Aki Takase La Planète
Flying Soul
2014 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 220 
http://www.intaktrec.ch/220-a.htm

* Aki Takase: piano, celesta
* Louis Sclavis: clarinet, bass clarinet
* Dominique Pifarély: violin
* Vincent Courtois: cello
 
http://www.akitakase.com/ 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sclavis 
http://www.pifarely.net/ 
http://violoncelle.free.fr/

Recorded September 6, 7, 8, 2012 at Hans Rosbaud-Studio SWR Baden-Baden.
Sound engineer: Ute Hesse.
Recording engineer: Manfred Seiler.


Reviews
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By John Fordham 
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/aki-takase-la-planete-flying-soul-review

Japanese pianist and composer Takase is joined here by a chamber-trio of French
jazz virtuosi – Louis Sclavis (reeds), Dominique Pifarely (violin) and Vincent
Courtois (cello) – on music written for a mythical novel by her compatriot and
friend Yoko Tawada. Though there's plenty of improvisation, the music often
sounds contemporary-classical in tone and rhythm, often suggesting the
soundtrack for a ballet or the animation of a manga cartoon. The group is
light, agile and daring, tonally fastidious in its handling of lyrical
passages, but always open to the explosive intervention. Some of Takase's 15
short pieces are reticent, some are brisk dances, some are dark and shrouded –
and the closing sections also include older works by Takase and her German
pianist husband, Alex von Schlippenbach. There are delicate reveries such as
the conversational Into The Woods, and spiky episodes such as Rouge Stone, a
minute-long eruption of slurred strings sounds and banging piano chords. Turtle
Mirror (with its racing cello part and huffing clarinet) or the title track
with its rocking piano hook, running-feet rhythms and twitching, scary-movie
chords, are the kind of sophisticated, exciting and accessible pieces of
contemporary chamber-music this unusual set buzzes with.

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AKI TAKASE LA PLANÈTE. FLYING SOUL
Intakt CD 220 / 2014 
http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev220-a.htm

By Glenn Astarita 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/flying-soul-aki-takase-intakt-records-review-by-glenn-astarita.php

By Alberto Bazzurro (it) 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/flying-soul-aki-takase-intakt-records-review-by-alberto-bazzurro.php

Par Luc Bouquet (fr)

Por Pachi Tapiz (es) 
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=9956