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HAILING from Copenhagen, this trio includes Tokyo-born Makiko Hirabayashi and veteran Danish-American percussionist Marilyn Mazur, whose array of tiny bells and miniature cymbals hang from a crossbar over her drum set and create a metallic transcendence.
Hirabayashi plucks the strings inside her piano and the rubber-souled fingers of bassist Klavs Hovman delve deep during Once Upon a Sea, their tribute to those who perished in the 2011 Fukushima tsunami.
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