Solo and ensemble concert featuring Tatsuya Nakatani with Raymond MacDonald - sax, Neil Davidson - guitar, Peter Nicholson - cello and Nick Fells - laptop.

Raymond MacDonald, Neil Davidson, Peter Nicholson and Nick Fells are all Glasgow based improvising musicians. They all work with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and are extensively involved in contemporary music of various kinds.

Tatsuya Nakatani is an Improvisational Percussionist.

Biography:
Originally from Kobe and Osaka, Japan, Tatsuya Nakatani has resided in the USA since 1995. He had been based in New York City for four years, but now resides in Easton, PA. He has been recognized as a key player in New York's ever-burgeoning creative music scene. His music often defies category or genre and is broadly influenced by various cultures as well as improvised music, experimental music, jazz, free Jazz, and rock.

An intense freedom combined with impeccable sensitivity and depth of thought characterizes his approach. He is widely recognized and sought out as a solo and ensemble performer. His elements of percussion are drum set, gong, cymbal, singing bowls, pieces of metal objects, various sticks and bows. In addition to live performances, he provides sound design for television and film, and collaborates regularly with dancers and visual artists. Nakatani has established an independent record label and recording studio 'H&HPRODUCTION; from where he dispatches his music creations to the rest of the world. He has been a recipient of the New York, Bronx Art council individual artist grant.

Past collaboration with:
Peter Kowald, Peter Brotzmann, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Otomo Yoshihide, Xu Feng Xia, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Ken Vandermark, Billy Bang, Frank Lowe, Assif Tsahar, Cooper-Moore, Jim Baker, Josh Abrams, Miya Masaoka, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda, Alessandro Bosetti, Gunda Gottschalk, Peter Jacquemyn, AndrŽ Goudbeek, Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri, William Parker, Masahiko Kono, nmperign, Joe McPhee, Michael Zerang, Phil Minton, Kyle Bruckman, Tatsu Aoki, Taku Unami, Jack Wright, Dave Dove, Donald Millar, Hill Greene, Daniel Carter, Kan Tae Hwan, UA, Rhodri Davis, Martin Archer, The Psychic Paramount Etc.
Dance/movement : Zack Fuller, Anika Kristensen, Claire Barratt, Chris Ferris, Ximena Garnica, Chantal Yzermans, and Camille Mutel etc.

Quotes:
"Nakatani's sparse punctuation suggests observance of esoteric ritual"
- Julian Cowley, The Wire

"Discussing all that beauty would take more roses than would fill this space" "focussed and resourcefulÓ
- Stu Vandermark, Cadence

"infallible intuition" and as "a brilliant percussion improvisor- he is capable of a wide range of sounds and qualities, and is always fully present, neither lagging behind nor rushing ahead. His work dances full of thought with an overall easy clarity and earthy groundedness."
- Maria Klein, Boss-Improv

"All this hits me like a vibrating temple of metal Ð a sense of vastness in a small room"
- Eric Zinman, Musician

" Tatsuya is a creator of great sonic spaces-including silences that are overwhelmingly loud, silences that have a granite-like strength and weight"
- Bob Falesch, Musician