MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI NEW DIRECTION UNIT Eclipse LP/1975 Japan/Free Improv./Noise
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MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI NEW DIRECTION UNIT 'Eclipse' LP (US, Black Editions, Catalogue #BE-014/JOJO2) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2022 Black Editions label LP edition of 1975 album/recording of intense guitar led free improvisation session by Masayuki Takayanagi and his New Direction Unit entitled Eclipse. Originally released in 1975 in Japan on the Iskra Records label.
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(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)
Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature, and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments; he began expanding on the most radical elements of American and European free jazz, infusing them with the raw feedback and dissonance of electronic and avant-garde music. With his various New Direction groups, Takayanagi broke free of traditional structures and developed a new theory of music that embraced an aggressive and unrelenting style of playing that has remained almost completely unparalleled in its ferocity. Of all the albums to be released during Takayanagi's lifetime, 1975's Eclipse was perhaps the most enigmatic and sought after. Released in an edition of only 100, it almost immediately disappeared and became a holy grail for Japanese connoisseurs of adventurous music, and rightly so. It's first side contained a two-part realization of Takayanagi's "Gradually Projection" modality -- a searching interplay between instruments -- slowly emerging from a sparse open field and building with the tension of a looming thunder storm. The second side contains an epic performance of a "Mass Projection", a high energy, densely layered barrage of sound that in its 25 minutes, never once slackens its intensity. It would be another 31 years before this key album in Takayangi's oeuvre would finally have a (slightly) wider audience through a CD release by Japan's P.S.F. Records.
Black Editions present a deluxe vinyl edition of this masterwork, revealingly remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters. The album is packaged in a heavy double tip-on gatefold jacket that pays tribute to the original handmade packaging and features a previously unseen studio photograph of Takayanagi by Tatsuo Minami. Recorded in Tokyo, March 14, 1975. Engineer: Mikio Aoki. Cover, photographs and design by Kazuharu Fujitani. Gatefold photograph by Tatsuo Minami. Insert Notes by Yasunori Saito. Produced by Satoru Obara, Yoshiaki Kamei, Nihon Gendai Jazz Ongaku Kenkyukai. Originally released in an edition of 100 by ISKRA Records, Japan in 1975. Remastered from the original master tapes by Dave Cooley, Elysian Masters, and produced by Peter Kolovos. Deluxe heavy tip-on gatefold LP with matte black paper, second tipped-on metallic gold wrap and insert.
- Black Editions present a deluxe vinyl edition of Masayuki Takayanagi's Eclipse, originally released in 1975.
- In the late '60s, Takayanagi began expanding on the most radical elements of American and European free jazz, infusing them with the raw feedback and dissonance of electronic and avant-garde music.
- Of all the albums to be released during Takayanagi's lifetime, 1975's Eclipse was perhaps the most enigmatic and sought after.
- Remastered from the original tapes by Elysian Masters.
- Deluxe heavy tip-on gatefold LP with matte black paper, second tipped-on metallic gold wrap and insert.
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
A1 First Session I (Gradually Projection) 10:47 A2 First Session II (Gradually Projection) 9:07 B1 Second Session (Mass Projection) 25:23Shipping rates to the following locations at this present time (note: all shipping rates are subject to change.)
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