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The Squid's Ear Magazine
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Ono, Ryoko
The Days

Ono, Ryoko: The Days (Relative Pitch)

Known for her ensemble Ryorchestra and as half of SaxRuins with Yoshida Tatsuya, Nagoya-based saxophonist, flutist, and composer Ryoko Ono steps out on her own with a solo album featuring saxophone, mouthpiece, duck whistle, and voice, capturing the dramatic contrasts of life through her dynamic, genre-defying improvisations and emotionally resonant compositions.
 

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Ryoko Ono-saxophone, mouthpiece, duck whistle, voice


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UPC: 5904224873547

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPRSS034
Squidco Product Code: 35516

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Nagoya Japan, on March 15th - 20th, 2024, by Ryoko Ono.

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"Ryoko Ono is an energetic, dynamic, and highly versatile sax player and composer from Nagoya, Japan. She is well known for her series of duo records with international musicians and renowned as a collaborator with Sax Ruins and Acid Mothers Temple. About this solo record she writes. "We are living through the same time. The worst day ever for someone might be a happy day for someone else. "THE DAYS" are solo saxophone pieces of drama from someone's life."-Relative Pitch


Artist Biographies

"Ryoko Ono is a Japanese saxophonist, flutist, composer and recording artist specializing in improvised music and works for saxophone and electronics. She plays in a wide range of genres, not only improvised music, but also blues, jazz, progressive rock, noise, and avant-garde music. Her way of playing is consistent throughout all of these styles. It is solid, romantic inter-play. Ono leads her own group Ryorchestra and is one half of SaxRuins with Yoshida Tatsuya. She has performed with Mick Barr, Richard Pinhas, Toshiji Mikawa, Kazutoki Umezu, Akira Sakata, and many others."

-Ryoko Ono Website (http://www.onoryoko.jp/)
3/26/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Monday 07:13

2. Tuesday 07:29

3. Pixyday 06:13

4. Wednesday 03:00

5. Thursday 04:37

6. Doomsday 04:52

7. Friday 10:00

8. Saturday 03:36

9. Phonyday 05:53

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