The over riding theme for the album (as indicated by the title) is the American West

Patient Sounds

coproduced with perpetual motion machine

It's Versailles in audio form: grand and beautiful

MARI SEKINE - Beginning LP Soul The over riding theme forBeginning is, appropriately enough, the world wide solo debut by Japanese percussionist Mari Sekine. She has been active since 2000 with numerous groups and artists, as well as providing music for the theatre. This latter experience is particularly in evidence throughout this piece, with its dramatic shifts and changing scenery, forming a very visual and evocative music with over fifteen percussion instruments entering and leaving the stage in their