Press Reviews
02/2012 LOOP "Polar Parliament"
01/2012 Avant Music News "Polar Parliament"
01/2012 Chain D.L.K. "Solstice Eclipse"
01/2012 Oreshkin Sergey "Polar Parliament"
12/2011 The Field Reporter "Galaxies"
12/2011 Ojos De Músico Extraviado "Solstice Eclipse" & "Polar Parliament"
12/2011 CONNEXION BIZARRE "Polar Parliament"
12/2011 CONNEXION BIZARRE "Solstice Eclipse"
12/2011 TOUCHING EXTREMES "Polar Parliament"
11/2011 music emissions "Polar Parliament"
11/2011 monsieur delire "Polar Parliament"
11/2011 Bad Alchemy "Polar Parliament"
11/2011 VITAL WEEKLY number 804 "Polar Parliament"
09/2011 Monk Mink Pink Punk "Galaxies" "Solstice Eclipse"
08/2011 TOUCHING EXTREMES "Solstice Eclipse"
07/2011 Foxy Digital "Solstice Eclipse"
07/2011 VITAL WEEKLY number 789 "Solstice Eclipse"
07/2011 Bad Alchemy "Solstice Eclipse"
07/2011 monsieur delire "Solstice Eclipse"
06/2011 EtherREAL "Galaxies"
03/2011 Cyclic Defrost "Galaxies"
02/2011 i hate the sound of guitars "Galaxies"
02/2011 Foxy Digital "Galaxies"
02/2011 The Sound Projector "Galaxies"
02/2011 Chain D.L.K. "Galaxies"
01/2011 Bad Alchemy "Galaxies"
01/2011 monsieur delire "Galaxies"
01/2011 VITAL WEEKLY number 762 "Galaxies"
12/2010 TOUCHING EXTREMES "Galaxies"
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RADIO
Onda Radio Girona / 2006.6.15.
Fukuoka Love FM "Insight"/ 2006. 2. 1 (Japanese)
Nagoya ZIP FM "Evening Drive" / 2004. 7. 5 (Japanese)
Tokyo FM (JFN) "Morning Freeway" / 2004. 7. 1 (Japanese)
Fukuoka Love FM "Insight"/ 2004. 6. 23 (Japanese)
Radio Ciutat Vella / 2003 (Spanish)
TV
SIC Radical "Curto Circuito" / 2004.11.25 (Portugal)
NHK OSAKA / 2004. 6. 28 (Japan)
BarcelonaTV / 2000 (Spain)
MAGAZINE & WEB
Eld Rich Palmer / 2005 (English)
disquiet.com / 2001 (English)
The Sound Projector / 2001 / p.95-96 (English)
Composite / 1999 / No.10 p.60-61 (Japanese)
Fader / 1999 / vol.003 p.8 (Japanese)
Living Lettuce / 1998 / Autumn issue p.9-11 (Japanese)
Yomiuri Shimbun / 1998.1.29 / p.37 (Japanese)
Reviews Notes:
All Music Guide
One of the world's most imaginative composers, Koji Asano defies simple categorization. A native of Japan who now resides in Barcelona, Spain, Asano has composed tunes for dance performances, film soundtracks, and video art exhibitions. Solo pianists, guitar bands, computers, string quartets, and his own Tokyo-based group the Koji Asano Ensemble have performed his compositions. According to the San Francisco Weekly, Asano "eschews the well-worn path of familiar music making contexts for a less traveled route involving feedback, computers, and electronics." Asano has collaborated with a diverse range of musical and visual artists. In 1997, he provided accompaniment for exhibitions of sculpture and painting in Moscow, Pushkin, and Latvia. Two years later, he composed a string quartet for a presentation of Bruno Letort's Megapoles project, featuring the Smith Quartet at the VingtiËme ThÈatre in Paris. In October 2001, a new composition was premiered by Banda Municipal de Barcelona.
Instal
Japanese experimental musician KOJI ASANO is an artist who puts very few limits on the genres he works in. Subsequently he has produced, in the last few years, a slew of albums, all of them excellent, that range in style from computer noise and meditative piano improvisation to guitar noise rock and electronic soundscapes.
San Francisco Weekly
Over the past six years, composer Koji Asano has explored the beauty and the terror of experimental sound on 20 self-produced CDs for his Barcelona-based label Solstice. An adept pianist and guitarist, the 27-year-old Tokyo native has improvised solo concerts and played noisy, altrock-ishi instrumental tunes in various combos throughout Europe. He's also scored pieces for string quartets and orchestras. But his more recent work eschews the well-worm path of familiar music making contexts for a less traveled route involving feedback, computers, and electronics.
Los Angels Weekly
Now based in Barcelona, Tokyo's Koji Asano is an electro-acoustic composer/multi-instrumentalist, a super-prolific(20 albums) lover of sound and an inspiring figure for his eagerness to express new ideas via a huge and often seemingly contradictory variety of forms and palettes. He's fond of interfacing new technology like computer-aided tone-generation/filtering and digital delay effects with tradaitional acoustic instruments such as piano, guitars and string quartets, and is equally attracted to pure improvisation and tightly structured pieces, in both acoustic or electronic formats.
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