Ganryu Island (album)
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| Ganryu Island | ||||
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| Recorded | Radio City Studio on November 23, 1984[1] | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde | |||
| Length | 75:24 | |||
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| Producer | John Zorn | |||
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Ganryu Island is a collaborative album by John Zorn and Michihiro Sato. The album was first released on vinyl LP on Yukon Records in 1984 and later re-released on Tzadik Records as a CD with five additional tracks in 1998.[2]
The album is titled after Ganryujima, a small island in the Strait of Shimonoseki where legendary samurai warriors Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro engaged in battle.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
The AllMusic review by Joslyn Layne stated: "The great, no-holds-barred improvisation is by no means an inchoate whirl -- indeed, the shamisen's rhythmic presence often provides a steady, but flexible structure for the duo's truly imaginative interaction".[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz observed that "listening to Ganryu Island is like panning for gold: seeming eternities spent lodging through muddy dross in order to turn up a few moments of pure gold. By the oddest perversity, the very best tracks seem to be those which were excluded from the venial release".[4]
