November 20, 2020
Vocalist and shamisen player Emi Makabe joins Dave Douglas for a conversation about her new album, Anniversary.
November 12, 2020
Emi and her quartet will livestream from from SEEDS::Brooklyn at 8:30pm.
November 9, 2020
Bandcamp says: "Emi Makabe’s communion of modern jazz and Japanese folk makes for an auspicious debut."
October 30, 2020
Bandcamp purchasers receive a bonus track that doesn't appear on the CD, an alternate version of the title track.
October 16, 2020
"Anniversary" is the title track from Emi's upcoming album and it is a beautiful duet with her husband, bassist Thomas Morgan.
October 5, 2020
The video was animated by Monica Jane Frisell, who is great photographer who has done a number of videos for Bill Frisell.
October 2, 2020
The beautifully animated video was put together by Monica Jane Frisell, a wonderful photographer who has created some great videos for her father, Bill Frisell.
Glide Magazine is premiering a beautifully animated video for the song "Flash."
September 24, 2020
Emi will play an outdoor concert at Wilky Bar Brooklyn in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn at 6:30pm.
September 18, 2020
Check out the video for the first single, "Treeing."
September 14, 2020
Nate Chinen says, "Hyperacute technique meets folkloric timbre in the music of Emi Makabe."
September 3, 2020
The album is a set of eleven of Emi's original compositions, which blend pop and Japanese folk melodies with cross-cultural instrumentation and jazz improvisation.
