Music, art, words, interviews, film, books inside books, bad puns, star charts and more, made by hand.

Here is a short video tour: youtu.be/lnP6pGLdSDg
And a review from JazzTokyo (Akira Saito): jazztokyo.org/reviews/cd-dvd-review/post-73739/

(google translated below)

I. “Luego Luego” Magazine - interviews, essays and more with 18 artists and cultural practitioners, 78 pages. Read online here: issuu.com/nellanairb/docs/i._luego_luego_magazine

Interviews with Simon Allen (composer/performer) New Zealand/UK . Melissa Biggs (cultural anthropologist) Austin . Brad Clymer (artist/musician) Brooklyn . Guadalupe Galván (poetry/cooking) Mexico City . Gen & Rika (children) Kawasaki . Tom Kessler & Miriam Leo (musicians) Berlin . Dominique Leone (musician) Dallas . Akira Saito (author/music journalist) Tokyo . Carolyn Bond Swan (Spanish teacher) New Jersey . Agnes Tandler (journalist) Sapporo . Mark Weaver (architecture/art/music/concert organizer) Albuquerque . Essays by Guadalupe Galván "The Maps Are Us" . Natalia Pérez Turner (Mexico City) “About Films, Memory, and Other Stuff” . Sum Suraweera (Colombo) “Baliphonics: Adaptation of Sri Lankan, Low Country, Bali Ritual Music on to the Concert Stage” . & Recurring Food, Humor, Music and Travel Columns with Chef Eduardo Alcayaga (Houston/Santiago), Hearty White (WFMU) and BA

II. “Fiends” - album (CD-r) with a spectacular group of musicians, an ode to fiendship, a collage of new and unreleased studio, live and archival recordings. Over 40 of my compositions (orchestra, wind, chamber and jazz ensembles) and a few improvisations are "sampled" and reassmbled for my fiends to play together. The audio of Roswell Rudd's voice is taken from cassette recordings I made of our lessons in 1997-1998. With Mark Aanderud, Eduardo Alcayaga, Brian Casey, Brainkiller, Royce Chambers, Brad Clymer, Corey Fogel, Tom Kessler, Jacob Koller, Dominique Leone, Natalia Pérez, Gabriel Puentes, Jorge Servin, Dave Treut, Dave Wayne and Mark Weaver and the voice of Roswell Rudd.

Three Short Fiends Animations:
1. youtu.be/HQ9akM_c3Uo (Introduction)
2. youtu.be/g7LU5OXDRyE (Brainkiller Video Game: Chasin the Brain & Escape from the Black Trombone)
3. youtu.be/CSMsgbrRm6o (Fiends Origin: You Say He's Just a Fiend)

III. The Epostrophy of Aphoristacles - book of 88 phrases and drawings and 4 chambery compositions (CD-r) by the fictitious (?) philosopher. 10 Piano and Percussion Etudes, Sonata for Trumpet, Bass, Trombone and Atari, Woodwind Quintet and electronics, Organ Solo. Coming to Bandcamp March 22

IV. Songbook - 8 simple piano pieces in 3/4 time, with lyrics and architectural/landscape illustrations

V. Calendar(io) for October/Octubre in English y Español, based on the 2012 calendar of Guadalupe Galván y yo

VI. Música Hallada (found music), misc. parapegma in collage

VII. LYRA I
“Sounds of” CD-r. Field recordings from the island
“the Movie” DVD-r. 45 minute film with music (see short preview here: youtu.be/JcTVQLXBFZ0)
Circles - something to do with your hands
Instrument - a mariner’s device, though it can be used to count or accompany clouds, syllables and birds
Book of Drawings - sketches of the island

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Jazz Tokyo Review by Akira Saito (google translated via jazztokyo-org.translate.goog/reviews/cd-dvd-review/post-73739/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en)

Current Issue
No. 286

CD / DVD Disks No. 286
# 2154 "Brian Allen / Almanac"
February 5, 2022 Satoshi Saito 0 comments Free improvisation , Brian Allen

Text and photos by Akira Saito Satoshi Saito

Brian Allen, an American-born trombone player, is a mysterious person. For example, "Synapse" (Braintone Records, 2005), which was improvised with top New York musicians such as Tony Malaby (saxophone) and Tom Rainey (drums), is a jazz-like free improvisation and is audible in that context.

But mystery isn't just about being a musician. He noticed that when he came to Japan in 2018. In the trio performance with Junji Hirose (saxophone) and Darren Moore (drums) at Ftarri of Suidobashi, the sound of the two resonates with the vibration unique to the trombone, and in the solo, the toys lined up on the floor and the trombone make a pleasant sound. Created a space. It was impressive that the two little girls who once taught the piano were watching it seriously. His sound is open to the outside.

Brian's "perisphorus" (2017) was an amazing piece. A muttering booklet that begins with "We drove Nada the other day. Nada, Texas. Neither Nada nor Nara in Japan." The DVD I put in was in an elongated envelope, which made me forget the time. The images are studded with crowds of Japan, Mexico, and the United States, rain-soaked car windows, wild mountains, and insects crawling on plants floating on the surface of the water. The sounds of musical instruments were layered.

This time, Brian has released the handmade set "Almanac" (2022) again. In a square book, an interview magazine "Luego Luego Magazine" (I was also interviewed as a writer), a collection of sound sources entitled "Fiends" (devil), a booklet "The Epistrophy" and an attached CD, sheet music " "Songbook", typography-like picture book "October" using the calendar of October 2022, collage art "Musica Hallada" using origami, branches and pieces of paper, and a set of video DVD and CD "Lyra I" It's packed with so many things that make you laugh.

"Fiends" is a collection of 26 songs since the 1990s. With so many, it's like a sound collage and you won't get tired of listening. Changing co-stars, Brian has been a part of the trombone, keyboards and drums all the time, so the sound is straightforward. A variety of things seem to make you feel the charm of the cloud-like sound of the trombone. Listen to Tom Kessler's refracting and rampaging guitar, master Roswell Rudd's voice, Natalia Perez's cello and trombone ensemble, and Fernando Alkayaga's organ that puts in and out the slamming sound elements. There are many places. Tom Kessler also enjoys talking about the difference in Berlin's noise compared to his hometown of Mexico in Luego Luego Magazine, and it's interesting that dialogue between mobiles can be realized in such a work. is. Natalia Perez talks about her beloved films, including her Kurosawa and Ozu, in the same magazine, and she also gives us an idea of ​​improvisation and film perspectives. The back of the sleeve inside the booklet seems to resemble the design of the old Blue Note Records, which is fun.

In The Epistrophy, "Your voice is a cake" and "Your voice is a sake" (c is rewritten with a pen), dazzled by the strange phone text between Brian and Osiris. I'm happy with the words. The co-starring of David Burrow (trumpet) and Michael Formanek (bass) on the CD is a wonderful combination of playing in outer space and the superposition of acoustic sounds. When I was entrusted to the flow of the ensemble that concludes the end, I was surprised when an announcement from a Japanese station was suddenly inserted. After all it is not straightforward.

『Lyra I』の45分間の映像は、『perisphorus』よりも多くの場所を瞬間移動し続け、その分、思索から移動の愉しさに焦点が当てられているように思える。2016年から20年までの間にブライアンが足を運んだ場所のようであり（わずか5年間でコスタリカ、日本、クアラルンプール、メキシコ、モロッコ、スペイン、スリランカ、スイス、トルコ、アメリカに！）、コロナ禍のいま、なおさら旅心をくすぐられてしまう。冒頭に森の中から電車を見下ろす場面があり、風景に既視感があったのでスリランカかなとブライアンに訊いてみたところその通りだった（デモデラという山中の駅であり、筆者もごく近くの山村に泊まったことがある）。サウンドはやはりブライアンがさまざまな楽器を演奏したものだ。上述の『synapse』のCD未収録音源も使われており、トニー・マラビーのテナー、トム・レイニーのドラムスそしてブライアンのトロンボーンとの合奏が、日本の街角や旅の光景とともにあらわれるのは奇妙でもある。ブライアンのバルブ・トロンボーンとロイス・チェンバースのテナーとのデュオでは音が太くなり、映像のありようにも影響を与えている。

改めて実感した。ブライアン・アレンのことを旅する音楽家と呼ぶだけでは不十分だ。かれの視線や表現が旅そのものなのだ。

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