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The Hand and The Moon, Part Two

by Yea Big and Tatsu Aoki

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    Pre-order of The Hand and The Moon, Part Two. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases August 16, 2024

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The Hand and The Dirt 05:04
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The Dirt and The Soul
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The Soul and The Dark
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The Dark and The Moon
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The Moon and The Hand

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The Hand and the Moon, Part Two shows two unique and captivating improvisers in a setting that enriches both of them. In a conversation that's only just begun, Tatsu Aoki (bass) and Yea Big (bass clarinet) maintain an extended focus, their instruments a lens through which to view human communication, the growth of community, and the meta-linguistic points connecting cultures and societies.

Tatsu's technique on the bass is as likely to stretch out on a joyful groove as it is to curl up in knots of noisy harmonics and scrapes; the tracks can turn without warning. Stefen, who first picked up a bass clarinet in 2021, brings a lifetime of dedicated improv skill to the instrument, initiating whole spontaneous compositions with a single unified gesture of breath, fingers, and full body motion. Together, their sympathy is almost unbelievable.

We often mistake the hand for the moon, tending to get fixated on that which points toward the thing than actually working to view and experience the thing itself. You're reading these words, and the words are about this music, but the music doesn't need words. But too: Without words, how would you know where to go? We're abstract beings. Tatsu and Stefen make sounds, music, which in its own turn points to a kind of love. It's lovely to hear their interaction, a blessing that these instruments and their total commitment to them facilitate such a rich dialogue.

The Hand and the Moon, Part Two will be available digitally from FPE Records August 16, 2024. Also available, a single cassette collecting both the previously released Part One (shamisen and bass clarinet) and Part Two.

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releases August 16, 2024

Tatsu Aoki, double bass
Yea Big (Stefen Robinson), bass clarinet

Recorded in the Summer of 2023 at Asian Improv Arts Midwest, Chicago
Recorded and mixed by Stefen Robinson
Mastered by Taylor Deupree, 12k Mastering

Cover art and design by Matt Erickson

Endless gratitude and love to Matt P and FPE Records for bringing us together.

This is FPE Records #65b, 2024.

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Yea Big Bloomington, Illinois

Yea Big is Stefen Robinson, solo and in collaboration. Multi-instrumentalist music-maker in Bloomington, IL. Sounds range from hip-hop to electro-acoustic compositions to free-improvisation. Other projects include Nønl!near Fi3ld (www.instagram.com/nonlinear_field/), Shoshin Trio (shoshintrio.bandcamp.com), and directing the NCHS Experimental Ensemble (nchsee.bandcamp.com). ... more

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