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Alexey Kruglov/Masami Suzuki Song for My Friend. Seaside Conversation Contempora 022 Serendipitously drawn to sonically define sea coastlines these dual reeds duos consisting of one European and one Japanese player have created programs that are similarly imposing, but otherwise couldn’t be more different. Fishermen’s Souvenirs is a four-track, 50 minute display of manipulating and molding timbres from a collection of five recorders played by German Teresa Hackel and Japanese Eiko Yamada, improvised in the Fishermen's… Read More