S&D: Tetuzi Akiyama

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I saw this chap at Instal in Glasgow earlier this year and, at the time, I didn't get it. Now, I'm curious as I keep referring back to what I saw of him - sparse plucks on an acoustic guitar which were not tuneful but were to sparse to be dissonant and so sat somewhere very interesting in between. I'm beginning to really appreciate the directness of his approach, the delicacy of his performance and I would like to hear more.

His discography appears to be pretty vast so I'm looking for a little guidance.

[an audio sample of one of his tracks, to 'bluesy' and hectic to be too much like the instal performance can be found on the instal site]

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

"till we meet again" (with jason kahn) is duets (acoustic guitar/percussion) and solo pieces. based on your post you'd like it a lot. it's beautiful.

"relator" is nine solo acoustic improv pieces and recommended as well.

"don't forget to boogie" is solo electric and sounds kind of like john lee hooker. most of it is included on "route 13 to the gates of hell".

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

"don't forget to boogie" is one of my favorite albums of all time. Seriously. It sounds like somebody gave Billy Gibbons an IV full of sake and recorded him playing "Mississippi Queen" in slow motion

― roger, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm really getting into that clip on the instal site. It's really laid back but still really invigorating.

― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

The Instal clip reminds me of Taku Sugimoto's Opposite which is a great minimal-guitar record. I will definitely hunt this guy down. Why didn't I hear of him before?

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

"don't forget to boogie" is solo electric and sounds kind of like john lee hooker. most of it is included on "route 13 to the gates of hell"

one should note that it is not the digital version of DFTB but live versions of said tracks.

― imbidimts, Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I love this guy. Route 13 to the Gates of Hell is great and generally available. The Idea LP is long out of print unfortunately cuz I want it. I'm not as in to Pre-Existence but it's ok.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

saw him play last night, he did a solo kind of faheyesque acoustic thing, then jozef van wissem did some cool solo lute pieces which included folk music from the 1600s(?), both really good. they played as a duo at the end but it was overlong and meandered around too much (some dude in the back actually fell asleep and you could hear him snoring during the end of their set looooool)

― am0n, Monday, 28 January 2008 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

I saw "Captain" a few times in the early part of the decade, and no two shows were alike; in fact it was like seeing a different artist every time. Probably my favourite experience of him was a collossal wall of noise-type show in which he strummed an electric guitar for about an hour, with barely perceptible changes of note/chord. Not usually my sort of thing, but it worked fantastically well.

― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 28 January 2008 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

eleven years pass...

this track reminds of "don't forget to boogie" w percussion
nice homage!
https://75-dollar-bill.bandcamp.com/track/tetuzi-akiyama

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 July 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

Che Chen of 75 Dollar Bill made a record with Tetuzi a few years back called Cold Soup. Don't know if it's still around but I remember it being really great (and really noisy)

― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 19 July 2019 01:36 (six years ago)

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