Solo etc.

A record of fully improvised music by Ko Omura, Ryosuke Hashizume and Toru Nishijima, played without any prior discussion or rehearsal. Recorded on April 14, 2026 at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, the former atelier of Taro Okamoto. Built on an acoustic sound anchored by Omura’s tabla, the trio also brings in instruments such as the lyricon, suling and daxophone.

Ryosuke Hashizume — tenor & soprano saxophones, lyricon, suling, electronics
Toru Nishijima — bass, daxophone, violin, electronics
Ko Omura — tabla, bayan
All selections improvised by Ryosuke Hashizume, Toru Nishijima & Ko Omura
Produced by Akiomi Hirano / Recorded & Mixed by Takahiro Koizumi / Mastered by Masahiro Tabayashi / Art Direction & Design: Hiroshi Kurisaki

Interview (in Japanese): Mikiki, August 14, 2026 — by Kazunori Harada

What is visible and what is not. What can be heard and what cannot. What is felt and what is not. The left hand closes, the right arm rises, and falls. I cannot say why I chose to play that note next — but it happened within a larger flow, something that was meant to occur.

For this album, I entered the studio for two days and played almost entirely through improvisation, with nothing predetermined, following only what my body led me to do. What emerged through the contrabass was myself at that particular moment — a record of an instant that existed between who I had been and who I was becoming.