TATSUYA NAKATANI solo and duo with KRIS TINER

Saturday, March 29, 4:00pm

Dagny’s Coffee Co.
1600 20th Street, Bakersfield
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Phenomenal improvising percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani, originally from Osaka, Japan, returns to Bakersfield for a special afternoon performance at Dagny’s Coffee Co. on Saturday, March 29. A tireless performer who has been featured at concert venues around the world, Nakatani has developed a dramatic and intensely moving approach to improvised music that incorporates drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows. Nakatani will play a solo set at 4pm and then will be joined by trumpeter Kris Tiner. The performance is presented by Epigraph Records, the local independent label that released their 2012 album RITUAL INSCRIPTION, recorded live in Bakersfield.

Critical praise for RITUAL INSCRIPTION (Epigraph Records lp-001)

“Tiner is free to fire strings of burning-hot brass lines and well-controlled blurts and blasts, while Nakatani wields unbridled creativity at his drum kit, striking and brushing skins and frames with a plethora of objets. The magic is there, and I was holding my breath throughout.”
– François Couture, Monsieur Délire (France)

“The music is raw, open-ended and strangely enough, deeply emotional… music that will grab you by the throat as well as make you dream… Highly recommended.”
– Stef Gijssels, Free Jazz (Belgium)

“Elastic, kinetic sounds mutate constantly, coloring a broad canvas through tight and thick interplay. No sound is obvious; the trio deserts common instrumental roles for inventive and challenging ones. The narrative of the improvisation is loose, but the fierce, intense sonic alchemy is arresting—an idiosyncratic language outlined spontaneously… brilliant and masterful.”
– Eyal Hareuveni, All About Jazz

“There’s something different happening in Bakersfield since the glory days of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. That at least is what would be suggested by the inaugural release from Epigraph Records.”
– Kurt Gottschalk, The New York City Jazz Record