TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS LP PSYCH-PROG-NWW-KOSUGI-JAPAN-RE

	£		27
	$		36

TAJ MAHAL TRAVELERS

July 15,1972 LP

• Limited Edition:300 copies
• Label              :Iskra 3002 / Japan
• Condition        :mint/mint(cover/vinyl)

Originally pressed on CBS, this is the Iskra pressing, limited to 300 units and sold out instantly when it was released!! July 1972 is the Taj mahal Travellers their legendary debut album, here miscredited as 'Travelers' - this album is the result of a live in studio recording, the group's instrumentation consists of electronically-treated acoustic instruments, oscillators and sheet metal (suntool), and heavily relies on time-delay effects to create psychedelic, expansive dronest. Taj Mahal Travellers played lengthy improvised jams in a far-eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices; they improvised all over the world (India, Iran, UK, Sweden), on deserted shores, small galeries, coffee bars, lonely hills (almost wherever power supply was available) and the result was this incredible album of cosmic bliss. The sound is floating like coming from distant loudspeakers, coloured back and forth from hand made electronic devices and delayed throug echo machines. Bass, harmonica, trumpet, synthesizer, oriental percussions are added. There are no interractions between the musicians, each one is having his own inner discussion with the instrument, however the result of merging them all together is a pulsating feedback of complex sound waves. Music drifts slowly like autumn sunsets or a peacefull lovemaking offer. The line-up was:
Takehisa Kosugi
electronic violin, radio oscillators & voice
Ryo Loike
electronic contrabass, suntool, harmonia & sheet iron
Yukio Tsuchiya
vibraphone, suntool
Michihiro Kimura
electronic guitar & percussion
Seiji Nagai
electronic trumpet, harmonica
Tokio Hasegawa
vocal
Kinji Hayashi
electronic engineer
Go Hamada
producer
The Taj Mahal Travellers are also featured in the Nurse with wound list of influences.
Vinyl and cover are mint / new. Might appeal to fans of drone, fluxus, experimental, psych, progressive, A-Musik, Agencement, Anode Cathode, ANP, BGM, Brast Burn, East Bionic Symphonia, Dada, Fushitsusha, GAP, GRIM, Yoshio Hayakawa, Keiji Haino, Hijokaidan, In-Ryo-Fu-en, Jo Kondo, Takehisa Kosugi, Magical Power Mako, Merzbow, MSBR, Nord, SAB, Somei Satoh, Akio Suzuki, Toru Takmitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Tolerance, Vasilisk, White Hospital, Les Rallizes Denudes, John Cage, Pierre Henry, musique concrete, Broken Music, Stockhausen, Xenakis, AMM, David Tudor, Pierre Schaeffer, Henri Chopin, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Alvin Curran, Stockhausen, Xenakis, La Monte Young, Nurse with wound, Asmus Tietchens, Zoviet France, Hafler Trio, John Duncan, Leif Ellgrenn, Hausswolff, Merzbow, Organum, Harmonia, Embryo, Curly Curve, Spermull, Diabolus, Spirogyra, Guru Guru, gash, Rufus, Shameti, Thirsty Moon, Os Mundi, Cornucopia, Neu!, Brainticket,  Wolgang Dauner, Cluster, Kluster, Electric Sandwich, Conrad Schnitzler, Satin Whale, Zweistein, Grobschnitt, Yatha Sidhra, and similar!

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