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THE ERIC ZINMAN EXPERIENCE
with Toshi Makihara - percussion
Toshi Makihara - percussion (Philly)
John Voigt - bass
Eric Zinman - piano
Toshi Makihara is one of the major voices in Philadelphia’s New Music scene today. As an aspiring youth, Makihara studied drums, percussion and improvisation with Sabu Toyozumi, a prominent percussionist in Tokyo. Since arriving in the United States in late 1970s’ he has worked with various new music ensembles as well as with numerous dance and theater companies internationally. Makihara has provided original music to Arden Theater Company, Diversions Dance Company (Wales), Pennsylvania Ballet, ZeroMoving Dance Company and Leah Stein Dance Company among others, and has worked with musicians including Steve Beresford, Peter Brotzmann, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Eugene Chadbourne, Tom Cora, Amy Denio, Thurston Moore, William Parker and John Zorn. He has also collaborated with poets, visual artists, filmmakers and performance artists widely.
Since the fall of 2000, Makihara has been focusing on two separate performing styles: 1. New Jazz performances on a conventional drum-set, and 2. the “One Drum + One Cymbal” setting for his experimental free improvised music programs.
Makihara’s recordings include Grammy nominated “Another Shining Path” (1998 Drimala Records) in trio with Gary Hassay (alto saxophone) and William Parker (bass), and “Hurricane Floyd” (Spring 2000, Sublingual Records) in trio with Thurston Moore (guitar) and Wally Shoup (alto sax).
John Voigt - bass. He has sessioned, gigged, or recorded with Billy Bang, Borah Bergman, Peter Brotzmann, Roy Campbell Jr., Denis Charles, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Paul Flaherty, Bill Frisell, Malcolm Goldstein, Khan Jamal, Joseph Jarman, Keith Jarrett, Oliver Lake, Jeanne Lee, Joe McPhee, Jemeel Moondoc, Thurston Moore, Joe Morris, Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Paul Motian, Bern Nix, and Steve Swell. He is documented on Aum Fidelity, Ayler, Eremite, Box Holder, and RRRecords (a video with Thurston Moore). In New York he has played many Vision Festivals, the Sound Unity Festival, The Half Note, La Mama, St. Peters Church, Jazz Gallery, CBGB’s, Tonic, many Knitting Factory gigs.
Quotes: “In his hands the bass turns into a real talker, a mythical creature, a mouthpiece for the history of man. Voigt’s very personal musical metaphors should not be missed.” —The Improvisor, 1993.
John Voigt is “an avatar of creative music in Boston.” Cadence, Dec. 1997.
Eric Zinman - At the forefront of creative music for more than twenty years, Eric Zinman’s piano playing has been described by Cadence as having a “fleet and appealing touch” . Rooted in the language of his teachers Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Paul Bley, Lowell Davidson and many others, his style is marked by his relationship to the trap set drums, varying densities of sound masses and melodies spanning the whole keyboard with a surprising variety of touches, dynamics, phrasing, and silence. There is also an arresting balance between the pedaled and unpedaled sounds. Eric Zinman has played with Craig Schildhauer, Raqib Hassan, Sabir Mateen, Marco Eneidi, Lisle Ellis, Peter Valsamis, Tatsuya Nakatani,Glynis Lomon and Blaise Siwula, John Voigt and Laurence Cook. Mr. Zinman has also composed music for large ensembles, dance and theatre using verbal directives as well as graphical scores.
” Music for me is the mystery and joy of the present” -Eric Zinman
Production: Eric Zinman - studioZ@gis.net, ericzinman.com