Kazuo Imai - Far And Wee LP Compilation Perception is under duress

Perception is under duress

and midnight rambles with friends from out of town

Tape loops and synthesizer sounds played backward conjure dark ambient moods

there's a good humoured approach to absurd

Kazuo Imai - Far And Wee LP Compilation Perception is under duressKazuo Imai is one of the few artists to traverse both Japan's early avant garde and free jazz movements. Though he began performing in the 1970's, his 2004 P. S. F. album "Far and Wee" was only the second under his name. In a series of thrilling acoustic guitar improvisations Imai's playing crackles with dynamic tension and physicality as well as a subtlety and nuance that reveals him as one of the instrument's true masters and innovators. In 2004,