifully controlled mercury tones arc across space, Junko’s screams just utterly under control. If you didn’t know what you were listening to was sung, it would be even more inscrutable than it already is. Saxophone and voice seem inseparable, indistinguishable - way more than complimentary they seem locked into each other, or maybe even the same thing, the same breathe filling four lungs. This is their first performance together outside of Japan.

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Junko & Masayoshi Urabe
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