MAX DEVEREAUX / HAYASHIPOOO / NAMEBYNAMES – LIVE AT ENVIRONMENT0G, OSAKA — 04.10.2024
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Set One
Set Two

Max Devereaux: Electric Guitar (Fender Stratocaster, Boss effects, Roland JC amp), Radio
hayashipooo: Electronics (Rhythm machines, synths, vocals)
nameBYnames: Electronics and Visuals

Curation & BGM: Chie Otomi

Recorded at: environment0g, Osaka, Japan (October 4, 2024)

Mastering/Post-Production: Dirk Serries

Photography by Martina Verhoeven /  martinaverhoeven.com
Executive label director : Dirk Serries.

This is a digital-exclusive A New Wave Of Jazz release (nwoj0076).

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REVIEWS

“Max Devereaux is an American self-taught, prolific experimental guitarist, songwriter, visual artist, and filmmaker who focuses on free improvisation, electronic and electroacoustic music, and cross-disciplinary projects. He splits his time between Southern California and Minneapolis.
Live at EnvironmentoG, Osaka is the first-ever, free improvisation performance of Devereaux playing an electric guitar (Fender Stratocaster, Boss effects, Roland JC amp) with two obscure experimental Japanese artists – hayashipooo on electronics (rhythm machines and synths), and vocals, and nameBYnames on electronics and visuals, recorded in October 2024, at the renowned subterranean experimental venue, Environment0G, in Osaka’s Nishi ward—a district defined by its stark, modern reconstruction following significant air-raid bombing devastation in WWII. This recording was the final one in Devereaux’ 30th birthday tour of Japan, which produced a series of free improvised recordings with like-minded improvisers, including drummer Shoji Hano and sax player Ryoko Ono.
The album offers two provocative sets, following the opening, solo electronics sets of hayashipooo and nameBYnames. The performance was informed by the relentless construction noise outside Devereaux’ hotel and the whole Nishi ward, and the urban sounds of a megapolis that is always “under construction”, mirroring his own artistic transition into a new decade. Devereaux added a portable radio through his pickups as a homage to his hero, John Cage.
The music is multi-layered, focusing on rough, unpredictable, and fragmented sonic collisions and broken melodies that blur the original sounds of the distorted electric guitar, noisy electronics, and arbitrary radio soundscapes. These risk-taking but strangely playful sets may be experienced as raw reflections of Devereaux’ eventful life and of a creative process that remains – much like the city of Osaka – an experimental work in progress, full of wonder and surprise.” Percosi Musicali – Italy