Utp (album)

utp_ is the fourth collaboration between Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Ensemble Modern is featured on the CD as well.

Reception

—Max Schaefer, The Squid's Ear

Track listing

1. "Attack" – 7:24
2. "Grains" – 6:24
3. "Particle 1" – 6:40
4. "Transition" – 3:31
5. "Broken Line 1" – 6:32
6. "Plateaux 1" – 8:07
7. "Silence" – 6:51
8. "Particle 2" – 7:00
9. "Broken Line 2" – 6:29
10. "Plateaux 2" – 12:59

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano, electronics
• Alva Noto – electronics
• Aaron Baird – double bass
• Rainer Romer – percussion
• Rumi Ogawa – percussion
• Johannes Schwarz – bassoon, contrabassoon
• Eva Bocker – cello
• Michael M. Kasper – cello
• John Corbett – clarinet, bass clarinet
• Nina Jansen – clarinet, bass clarinet
• Detmar Wiesner – flute, piccolo
• Patrick Judt – viola
• Yuval Gotlibovich – viola

References