Tatsuya Yoshida, one of most innovative drummers on Japan avant-garde scene, will play two concerts in Czech Republic as RUiNS ALONE! Composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist Yoshida started playing music in early 80s, influenced by mystic French group Magma. In 1985, he founded RUINS, a duo of drums, bass guitar and vocals. RUINS are a unique fusion of contemporary music, hard-core and progressive rock. They soon became known all over the world and toured dozens of countries. For many avant-garde bands they were and still are a huge authority and an unattainable role model. RUINS have since existed in several variations, RUINS ALONE being one of them.
Yoshida has played and continues to play with many other groups such as Koenji Hyakkei, Korekyojin, Zeni Geva, Samla Mammas Manna, Painkiller, Cicala Mvta, Acid Mothers Gong, YB02, or in conjunction with individual musicians from around the world. These have included John Zorn, Haino Keiji, Richard Pinhas, Fred Frith, Otomo Yoshihide, Derek Bailey, Charles Hayward, among others.
Regular adventurous impro meetings of musicians not only from Brno, often with foreign guests, gathered around saxophonist, composer and improviser Radim Hanousek.
Here we go with non-archival one for start: Elton Dean's tune Seven For Lee recorded by KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE as first one in MY ONLY DESiRE Records 7" vinyl series of brit-jazz classics recorded by recent artists. Then there are two excellent sound quality GRAHAM COLLiER albums on MOD: British Conversations with Harry Beckett, Ed Speight and Swedish Radio Jazz Group from 1975 and sextet's Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days 1969. Next are numerous releases by BRiTiSH PROGRESSiVE JAZZ label: THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP on How Long This Time: Live 1970, another GRAHAM COLLiER with Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now suite, JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET's Eye To Eye: Live 1971, KENNY WHEELER BiG BAND with EVAN PARKER and CHRiS PYNE - Live 1971, MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Fambrough Technical College 1965 and DON RENDELL SEXTET's The Odysseus Suite from 1970. One reissue by CADiLLAC Records follows: self-titled sole album by quintet JOY from 1976, featuring Jim Dvorak, Ernst Mothle and Keith Bailey. Back to BPJ catalogue with JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA on Composition with Colour: Live 1971 and concluding with ELTON DEAN QUARTET's Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, including his trademark tune Seven For Lee again.
00:00 KEViN FiGES & YOU ARE HERE - Seven For Lee (7" single, MOD 2023)
04:39 GRAHAM COLLiER - Halo Round The Sun (British Conversations, MOD 2021)
16:05 GRAHAM COLLiER - Lullaby For A Lonely Child (Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days '69, MOD 2023)
22:02 THE KEiTH TiPPETT GROUP - In A Vacant Mood (How Long This Time: Live 1970, BPJ 2022)
30:40 GRAHAM COLLiER MUSiC - Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now - Part 3 (Where Will They Put The Blue Plaque Now, BPJ 2023, subscribers release only)
33:41 JOHN TAYLOR SEXTET - Awakening / Eye To Eye / Awakening (reprise) (Eye To Eye: Live 1971, BPJ 2021, subscribers release only)
43:10 KENNY WHEELER - CP EP (Live '71: The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, BPJ 2023)
49:23 MiCHAEL GARRiCK SEXTET - Requiem (Farnborough Technical College 1965, BPJ 2022)
54:27 DON RENDELL SEXTET - The Odysseus Suite part 2: Odysseus, King of Ithaca (The Odysseus Suite, BPJ 2022)
01:01:20 JOY - Spirals (Joy, Cadillac 1976)
01:07:52 JOHN DANKWORTH ORCHESTRA - Altisidora (Composition With Colour: Live 1971, BPJ 2022)
01:12:45 ELTON DEAN QUARTET - That's For Cha / Seven For Lee (On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan 1979, BPJ 2022)
