TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI ACTION DIRECT OG 1st Press Monster Japan Free Jazz MINT ALM

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MASAYUKI “JoJo” TAKAYANAGI: “Action Direct”

LABEL: ALM – URANOIA Records/ KOJIMA RECORDINGS

Label Number: UR-6

- MONSTER RARE JAPAN 1st ORIGINAL PRESS from 1987 in NEAR MINT condition

- Comes complete with INSERT.

- One of the RAREST free Jazz slides from Japan

- Killer Free jazz slide with Guitar beast TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI at helm!!!!

- Top condition for archival collector!!!!! Near MINT CONDITION!!!

- NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE TO UPGRADE

- 1st ORIGINAL PRESS!!!!! Never turns up!!!!

- PERFECT CONDITION COPY

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ Mint just super clean – ARCHIVE condition

Jacket: Near Mint ~ Mint – with sharp corners/ straight edges/ thick fully readable spine – ARCHIVE condition

Insert: Mint

Some words on this issue: TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI: “Action Direct” (Kojima Recordings – ALM-Uranoia/ UR-6) Getting impossible to dig up these past last years due to rising popularity and utter scarcity. Top copy of one of the rarest Takayanagi titles. Original press of this almost impossible to score Takayanagi disc. Here is some back info: “Action Direct” was first released by Kojima ALM Records in 1987 in a tiny run and has been elusive ever since. “Action Direct is his final extension of his Mass Projection/cool mode - the spaces in his playing now filled in with tapes and effects instead of reeds, bass, cello and drums, the sustain now applied to a wall of sound rather than simple guitar feedback, the spare gestures now appearing against a self-created backdrop of noise.” And “…show a progression similar to Miles Davis’ pre-fusion mid-60’s albums, whose increasing use of pulse suggested rock without directly referencing it; Action Direct could be seen as Takayanagi’s Bitches Brew” (AL) “Action Direct embodies a certain duality, a dichotomy between musician and instrument, machine and man and between science and art. While bestowing his concept with the character of music (or musical collage), Takayanagi set out to transcend and empower the physical identity, reality and significance of the individual sound atoms that lay at the core of this conceptual piece. By unleashing a vast array of demonic sonic clusters and fragmentation bombs, he created a new sonic language that vibrates through our present-day existence”. One of the greatest discs – together with his “Independence – Tread on Sure Ground” debut and “Profile of Jojo” of Takayanagi and also – together with the aforementioned ones, the hardest one to get in its original splendor. Great copy that contains even greater music. One of those “Holy Grails”

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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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