Name: Wadachi
Brand: Tzadik Records
SKU: 731896
Price: 45.34 USD
Availability: InStock

Performer Notes

Compostela: Nakao Kanji (soprano & tenor saxophones, trombone, clarinet, drums); Shinoda Masami (alto saxophone); Sekijima Takero (tuba); Komazawa Hiroki (pedal steel guitar, mandolin).
Compostela: Nakao Kanji (clarinet, soprano saxophone, drums); Shinoda Masami (alto saxophone).
Personnel: Komazawa Hiroki (mandolin); Nakao Kanji (clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, trombone, drums); Shinoda Masami (alto saxophone); Sekijima Takero (tuba).
Additional personnel: Hiroyuki Komagata (pedal steel guitar).
Recording information: Hamamatsu-Cho Inkstick Suzue Factory (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Hirosaki Space Denega (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Hiroshima Namiki Junction (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Kichijoji Manda-LA (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Kyoto Taku Taku (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Kyoto University Seibu Kodo (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Osaka Muse Hall (10/10/1991-09/12/1992); Seoul Nanjang (10/10/1991-09/12/1992).
Photographer: Masashi Kuwamoto.
Wadachi is an album of light-hearted excellence. You'd more expect to hear it in Tzadik's Radical Jewish Culture series than the label's New Japan, but Compostela is, after all, a Japanese band led by the musician who brought chindon to jazz and rock contexts. The resulting music is a refined blend of Masada, an oom-pa marching band, and the inter-collaborating, madly versatile musicians on Montreal's Ambiances Magnetiques label (such as that heard on Jean Derome's Je Me Souviens). Compiled from recorded performances spanning 1991 through 1992, the music whirls, polkas, and hops with tightly crafted, breathing vibrancy, and can just as quickly lower the energy into beautiful measures strung together on the thread of a guitar played like an erhu on "Sign of 1," or a dirge on "Fallen Bird." Following these tracks, "Un Sterbliche Opfer" offers confounding, bright moments in which alto saxophonist Shinoda Masami delivers a strained tone and breathless phrasing that recall Albert Ayler's gospel renditions! Compostela's music is fun for all occasions, and with such interesting saxophone solos and reliably hearty tuba pulses, listening is uplifting time well spent. ~ Joslyn Layne

Album: Wadachi
#	Song Title	Time
1)	View in a Box
2)	S-1
3)	Two Maxims
4)	In the Rain...
5)	Sign of 1
6)	Remembrance of the First Time in My Life
7)	Yonnyo Atta Battenga
8)	Fallen Bird, A
9)	Sterbliche Opfer, Un
10)	March of Asyl
11)	Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz
12)	Plegaria a un Labrador, La
13)	Petite Fleur
14)	Pebble of an Estuary
15)	Lebedik un Freylekh

Album: Wadachi
#	Song Title	Time
1)	View in a Box
2)	S-1
3)	Two Maxims
4)	In the Rain...
5)	Sign of 1
6)	Remembrance of the First Time in My Life
7)	Yonnyo Atta Battenga
8)	Fallen Bird, A
9)	Sterbliche Opfer, Un
10)	March of Asyl
11)	Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz
12)	Plegaria a un Labrador, La
13)	Petite Fleur
14)	Pebble of an Estuary
15)	Lebedik un Freylekh