Tetuzi Akiyama – Thaumaturgy [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop with an incendiary flamboyance

with an incendiary flamboyance

grabbed a stack of old vinyl (mainly sound effects and easy listening albums)

expands the trio's devastating explorations of improvised rock-based shapes

The audience played well and some of that gig made it on to this CD

Tetuzi Akiyama – Thaumaturgy [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop with an incendiary flamboyance"The intimacy of Akiyamas Thaumaturgy is immense. In nine short through composed pieces written over a ten year period, Akiyama captures something melodic, simple, and utterly transfixing. In his first instrumental solo acoustic guitar record in more than a decade, Akiyama, widely known for his improvisatory collaborations as well as his hypnotizing boogie drone guitar pieces, here works without effects and maintains a strict harmonic palette