Homosacer

Zoe LP
Makoto Kawashima 川島誠
- Alto Saxophone, Harmonica
Recorded September 16, 2022, GOK Sound, Tokyo
Engineered by Yoshiaki Kondo 近藤 祥昭
DMM cut at Pauler Acoustics, Northeim
Photographs by Funaki Kazuyuki 船木 和倖
Design by Rob Carmichael, SEEN
Produced by Peter Kolovos
Deluxe LP housed in tip-on jacket with gloss film laminate photo mounted on cover and printed inner sleeve.
RELEASE DATE: August 16, 2024
SKU: BE-1012, LP- $23
arteria CD
new solo CD "arteria" will be released on May 23rd.
Produce by Relative Pitch Records.
Album Title「arteria」
take1 「arteria」
take2 「vestigium」
Altosax 川島誠 Makoto Kawashima
Rec GOKsound 2024.7.27
Engineer近藤祥昭 Yoshiaki Kondoh
Photographer 潮来辰典Tatsunori Itako
Produced by Relative Pitch Records
"arteria page"

川島誠/Kawashima Makoto
Kawashima’s elevation of an idiosyncratic solo practice places him squarely within the lineage of iconoclastic Japanese saxophonists such as Kaoru Abe, Tamio Shiraishi and Masayoshi Urabe. At the outer bounds of improvised music, Kawashima’s work reveals a fragile spirit, one that gives as much emphasis to silence and minute sounds, perhaps hesitations, as it does to ecstatic bursts of tone and texture. His music is undeniably intimate and vulnerable, eschewing the bravado and bluster that have often become tropes in the world of solo improvisation; Kawashima summons searing melodic lines and heavily textured passages and just as abruptly lets them collapse, vanishing into the ether.
Perhaps more than anything, Kawashima is concerned with erasing the distinction between artist and instrument, the barriers between the internal self and the external world around us. “The alto is the only instrument that becomes part of my body. It’s like a soul that fuses together with my spirit. When I hold the instrument ready to play, something external to me appears behind me.” Kawashima weaves aspects of blues and spiritual music within harshly abstract passages and a harrowing vibrato that echoes Albert Ayler’s spirit. His personal experience and approach affirms these connections “I see spirits all the time. Shadows, phantoms. They appear at the border between your internal world and where the external world affects you. What I want to do is give a certain concrete reality to those things. The essential part of yourself that your internal eyes want to look away from. I try to make that concrete, to give it a melody and let it out.”
Next Live Performance
2025
5/17(sat)
山猫軒
DUO
w/Sayaka Botanic
18:00st
door/3000
7/5(sat)
渋谷公園通りクラシックス
落穂の雨 東京公演
18:30op
19:30st
adv/3000
door/3500
7/15(tue)
渋谷公園通りクラシックス
Duo
w/山崎比呂志
18:30op
19:30st
adv/3000
door/3500
2026
2/19(thu)
Solo
Cafe OTO(London)
2/20(fri)
Solo
Les Instants Chavirès(Paris)