Press
The Best Jazz on Bandcamp: July 2021
“This modern cosmic jazz session from Ayumi Ishito has an intoxicatingly drifting ambiance. But there’s always a sense that the musicians are actively exploring where the next phrasing or volley of notes will take them—a sense of focus that balances out the album’s ephemeral qualities…”
The New York City Jazz Record: August 2021
"What is most striking about this project though is the group dynamic informing these pieces... The band creates unique sonic settings…”
Jazz Tokyo
“本盤は即興領域のサウンドである。ここでは、ギターのフェデリコ・バルドゥッチ、エレクトロニクスのトレイ・クリーガンを加えたトリオにより、気が遠くなるほど大きな宇宙空間に漂い、その音風景が次第に変わっていくようなおもしろさを実現している。”
Ayumi Appears on WFMU Radio
“Today Saturday December 7 on Music for a Free World from 2pm til 5pm our guest is Ayumi Ishito on Give the Drummer Radio at WFMU”
Left Bank Magazine
“We are so thrilled to share this new tune from Ayumi Ishito on Left Bank—we regularly share indie rock / shoegaze / dream pop, and while I am a HUGE fan of jazz, it very rarely makes its way on the site.”
The Family Interviews
“There’s something about jazz that is inherently cool. Maybe it’s because people playing saxophones tend to be wearing a trilby or a fedora and some slick shades. I actually hate fedoras with a passion that burns like a thousand suns. They’re ridiculously small for most people’s heads.”
JazzTrail
“Based in Brooklyn since 2010, Ayumi Ishito is a Japanese-born saxophonist/composer whose spunky style consists in a contemporary amalgamation of genres with a profusion of mood changes and predicated in demarcated structures that involve both group texture and individual improvisation.”
Odd Panda
“Right out the gate, there’s something challenging in the bassline of Lost Sheep - the way the notes move feels wrong. But, if you suspend your disbelief and opt-in, it’s part in the track feels uniquely satisfying.“
Grotesqualizer
“The track “Not Today” stands out with its notable element of the wah-wah sound of the tenor saxophone, which makes the track an infinitely dissolving, hypnotic pill.”
Jazz Views with CJ Shearn
“Ayumi Ishito’s second album as a leader Midnite Cinema picks up where View From A Little Cave left off. The three years between this and her first album have demonstrated a large growth in playing and writing.”