Thousand Leaves

What's it about?

Italy, GreeceAugusto Pirodda - pianoGiotis Damianidis - guitar PROGRAM CHANGE!A thousand swirling, rustling leaves falling onto a sound compost, sometimes eerily quiet, sometimes exciting and wild. The 84-year-old Japanese pianist, who recorded with Albert Mangelsdorff in the early 1970s and composed psychedelic music for an anime film, and later not only composed for a choir of 1000 Buddhist monks but also arranged standards for Helen Merrill or Nancy Wilson, meets a Belgian-Greek guitar eccentric who grew up with punk, played for years in Fela Kuti's guitarist's band, and celebrates Free Jazz. Their first joint concert at Jazz Spot Candy in Chiba, Japan, from the year before last, is named "Thousand Leaves," which could refer to the "Manyoshu," the oldest collection of Japanese poetry, as well as to a metal band from Tokyo, and hovers somewhere in their intersection.