Japanese saxophonist Katsura Yamauchi w / Arrington de Dionyso

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Wednesday, Dec. 5th @ The Funky Church Japanese saxophonist Katsura
Yamauchi w/ Arrington de Dionyso,
Jonathan Sielaff, and Matt Hannafin

Fresh from a 50 concert blitz through the wilds of North America with
the shaman-rock of Old Time Relijun, frontman Arrington de Dionyso
returns to his love of free improvisation with the bass clarinet and
throatsinging, in duos with Japanese underground musician Katsura
Yamauchi for a series of concerts in the Pacific Northwest. Katsura
plays every member of the saxophone family, and he is renown for his
intimate explorations of music in nature- he has made recordings of
his saxophone playing while almost completely submerged in rivers-!

Katsura has been active in the free jazz scene in Japan for nearly
three decades, and has played with many of the notable global
improvisers such as Otomo Yoshihide, Toshinori Kondo, Misha
Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Barre Phillips, and Michel Doneda, to name
only a few. Katsura's biography is especially interesting, as he was a
businessman for a very important Japanese company for many years and
chose to retire early with very little security to instead pursue his
music exclusively without any regard for compromise.