Tatsuya Nakatani, improvisational percussionist. Born in Kobe Japan 1970, raised in Osaka. He has resided in the USA since 1995 and now bases himself in New York where he is recognized as a key player in the improvised music scene. His elements of percussion instrument are Drum set based Orchestration percussion kit, Bowed Gong, Cymbal, Singing Bowls, Various sticks and Drum set. He stands between the MUSIC categories, genre and cultures, Experimental, Jazz, FreeJazz, Rock. Many voices come from his approach of creation. Besides live performances, he also provides sound, sound design for Television, Film, collaborations with Dancers and artists.

This year's work in 2003 includes: USA tour with Billy Bang Quintet featuring Frank Lowe, Sabir Mateen Ensemble, Solo tour in Europe and USA, Solo percussion performance at Bronx Museum in New York, Tour in Japan with Assif Tsahar, Perform at NY Butoh Festival, NY Vision Festival and AFUK festival in Copenhagen Denmark.

Recipient of a New York,Bronx Art council individual artist grant.

He also established a music and dance studio “H&H PRODUCTION” in South Bronx from where he dispatches his music creations to the world.

   
PRESS QUOTES

"Discussing all that beauty would take more roses than would fill this space." - Current Ensemble Stu Vandermark, Cadence

"focussed and resourceful" Cadence

"infallible intuition" and as "a brilliant percussion improvisor- he is capable of a wide range of sounds and qualities, and is always fully present, neither lagging behind nor rushing ahead. His work dances full of thought with an overall easy clarity and earthy groundedness." Maria Klein“Nakatani’s sparse punctuation suggests observance of esoteric ritual” – Julian Cowley, The Wire

“All this hits me like a vibrating temple of metal – a sense of vastness in a small room” – Eric Zinman

“Tatsuya is a creator of great sonic spaces-including silences that are overwhelmingly loud, silences that have a granite-like strength and weight – Bob Falesch
   
 

DISCOGRAPHY:

COME SUNDAY Assif Tsahar - Hopscotch

13 definitions of truth duet with Peter Kowald - Quake basket

YUKIJURUSHI - Mary Halvorson, Clayton Thomas - H&H

MAP - Eiji Obata, Todd Nicholson - H&H

The Labyrinth - Assif Tsahar’s New York Underground Orchestra - Hopscotch

Bowed Metal Orchestra - Solo metal composition - self release

Zuihitsu - James Coleman, Greg Kelley, Vic Rawlings, Bhob Rainey, Liz Tonne - Sedimental

This is nmperign’s second CD - Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey - Twisted Village

Fetish- Dave Gross, Mike Bullock - Tautology

There the eye goes not - Mike Bullock, Bhob Rainey, Brenda Hopkins -Tautology

a-un - duet with Kenta Nagai - self release

Field recordings, volume one birthday

Saturnalia - Jonathan LaMaster - Sublingual

Nmperign - Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey - Twisted Village

Real Time Sachimay Dan DeChellis, Phil Tomasic
Boston Under Belley - Sublingual Compilation

Green Report 1-9 Cassette series - Solo, James Coleman, Mat Samolis, Sim Nuabueze, Ann Yonetani, Vic Rawlings - self
   

 

CURRENT BANDS & PROJECTS:

Bowed Metal Orchestra - solo project

duet with Assif Tsahar

Sabir Mateen’s Shapes, Textures and Sound Ensemble
Sabir Mateen(saxophones, flute, clarinet)
Steve Swell(trombone)
Matt Lavelle(trumpet, flugelhorn, bass clarinet)
Matthew Heyner(bass)

MAP
Mary Halvorson(guitar)
Clayton Thomas(bass)
“Blue Color”
Nate wooley(trumpet)
Steve Swell(Trombone)

Tsou, Dempster, Nakatani Trio
Shu-ni Tsou(Chinese bamboo flute)
Loren Dempster(cello)

Doneda, Wright, Nakatani Trio
Michel Doneda(s sax)
Jack Wright(a sax s sax)

Zack Fuller Butoh dance group
Zack Fuller(dance)
Jonathan Vincent(accordion)“Yukijurushi”
Eiji Obata(guitar)
Toodd Nicholson(bass)
Tatsuya Nakatani(drums and percussion)

Todd Nicholson Quartet
Todd Nicholson(bass)
Steve Swell(Trombone)
Nate wooley(Trumpet)


PAST COLLABORATIONS with:
Peter Kowald, Peter Brotzmann, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Sabir Mateen, Xu Feng Xia, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Ken Vandermark, Billy Bang quintet w/Frank Lowe, Assif Tsahar, Le Quan Ninh, Michel Doneda, Gunda Gottschalk, Mat Maneri, William Parker, nmperign, Tim Barnes, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jane Wang,, Michael Zerang,, Jack Wright, Jim Baker, The Psychic Paramount. Dance/movement with Zack Fuller, Anika Kristensen, Claire Barratt and many other artists.