Akira Sakata & Entasis - Live in Europe 2022 / 2CD set

This double CD, Live in Europe 2022, issued by Austrian label Trost Records, catches Sakata & Entasis at the top of its game, across three stages during a 2022 European tour: Thessaloniki (11.04 Duende Jazz Upstairs); Padova (14.04 Centro d'Arte); Brussels (16.04 Les Ateliers Claus). The related gigs show some slight changes on the line-up, besides the fixed texture of Sakata, Di Domenico and Giotis Damianidis. So in Greece we find the double bass of Petros Damianidis and Stephanos Chytiris on drums; in Italy Balazs Pandi on drums, duty covered in Belgium by Aleksandar Skoric, but the menu remains a tasteful full-monty of Akira's way of music: lyricism and brutal force, geometry and sheer improvisation, sonic sturm und drang with the gift of his usual interventions on mike. ~ https://www.freejazzblog.org/2023/11/akira-sakata-entasis-live-in-europe.html

Live in Thessaloniki 11/04/2022, Duende Jazz Upstairs
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals, bells
Giovanni di Domenico: piano
Giotis Damianidis: electric guitar
Petros Damianidis: double bass
Stephanos Chytiris: drums
Recording engineers: Titos Kariotakis & Christos Harbilas

Live in Padova, Centro d’arte 14/04/2022
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals, bells
Giovanni di Domenico: piano
Giotis Damianidis: electric guitar
Balázs Pándi: drums
recording engineer: Davide Corsato

Live in Brussels, Les Ateliers Claus 16/04/2022
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals, bells
Giovanni di Domenico: piano
Giotis Damianidis: electric guitar
Aleksandar Škoric: drums
recording engineer: Arnaud Chamey