Screaming Headless Torsos featuring Hiromi, Running Black Water - Live from ShapeShifter Lab

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I met Hiromi when I started teaching at Berklee College of Music in 2002. I wanted to experiment with new musical ideas and asked around about who the heavy players were and Hiromi’s name kept popping up. She played on a faculty recital of mine and then and asked me and another faculty member to play on a piece on her first record. I said "of course" and 6 months later I bumped into the other teacher and he said “ do you remember that piano player we recorded with? Her record just went gold in Japan!” And well, the rest is history. I was fortunate to be invited to play in her Sonic bloom band and when my band Screaming Headless Torsos was thinking about guest artists for our album "Code Red", Hiromi's name was on a short list along with the late Bernie Worrel (Parliament Funkadelic) , James Valentine (Maroon 5), and Casey Benjamin (Robert Glasper Experiment). Unfortunately with both of our touring schedules, the timing didn't work out to feature Hiromi on Code Red. So we came up with another idea, a live filmed version of Running Black Water at ShapeShifter Lab, in Brooklyn, in front of a studio audience as a separate release. So much of what both Torsos and Hiromi create, is born of spontaneity, and the live experience. We were thrilled that she agreed to play on the song and that she could bring her magic, her joyful musicality and amazing technical prowess, to that piece.

-David Fiuczysnki, guitarist, founder Screaming Headless Torsos