ORCHESTRAL SPACE 68 TAKEMITSU TAKAHASHI REICH CAGE Japan Electronic Avant Garde

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V.A. ORCHESTRAL SPACE ’68: “Takemitsu – Takahashi – Reich - Cage”  with TAKEMITSU TORU – Cross Talk For Sam Francis (Tape Music)/// YUJI TAKAHASHI – 6 Elements /// STEVE REICH – Piano Phase/// JOHN CAGE – Concert For Prepared Piano And Chamber Orch.

Label: VICTOR RECORDS

Label Number: SJX-1003

VERY RARE JAPAN ONLY RELEASE FROM 1968!!! Comes with attached insert. Key recording for Japanese avant-garde and experimental music. Rarely surfaces

GRADING:

LP Record: VG++ - has some visual surface paper sleeve marks but plays solid EX all way through

Gatefold Jacket: Excellent - price tag tear on front

Some words on this issue: V.A./ ORCHESTRAL SPACE ‘68: (Victor Records – SJX-1003)  Well it is hard to believe, but here you have a copy of the much rumored but hardly ever seen Japanese electronic music disc. Records documenting those early days of composers avidly splicing tape, trying to figure out those new studio technologies and setting out to map deep space by means of all obliterating bleeps, whooshes, static hissing and white noise are almost impossible to locate. First of all, they were all released in tiny quantities by major labels that regarded the stuff to have little and no commercial potential. In a way it was a tax deduction post on which young and eager composers could create sonic havoc. Next to that, a heavy-duty art-collecting crowd rapidly snapped up copies since most of the discs were adorned by prints of up and coming modern art big names such as is the case with this disc. And the copies that didn’t sell were simply taken out of rotation and destroyed. The music on the other hand is just gorgeous and on of the best electronic experiments ever to be entrusted to vinyl. Recorded in the NHK studio (established in 1954, 4 months before the German Cologne Studio) it documents never before or elsewhere released sonic experiments by oncoming mavericks such as Takemistu Toru and Yuji Takahsashi there were the 2nd side was the first introduction of the music of Steve Reich and John Cage to a Japanese audience. The compositions here on display are respectively “Cross talk for Sam Francis” (Takemitsu Toru), “6 Elements” (Yuji Takahashi), “Piano Phase” (Steve Reich) and “Concert for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra” (John Cage). Comes with liners in Japanese by various composers like Xenakis. Extremely rare gem in virginal condition. The music is even better than the mint state of the record, pure bliss. Highest recommendation.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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