SATO MASAHIKO TRIO 1st Japan Issue 1969 Free Jazz Avant

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SATO MASAHIKO TRIO: “Palladium”

Label: Express

Label Number: EP-8004

Original 1st Japanese issue of 1969 on high quality vinyl

GRADING:

Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Jacket: Excellent

Insert: Excellent

Some words on this issue: SATO MASAHIKO TRIO: “Palladium” (Express – EP-8004) Top copy. Classic Japanese free jazz monster. First original pressing of 1969!! The year of 1969 was the year that Japanese free jazz began to lift off (see We Now Create LP of Togashi Masahiko with Takayanagi, Motoharu and other heavyweights releasing the 1st free jazz LP in Japan) and blossom into a fierce musical power to be reckoned with. Legendary combos such as Togashi Masahiko/ Sato Masahiko's ESSG, Yamashita Yosuke Trio, Takayanagi Masayuki New Directions and Motoharu Yoshizawa Trio were soon responsible to be the originators of this new scene of sonic terrorists. Each of them released that year groundbreaking albums, colored by their own approach to jazz methodology and Sato Masahiko's fully made a mark for himself with this first album centered around him as a leader. The record eventually ended up receiving a jazz magazine's award and is since then regarded as a classic disc in Japan's free jazz pantheon. This album is quite remarkable and its take on free jazz is light years removed from the European and American scenes since it opened up sonic gateways to new unexplored territories. First of all it is quite avant-garde tinted in its execution of the material and juxtaposing it fusing it with a fresh influx of careful and delicately crafted improvisational interplay. Sato Masahiko plays prepared piano, Arakawa Yasuo caresses his bass with a bow and Togashi Masahiko enriches his percussive interplay with chimes and bells. The record opens up with a ethereal soundscape that suddenly merges into the Beatles' “Michelle”, sounding tenderly tense and pregnant with delicate thunders that remain concealed behind velvet curtains, making it one of the most sensitive and vulnerable song ever to be played by a free jazz combo. “Michelle” unfolds its hidden beauties over a span of 14 minutes before rolling into a collaboration of sonic molecules shifting in and out of focus and flowing as liquid and free as a mountain stream and meandering into the main theme again, al entwined around Sato's quicksilver.-like mercurial bivalent playing. And this was so far only side one and the air is already getting thinner. Side two picks up where side one left off and takes you further along on a ride that showcases the virtuosic playing of the trio.

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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