'6th Sense Living Room' captures Sabana Blanca’s fundamental sense of 'asobi'—their desire to play with what percussionist Takaaki Masuko describes as "no purpose, no absolutes, no competition." Harvested from hundreds of hours of recordings Masuko made of the trio’s weekly free improvisations in 1999, these five moments of music were made without

'6th Sense Living Room' captures Sabana Blanca’s fundamental sense of 'asobi'—their desire to play with what percussionist Takaaki Masuko describes as "no purpose, no absolutes, no competition." Harvested from hundreds of hours of recordings Masuko made of the trio’s weekly free improvisations in 1999, these five moments of music were made without restrictions, without effort or ambition to make something happen. It’s music that sounds the way life does, when something happens and you follow it, letting the shape it takes tell you about what it is and where it wants you to go.

—H.A. Hendricks, NativeWit Productions

Johannes Ammon - Violin & Vocalizations Andrew Blickenderfer - Cello & Bass Takaaki Masuko - Percussion

Recorded live-to-two by Takaaki Masuko in the living room Child Street, Jamaica Plain, MA December 1999

Mastered by Mike Marciano Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY March 2021

Produced by Takaaki Masuko takimasuko.com & H.A. Hendricks, NativeWit Productions nativewitproductions.com

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