Black Spur by Atsuko Hatano & Joe Talia
Tracklist
| 1. | The Lyrebird | 30:58 |
| 2. | Cyathea Forest | 11:10 |
Credits
released October 1, 2025
Atsuko Hatano played Viola and Electronics
Joe Talia played Revox B77 and Drums
Recorded at Bar Open and The Brian Brown Studio
Mixed by Atsuko Hatano
MIUC gig recorded by Scarlett Viney
Studio session recorded by Joe Talia
Mastered by Joe Talia
Special Thanks to Annalee Koernig and all at MIUC
The work is based on a recording of a performance at the Make It Up Club, an improvised music concert series in Melbourne that took place in May 2024.
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Atsuko Hatano is Japanese strings player / musician. As a solo and collaborations, she plays and makes works mainly with a viola, and she also joins recordings and ensemble projects quite actively. Joe Talia is an improviser / composer born in Australia. Using percussions, electronics, and a reel-to-reel, he has done various collaborations and released works so far.
[Black Spur] contains two duo recordings. ‘The Lyrebird’ is a performance at Bar Open, and ‘Cyathea Forest’ is a studio session. There are full of fine and delicate sounds by a viola with effects, drums, and a reel-to-reel, and they knit beautiful soundscapes like minerals as a whole.
波多野敦子は日本の弦楽器奏者/音楽家。主にヴィオラをもちいた演奏や制作活動に精力的に取り組んでおり、ソロ/コラボレーションのほか、レコーディングやアンサンブルプロジェクトなどにも積極的に参加している。Joe Taliaはオーストラリア出身の即興演奏家/作曲家。パーカッションやオープンリールなどをもちいて、これまでにさまざまなコラボレーションや作品の発表をおこなっている。
[Black Spur]はデュオでの2つの演奏を収録した作品となっており、’The Lyrebird’はBar Openでの演奏を、’Cyathea Forest’はスタジオでのセッションをそれぞれ録音したもの。エフェクトをとおしたヴィオラ、ドラムやオープンリールの音色が緻密かつ丁寧に配置されていくかのような演奏となっており、全体をとおして鉱石のように美しいサウンドスケープが紡ぎあげられている。
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Atsuko Hatano (波多野敦子)
Strings player.
Atsuko Hatano is a string player and composer who creates musical spaces that transcend the boundaries between acoustic and electronic. Centered around the five-string viola, her work combines Max/MSP, environmental sounds, and voice. Her lifelong project Cells Music unfolds organic soundscapes in which sounds subtly transform and interconnect, evoking a vibrant, living sonic ecosystem.
In addition to her solo work, she collaborates widely and releases music under the name TRIOLA on international labels such as Superpang, Important Records, and Alien Transistor. Recent projects include directing the string ensemble for the “Dynamic Equilibrium of Life Pavilion” at Expo 2025 Osaka, composing for the NHK morning drama Tora ni Tsubasa, and contributing strings to Yuta Orisaka’s album.
Hatano has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Jim O’Rourke, Hauschka, Satoko Fujii, Ken Ikeda, Midori Hirano, yumbo, KID FRESINO, Kumio Kurachi, Tetuzi Akiyama, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, and Akira Sakata.
弦楽器奏者/音楽家。
5弦ヴィオラを中心に、電子音響プログラムMax/MSP、環境音、声などを組み合わせ、アコースティックとエレクトロニックの境界を越える音楽空間を創出する。ライフワークであるシリーズ作品「Cells Music」では、微細に変化し連なっていく有機的なサウンドスケープを通し、生命感あふれる多様な音の集合体を描き出す。ソロ活動のほか、コラボレーションやTRIOLA名義での作品をSuperpang、Important Records、Alien Transistorなど海外レーベルからもリリースしている。
近年は、2025年大阪・関西万博「いのち動的平衡館」の弦楽アンサンブルを手がけるほか、NHK連続テレビ小説『虎に翼』の劇伴や折坂悠太のアルバムなど、多様なフィールドで表現豊かなストリングを提供。これまでにJim O’Rourke、Hauschka、藤井聡子、Ken Ikeda、Midori Hirano、yumbo、KID FRESINO、倉地久美夫、秋山徹次、内橋和久、坂田明らと、作品参加やコラボレーションなど多様な形で共演してきた。
hatanoatsuko.com
Joe Talia
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Joe Talia is an improviser and composer who works with percussion, tape and electronics. Focussing on the use of Revox tape machine and analogue synthesizers in combination with instruments and field recordings, Talia’s electronic works patiently build up sparkling, detail-rich sound worlds of gliding tones, skittering percussion and burbling location atmospherics. In live situations, Talia often uses tape and effects to process and warp his own and others’ playing into uncanny chains of echoes and spectral smears of sound.
A virtuoso drummer, as a percussionist Talia emerges from the traditions of jazz and free improvisation and has developed a unique personal language of shifting accents, subtle virtuosity and discreet extended technique that he welds equally ably in jazz, rock, new music and improvisational contexts. Like his electronic works, his drumming often demonstrates a keen attention to long-form structures, dynamic development and group interactions.
An important member of Tokyo’s vibrant improvised music scene and internationally active as a performer, Talia performs and records regularly with Oren Ambarchi, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke, James Rushford and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. In addition to these regular collaborations, he has also been involved in projects with Keiji Haino, Chris Abrahams, Tetuzi Akiyama, Akira Sakata, John Duncan, Richard Pinhas and many others. His work has been published by international labels such as Black Truffle, Bocian, Kye and Touch.
Atsuko Hatano played Viola and Electronics
Joe Talia played Revox B77 and Drums
Recorded at Bar Open and The Brian Brown Studio
Mixed by Atsuko Hatano
MIUC gig recorded by Scarlett Viney
Studio session recorded by Joe Talia
Mastered by Joe Talia
Special Thanks to Annalee Koernig and all at MIUC
The work is based on a recording of a performance at the Make It Up Club, an improvised music concert series in Melbourne that took place in May 2024.
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Atsuko Hatano is Japanese strings player / musician. As a solo and collaborations, she plays and makes works mainly with a viola, and she also joins recordings and ensemble projects quite actively. Joe Talia is an improviser / composer born in Australia. Using percussions, electronics, and a reel-to-reel, he has done various collaborations and released works so far.
[Black Spur] contains two duo recordings. ‘The Lyrebird’ is a performance at Bar Open, and ‘Cyathea Forest’ is a studio session. There are full of fine and delicate sounds by a viola with effects, drums, and a reel-to-reel, and they knit beautiful soundscapes like minerals as a whole.
波多野敦子は日本の弦楽器奏者/音楽家。主にヴィオラをもちいた演奏や制作活動に精力的に取り組んでおり、ソロ/コラボレーションのほか、レコーディングやアンサンブルプロジェクトなどにも積極的に参加している。Joe Taliaはオーストラリア出身の即興演奏家/作曲家。パーカッションやオープンリールなどをもちいて、これまでにさまざまなコラボレーションや作品の発表をおこなっている。
[Black Spur]はデュオでの2つの演奏を収録した作品となっており、’The Lyrebird’はBar Openでの演奏を、’Cyathea Forest’はスタジオでのセッションをそれぞれ録音したもの。エフェクトをとおしたヴィオラ、ドラムやオープンリールの音色が緻密かつ丁寧に配置されていくかのような演奏となっており、全体をとおして鉱石のように美しいサウンドスケープが紡ぎあげられている。
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Atsuko Hatano (波多野敦子)
Strings player.
Atsuko Hatano is a string player and composer who creates musical spaces that transcend the boundaries between acoustic and electronic. Centered around the five-string viola, her work combines Max/MSP, environmental sounds, and voice. Her lifelong project Cells Music unfolds organic soundscapes in which sounds subtly transform and interconnect, evoking a vibrant, living sonic ecosystem.
In addition to her solo work, she collaborates widely and releases music under the name TRIOLA on international labels such as Superpang, Important Records, and Alien Transistor. Recent projects include directing the string ensemble for the “Dynamic Equilibrium of Life Pavilion” at Expo 2025 Osaka, composing for the NHK morning drama Tora ni Tsubasa, and contributing strings to Yuta Orisaka’s album.
Hatano has collaborated with a diverse range of artists including Jim O’Rourke, Hauschka, Satoko Fujii, Ken Ikeda, Midori Hirano, yumbo, KID FRESINO, Kumio Kurachi, Tetuzi Akiyama, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, and Akira Sakata.
弦楽器奏者/音楽家。
5弦ヴィオラを中心に、電子音響プログラムMax/MSP、環境音、声などを組み合わせ、アコースティックとエレクトロニックの境界を越える音楽空間を創出する。ライフワークであるシリーズ作品「Cells Music」では、微細に変化し連なっていく有機的なサウンドスケープを通し、生命感あふれる多様な音の集合体を描き出す。ソロ活動のほか、コラボレーションやTRIOLA名義での作品をSuperpang、Important Records、Alien Transistorなど海外レーベルからもリリースしている。
近年は、2025年大阪・関西万博「いのち動的平衡館」の弦楽アンサンブルを手がけるほか、NHK連続テレビ小説『虎に翼』の劇伴や折坂悠太のアルバムなど、多様なフィールドで表現豊かなストリングを提供。これまでにJim O’Rourke、Hauschka、藤井聡子、Ken Ikeda、Midori Hirano、yumbo、KID FRESINO、倉地久美夫、秋山徹次、内橋和久、坂田明らと、作品参加やコラボレーションなど多様な形で共演してきた。
hatanoatsuko.com
Joe Talia
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Joe Talia is an improviser and composer who works with percussion, tape and electronics. Focussing on the use of Revox tape machine and analogue synthesizers in combination with instruments and field recordings, Talia’s electronic works patiently build up sparkling, detail-rich sound worlds of gliding tones, skittering percussion and burbling location atmospherics. In live situations, Talia often uses tape and effects to process and warp his own and others’ playing into uncanny chains of echoes and spectral smears of sound.
A virtuoso drummer, as a percussionist Talia emerges from the traditions of jazz and free improvisation and has developed a unique personal language of shifting accents, subtle virtuosity and discreet extended technique that he welds equally ably in jazz, rock, new music and improvisational contexts. Like his electronic works, his drumming often demonstrates a keen attention to long-form structures, dynamic development and group interactions.
An important member of Tokyo’s vibrant improvised music scene and internationally active as a performer, Talia performs and records regularly with Oren Ambarchi, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke, James Rushford and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto. In addition to these regular collaborations, he has also been involved in projects with Keiji Haino, Chris Abrahams, Tetuzi Akiyama, Akira Sakata, John Duncan, Richard Pinhas and many others. His work has been published by international labels such as Black Truffle, Bocian, Kye and Touch.
