Thursday, October 7, 2021

Satoko Fujii / Alister Spence - Any News (October 1, 2021)

Any News is an album of piano duets recorded over the internet between Kobe, Japan and Sydney, Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic. Satoko and Alister began to collaborate on this project early in 2020 and develop ideas for co-written piano duet pieces, meeting occasionally on the internet to rehearse and explore. This album is the result of three recording sessions in September 2021. It is the second duo release by Fujii and Spence, following on from their piano and fender rhodes album intelsat (2018, ASM007).

‘this is the sound of genuine discovery, founded upon decades of experience but unfettered by habit.’
Bill Meyer, Dusted Magazine (review of intelsat)

1. Dice Piece 2 04:29
2. Across the Equator 09:32
3. improvisation 1 05:46
4. The First Day of Autumn 11:07
5. Puzzle Piece 06:04
6. Dice Piece 3 05:03
7. Ping Pong 03:37
8. Improvisation 2 11:07
9. Dice Piece 1 03:57

Satoko Fujii – piano
Alister Spence – piano