Ayako Kanda is a Japanese, Tokyo-based vocal artist, whose work moves between free improvisation and standard jazz, quick sketches and impressionist painting, creating rules and then breaking them as she roams freely between linguistic and alinguistic facets of expression. Her vocal performances encompass a kaleidoscopic range of expression, and her voice is described as low as an echo in a tunnel, then light as a child’s conversation; chasing the band one moment, and ringing out wild and alone the next. She performs in the ATP duo with drummer-vocalist Tatsuya Yoshida (of the Ruins) and a rotating musician, which released five albums this summer.
Hi-Gengo documents the free improvising meeting of Kanda with American, New
