GATO LIBRE

Post-Fusion Contemporary / 21st Century Modern • Japan
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Natsuki Tamura – trumpet Satoko Fujii – accordion Kazuhiko Tsumura – guitar Norikatsu Koreyasu – bass

Natsuki Tamura’s fascinating Spanish-inflected quartet is a real treat of exotic musical blending and creative musicianship. While these musicians all play all over Tokyo, this quartet’s home base is the pleasant Otoya-Kintoki, an intimate space that fits the music perfectly, sonically and atmospherically. This is a quartet that you want to hear up close, and while the club is not small, you have a sense of intimacy here that welcomes you into the delicate, lovely immediacy of the music.

Each evening Gato Libre, whose name means roughly “free cat” in Spanish, plays, they try out new tunes, written by leader Tamura. As a result, few of them have real titles, and Tamura calls them out, “Ma,” “Mi,” “Ya,” “Sa,” “Shi,” and “Su,” which gives them a very abstract and undefined quality. The tunes will surely be titled later, once
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GATO LIBRE Strange Village album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Strange Village
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2005
GATO LIBRE Nomad album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Nomad
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2006
GATO LIBRE Shiro album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Shiro
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2010
GATO LIBRE DuDu album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
DuDu
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2014
GATO LIBRE Neko album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Neko
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2017
GATO LIBRE Koneko album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Koneko
21st Century Modern 2020
GATO LIBRE Sleeping Cat album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sleeping Cat
21st Century Modern 2022

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Kuro
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2008
GATO LIBRE Forever album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Forever
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012

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