Music of GROUP ONGAKU Takehisa KOSUGI Fluxus Electronic YASUNAO TONE Japan ORIG

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GROUP ONGAKU: “Music Of Group Ongaku”

Label: SEER SOUND ARCHIVE

Label Number: SEER00!

- BLOODY RARE JAPAN 1st original private pressing from over a decade ago.

- Still housed in shrink

- Comes with INSERT

- rare early 1960 recordings of KOSUGI TAKEHISA of Taj Mahal Travellers first FLUXUS outfit.

- small pressing of 300 copies ONLY!!!!!

- TOP Condition!!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint ~ beautiful preserved copy with shiny & glossy surface

Jacket: MINT, still housed in shrink – comes with sturdy fully readable spine/ Straight edges without any signs of wear / sharp corners.

Insert: MINT

Some words on this issue: GROUP ONGAKU: “Music Of Group Ongaku” (SEER Sound Archive – SEER001) Long gone limited release and 1st vinyl issue that came out years ago documenting the early sonic experiments of Takehisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travelers fame) during the years 1960~61. “Group Ongaku was a pre-Taj Mahal Travellers/East Bionic Symphonia/Marginal Consort avant-garde/free improvising unit that featured Takehisa Kosugi of Taj Mahal Travellers on violin, saxophone and tape, Yasunao Tone on saxophone and tape, Chieko Shiomi on piano, Mikio Tojima on cello, Genichi Tsuge on guitar and Shukou Mizuno on cello, drums and tape. This is pre-Beatles, pre-Rock, pre-Free Jazz and yet it sounds as if it could have been recorded this year. Forming in 1958, Ongaku were primarily influenced by the avant-garde strategies of Cage, Stockhausen and the Fluxus movement but they quickly extrapolated into a form of instant, communal composition that pretty much set the seeds for much of what was to come in their wake. There are two sessions featured on the album, which was originally available in an elusive CD edition back in the day. The first side features recordings made at Mizuno’s house in May 1960 while the flip features two pieces recorded live in concert at Sogetsu Kaikan Hall in Tokyo in September of 1961. The sound combines aspects of jarring tape work with free saxophone blurt, long passages of nocturnal drone, Industrial percussion, strange vortices of strings, psych/noise guitar and a dosed/peaking atmosphere that is deeply psychedelic. In these grooves you can hear the first of echoes of what would become the whole Alchemy/PSF aesthetic while joining the dots between all of your favorite Nurse With Wound listees. Indeed it has been described as “sounding like the COMPLETE Nurse With Wound List playing at once... and when you realize that said posse includes Airway, Cromagnon, Don Bradshaw Leather & Throbbing Gristle among its formidable ranks, then one must understand that what is passing between their ears is an aural Excalibur of avant/experimental freakdom that almost no one knew existed.” (D. Keenan) A massively potent unearthing of some of the most historically confounding avant/drone/tape work ever to escape the prodigious gravity of the Japanese underground and a vital addition to any shelf. Edition of 300 copies that came out 10 years ago and long evaporated into thin air.

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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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