Otomo Yoshihide and Martín Escalant: Soto (Sploosh Records)

Are you ready to be rewired?

Both Yoshihide and Escalant work in a variety of genres and styles and have collaborated with a wide range of musicians. This duo recording pushes to extremes. Here are the basics:

Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar
Martín Escalante - Sax

Recorded by Kota Uematsu at SOTO, Kyoto on 05.30.19

Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug

Beautiful cover art by Ron Regé Jr.

*Yoshihide’s main project in the 1990s was Ground Zero, a large and omnivorous group with an ever-changing lineup. They played in a variety of styles, perhaps best summed up as noise rock, with an experimental caustic edge.

**Since the early 2000s, Escalante has preformed and recorded with a host of international experimental and outsider jazz musicians, including: Weasel Walter, Luis Toto Alvarez, Edén Carrasco, Oliver Steinberg and Matt Mottel, among others.

***At the end of the 1990s, Yoshihide founded Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, a group that played more traditional jazz.

****Otomo has also released duo albums with renowned experimental artists across disciplines and genres, including: Christian Marclay, Jon Rose, Yamatsuka Eye, Butch Morris, Voice Crack and poire_z.