hatNOIR 801 / SOLD OUT
Loren MazzaCane Connors
A Possible Dawn
Every composition in the world is an improvisation. What we've been led to call improvisation is merely a composition performed at one particular moment in time. And even the composer who works on his creations at home, where he has time to stop now and then to think over his moves, still has to improvise in order to bring the work into being. Everything has to be brought into being, to be born out of nowhere.
hatNOIR 802 / SOLD OUT
Taku Sugimoto
Opposite
Almost all the music on Opposite sounds like an attempt to reproduce on CD the kind of preternatural calm which descends on visitors to the Zen temples and public gardens which are hidden away down the back streets and side alleys of Japan's teeming urban centres. ... Sugimoto is an improvisor with an acute sense of timing and note placement, and the performances are suspended in a riveting tension—but the overarching mood is one of intoxicating tranquillity.
hatNOIR 803 / SOLD OUT
Loren Mazzacane Connors & Jim O'Rourke
In Bern
In fact, the art of O'Rourke and MazzaCane Connors lies in letting one feel the immobility within movement, and in instilling movement right at the heart of immobility. ... This music, figurative and non-figurative, almost oriental in its sparseness yet eternally rooted in the American landscape, invites the following thought—if John Cage had ever composed any country music, it would certainly have been very similar ... — Thierry Jousse
Hat Hut Records Ltd.
P.O.Box 521, 4020 Basel, Switzerland