Turntablist & guitarist Otomo Yoshihide, one of the most important members of the Japanese experimental/avant-garde, joins the ever genre-evading alto saxophonist/composer Chris Pitsiokos. The prodigious shared vocabulary of the two spans the gamut between noise, free jazz, musique concrete, and scronk. Indeed, whatever sounds lurk behind the next corner are always unknown, but paradoxically feel inevitable once they have happened.
“Even after nearly a decade of working together, Yoshihide and Pitsiokos are far from exhausting the possibilities of their improvisational practice.”
– Levi Dayan, Dusted
“Live in Florence is set of seven improvs highlighting the give-and-take between Yoshihide and Pitsiokos, where the only rule is to not adhere to rules about music. It’s not harmony or rhythm, it’s primal pulse and vibrations.“
– S. Victor Aaron, Something Else
Otomo Yoshihide
— guitar, turntables
Chris Pitsiokos
— alto saxophone
available periods
5th – 11th April 2027