Sato Yukie

0.03《0.03》(flas－0031)

This album was released when the improvisation band 0.03(point zero three) by Sato Yukie(g), Higuchi Keiko(vo) and Mori-shige(cello) came to Korea 2008. From Mori-shige’ s label. This has 11 tracks, all improvised, from too high speedy sound to deep shamanism. Recorded at studio 2005-2007. These are many kinds jackets by all hand-made, Japan versions and Korean versions.
http://www.myspace.com/pointzerothree

Yagihashi Tsukasa + Sato Yukie + Higo Hiroshi《The Temple of No Power No Virtue》(Cohort Records CRCD 120)

This is released from Cohort Records in US in 2006. It was recorded at Muryoku-muzenji, Tokyo in Sep 2005. It is noise improvisation changing slowly. And it feels like Zen, too. Psychedelic free Jazz! You can hear one of the best by this trio, Yagihashi Tsukasa, Sato Yukie and Higo Hiroshi. Ltd.100copies.
http://cohortrecords.0catch.com/

Phil Minton+Yagihashi Tsukasa + Sato Yukie + Higo Hiroshi《Nippara·Tokyo》(Austin Record ARR-0017)

2006 released. This CD is played by quartet of Phil Minton, Yagihashi, Sato and Higo. The first half is recorded at former Nippara elementary school (Tokyo), The other half is live-recorded at Muryoku-muzenji. The first half is “quietness” and the other is “activity”, isn’t it? Sometimes it has cross-inter-play with unimaginable miracle voice of Phil Minton. However in whole CD quiet insanity is drifting.

Yagihashi Tsukasa + Sato Yukie + Higo Hiroshi《Kumisuru》(Jabrec NJ-02)

This CD is the first released by Jabrec which is the indie label by Yagihashi and Sato (till this CD every work is made by CD-R).This was released in March 2005. The trio of Yagihashi, Sato and Higo started in 2002. They have done some tour with Phil Minton, collaboration with dancer Ishide Takuya, and so on. All tracks of this CD were improvised by three persons, and have no overdubbing. You can listen to psychedelic noise improvisation like a mirage appearing and disappearing.

Sato Yukie 《It's a Rainy Day》(Jabrec Korea JK-04)

The second solo of Sato Yukie is very conceptual work. We can listen to guitar sound distantly and faintly while rain falls violently. No over dubbing, no mixing operation, it recorded at once. It was raining out side of window. This is improvised collaboration with nature. You can feel 1/f and alpha waves. Is this ultimate healing music, isn’t it?

Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sato Yukie 《4462 sec》(Balloon & Needle bnn8)

This is the collaboration of Sato Yukie and Astronoise, Choi Joonyong & Hong Chulki. This was made in January 2004, according to the Japanese live tour by this trio.
This CD has following recordings - live performance by trio in Bulgasari vol.9, sound of the collaboration with Japanese dancers at the subway station, and sounds recorded by trio at the end of year 2003. All 4 tracks, 4462 seconds (74 minutes and 22 seconds).
This CD has contents that are rich in change, containing various elements, such as noise, electronic sounds, improvisations, and drone music. And we can also listen to powerful sound.

Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sato Yukie 《4462 live》(Jabrec Korea JK-03)

This is the live recording of the above-mentioned album. Album《4462sec》is based on directly line recording, but this uses the live sound source then recorded with the one spot microphone. It may be interesting when two CDs are heard and compared.

Choi Sun Bae + Sato Yukie 《Instant Demo》(Jabrec Korea JK-01)

Live recording from 2001 to 2002 in Seoul according to duo with trumpeter Choi Sun Bae.
Sound which flows cool and quiet elegant simplicity. If it appears, it disappears, and if it disappears, it appears. Just like slowly waves in a big river. It is ambient jazz meditation.

Choi Sun Bae + Yamamoto Seiichi + Sato Yukie
《First Meeting in Seoul》(Jabrec Korea JK-02)

Single CD. Recorded at La Cle (Seoul) in August 2003. Yamamto Seiichi(ex. Boredoms) played guitar by a bow, and Sato Yukie played CASIO digital guitar DG-7. On the supreme drone that the two persons were playing, the trumpet of Choi Sun Bae exploded. It is psychedelic and ambient improvisation.

Sato Yukie 《Solo 1977-2000》(Jabrec-14)

The first solo of Sato Yukie is the anthology collection of works that includes sound source from his junior high school student days. Vocalization, noise collage, acoustic guitar home study, and the first solo improvisation live performance. It is the crazy and miracle world.

Toyozumi Yoshisaburo+Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie
《Seoul Subway Live》(Jabrec-13)

Live document with Toyozumi Yoshisaburo, who is one of the pioneers of Japanese free improvisation, recorded in the subway station of Sadang and Jamsil (Seoul) in April 2001.
It was nothing but sound and echo of a subway station yard. People were gathering, but they had not known about improvisation, they were just common people. Toyozumi used only snare drum and Puk (Korean traditional drum). He run around station yard and played more powerful than usual. And Sato Yukie played acoustic guitar that amplified by contact pick-up microphone, Yagihashi Tsukasa blew saxophone with natural echo sound. You can listen to the exciting play of three.

Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie+Morishuge Yasumune
《Uzumakeru Tenohira-no Uchigawa-no Teien》(Jabrec NJ-1)

“Sound automatic drawings” - Saxophonist Yagihasi Tsukasa (he is a painter, too) plays. He draws pictures with pens furnished with the contact microphones, and amplifies the sound made by drawing. Cellist Morishige Yasumune flips the other side of a bridge, and scratches strings (and he also amplifies). Not ordinary sound comes from table guitar that Sato Yukie plays. This is a noise battle by three persons.

Studio Kai percussion-unit “TAKATAKA”
with Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie+Tenda Toru《Life Beat!》(Jabrec TK-01)

The mentally handicapped person institution "Studio Kai", based on Hiratsuka (Yokohama), is already the famous art group in Japanese modern arts. And not only pictures, they have started music.
TAKATAKA is the percussion-unit that belongs to "Studio Kai". Yagihashi and Sato are continuing collaboration with them from the beginning of TAKATAKA. This is the live recording at Yokohama "Ku-cgalla" in April 2003. A primitive beat revives now.

Yoomija Set 《Homework 20030829》(April Bomb Records ab0001)

This is a rehearsal session that we recorded at my home when Yoomija who is a chango player came to Seoul. Players were Yoomija, Joe Foster, Kang Minsuk, and Sato Yukie.
Anyhow, various sound comes out of here and there. Musical instruments, toys, kitchen utensils, a garbage can, a plastic container, etc…anything in my room was played, flipped, struck and blown.
However, it was nice not to be complicated. There was a contemporary music-scene as if it was performing seeing a graphic notation. It was in the room closed in the midsummer. So at last track we played opening the windows. It ended quietly.

Sato Yukie Session

Akada Koh-ichi《100 pattern practice with a partner vol.1》(Akadax-01)

Akada Koh-ichi is a saxophone player in Okayama. This CD is the first one of his challenge to play with 100 duos. This has 14 improvisation tracks with Sato Yukie(g), Nakatani Tatsuya(per), Asiff Tsahar(sax), Otokura Shun(Japanese drum), etc. 2007 sale on.

Mikami Kan《Kanryu· the first live in Korea 2006》(Mikamikomuten MK-05)

Mikami Kan did the first live in Korea in Aug. 2006, with Shin Hye Young, Korean traditional musician, and Sato Yukie. Ltd.1000.

Yuasawan 《Live》(OZ Disc OZD-099/KM-02)

This is the 2nd album of “Yuasawan” led by Yuasa Manabu who is a music critic and the special musician. Yuasawan is an explosion noise guitar unit. This is their live CD recorded from 2001 to 2003. Sato Yukie played guitar with Tsutaki Shunji, guitarist of Totsuzen Danball, on track 1, an ambient noise song ‘Oboetate-no A-I-U-E-O’ that recorded in 2002. Jacket illustration is painted by Nemoto Takashi, the famous special cartoonist.

Omnibus

V.A.《STARWARS: Starwars Project Compilation 2008》(Daproject no number)

This is the compilation of basically Korean underground musicians produced by Ma Seounggil, a leader of indie band Anarchy in Project. 2CD. Theme is Starwars the movie. This includes many kind of music. Broken folksongs by Anarchy in Project, many Korean indie bands from pop song to heavy metal, free improvisation by Sato Yukie, cosmic guitar by Lee Han Joo, deep song by Kim Young Jin, and Aoki Ryota (Japanese living in Seoul), Bloom(Hawaiian Korean living in Japan), 1KA(French techno noise artist), so on.

V.A.《Asian Flashback》(PSF Records PSFD170)

This is the compilation album of Japanese, Korean and Chinese indie musicians. Supervisor is Marqido. It put on sale in Dec. 2007. It includes 13 tracks; Sato Yukie’s solo improvisation, Korean rock band Mustangs, improvised bassist Kim Young Jin, avant-folk singer Amateur Amplifier, acid female vocal Soonie and Korea-Japan unit 10(Itta+Marqido), etc. This has many kinds of music like rock, noise, improvisation and songs. This is the good documentary of Asian underground scene.

V.A.《Bulgasari 2003 / 0-7# compilation》(no number)

This is the compilation CD of the free music live series called "Bulgasari" that Sato Yukie holds in Seoul. Produced by Alfred Harth (ex. Cassiber).
This CD includes following musicians: Alfred Harth who has moved to South Korea from Germany, Joe Foster who has similarly come from the US, Choi Sun Bae who is one of the pioneers of Korean free music, Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (guest from Japan), Kawabata Makoto (guest from Japan), Kappa (guest from Japan), Seoul Frequency Quartet (new generation of Korean electronic music), Lee Han Joo (Korean young improviser), Kang Minsuk (Korean young improviser), Sato Yukie, etc. And this CD has collaboration with Korean traditional instruments, noise music, electro-acoustic, psychedelic, improvisation, and so on.
If you want to know more about "Bulgasari", please see web page (sorry, only Korean and Japanese).
http://jam.velvet.jp/scum.html (Japanese)
http://www.bulgasari.com/ (Korean)

DVD, etc

Alzaruba 《Inbetween》(no number)

This video work is made by American performing artist Alzaruba. He made this work while he was teaching at Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul) in 2003-2004. We can see him performing in a variety of locations across Korea, palaces, mountains, coasts, subways, streets…on this DVD. It is very interesting. Soundtrack is recorded by Sato Yukie. Only 25 copies in the whole world. Very rare item!

(기타 앨범)
Toyozumi Yoshisaburo+Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie 《Impro-Labo》(Jabrec-11)
Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie 《Live Document 2000-10-17》(Jabrec-03)
Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie 《Radio Drive》(Jabrec-05)
Yagihashi Tsukasa+Sato Yukie 《Loose Drive Vol.1＆2》(Jabrec-09,10)
YES trio 《Live Document 2000-08-12》(Jabrec-01)
YES trio 《Impro-Meeting 2000-08-09》(Jabrec-02)
YES trio 《Live Document 2000-10-20》(Jabrec-04)
YES trio 《Six Ears》(Jabrec-12)
YES trio 《Bend Drop No Block》(Jabrec-15)