Ayumi Tanaka
Tanaka makes every note count – not one is unfelt.
- Andy Hamilton, The Wire
Japanese pianist and composer Ayumi Tanaka began her musical journey at age three, first influenced by classical music, later particularly inspired by improvisational music from Scandinavia. ECM recording artist Misha Alperin was among her mentors, studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2011-2016.
Ayumi made her ECM debut as part of Thomas Strønen‘s Time Is A Blind Guide band on 2018’s Lucus. In 2021 Bayou was released, a delicate and open trio music performed again with Strønen on drums and with clarinettist Marthe Lea, who also plays percussion and sings.
Subaqueous Silence, the pianist’s leader-debut for the label, was also released in 2021 and [...]
Tanaka makes every note count – not one is unfelt.
- Andy Hamilton, The Wire
Japanese pianist and composer Ayumi Tanaka began her musical journey at age three, first influenced by classical music, later particularly inspired by improvisational music from Scandinavia. ECM recording artist Misha Alperin was among her mentors, studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2011-2016.
Ayumi made her ECM debut as part of Thomas Strønen‘s Time Is A Blind Guide band on 2018’s Lucus. In 2021 Bayou was released, a delicate and open trio music performed again with Strønen on drums and with clarinettist Marthe Lea, who also plays percussion and sings.
Subaqueous Silence, the pianist’s leader-debut for the label, was also released in 2021 and sees Ayumi fronting her trio of Christian Meaas Svenson on bass and Per Oddvar Johansen on drums. BBC Music Magazine admired the “genuine jazz sensibility at work here, but conveyed as if by hypnotist’s power of suggestion rather than by fortright assertion. This set of short aphoristic pieces will delight anyone already familiar with her work and fascinate willing and receptive newcomers.”
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