Stefan Thut & Taku Sugimoto - Atama 頭 (2020)

Tokyo based Taku Sugimoto and Solothurn based Stefan Thut are old friends. They collaborated many times in concerts and recording sessions in Japan and Europe.

At the end of Stefan's 2019 Korea/Japan Tour, he and Taku made a recording nearby Tama River. They set up two mics very far from each other (more than 15m). After that recording Stefan entitled the piece "At Tama" which changed into "Atama" as a contraction. Atama means “head” in Japanese. It is real that because they couldn’t hear very well what the other one did, it only happened in their heads. Then one month later, during Taku’s Europe tour they did the piece again, at Stefan’s place in Solothurn: Taku on the first floor, Stefan on the second floor.

But the duo happens in the recordings, in audience’s head. After Solothurn’s session, Stefan mixed these two recordings together. The mixed version is available only as a digital version, and the Tokyo and Solothurn recordings are present each as one side on the cassette