review in Jazz In Time No. 55, September 1994

Let us close this chronicle with ARP Muslc, my preferred choice. This unheard of music belongs only to these three exceptional musicians. The musicality of each instant and the constant inventiveness are taken to their apogee: the equilibrium is absolutely magic. I confess my total inability to give an account of this formidable alchemy, without the risk of conveying grotesque and simplistic images, of the genre "meeting between the free and the minimalism ", "improvised orientated classical music", etc. I will simply say a few words about each musician.

Trained at an early age at the classical piano, A Kuniyoshi, studied first in Tolyo, sang and played in clubs (!). Then she became a soloist in Europe and collaborated at the same time with improvisers (such as no less that Eddie Prevost, master of a whole generation of musicians). The Japanese musician has in so doing been able to assimilate and integrate distinct languages in order to reach a unique expression only proper to her with an astonishing richness and with an extremely rare cohesion.

Paul Moss the polyinstrumentalist, her musical partner for the last 12 years, also shows anw astounding mastery. Not only does he explore each instrument he uses in a very profound manner, but he also invents instruments and indulges in unusual vocal exercises. Used to improvisation and being very daring, he also understands what the meaning is of musicality.

Russell Lambert holds his role of accompanist with an exemplary maturity and appears each~ time with an a-propos which magnifies the ensemble: his precision and rightness of tune forces one's admiration.

ARP Music is a great disc, which sweeps aside everything that has previously mixed nostalgia~ with demagogy (a certain trait of a certain minimalist school ?).

Pierre Marly

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