TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI NEW DIRECTION UNIT Axis Japan ORIG 1st Press Free Jazz MINT

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TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI & NEW DIRECTION UNIT: “Axis Another Revolable Thing – New Direction Unit In Concert” 

LABEL: OFFBEAT Records 

Label Number: ORLP-1005 

-  MONSTER RARE JAPAN 1st ORIGINAL PRESS from 1975 

-  TOP COPY ---- NEAR MINT condition. 

-  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!!!!! 

GRADING: 

LP Record: Near Mint ~ Mint just super clean.. without any signs of extended play or use, hard to find a better one. Archival quality 

Jacket: Near Mint ~ Mint ---- with sharp corners/ straight edges and fully readable spine…..archival quality 

Some words on this issue: TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI & NEW DIRECTION UNIT: “Axis Another Revolable Thing Part 1” (Offbeat Records – ORLP-1005) Takayanagi vinyl rarity that is getting tough to unearth these days. Regarding the music, this is what the music critic Teruto Soejima had to say about the music on display on this disc: “Fragment II - Takayanagi's gut string guitar answers Kenji Mori's bass clarinet. Although Takayanagi apparently hadn't touched the gut string guitar for two years, his tone is incredibly sharp and clear. Midway through, Nobuyoshi Ino's cello comes to the fore, subtly changing the music's density. The effective use of fortissimo and pianissimo produces an invisible atmospheric undulation. Fragment III - a percussion solo by Hiroshi Yamazaki. This tune demonstrates how powerful a player Yamazaki is and how very carefully he considers the organization of the whole. He's more than just a percussionist; he makes us aware of everything from body/space interaction to the origins of sound construction. Yamazaki was born in Tokyo on march 28, 1940. He began to make his mark in the Gin Paris period and had his own group for a time. In 1970 he joined New Direction. His experimental, ambitious approach has been widely praised. Fragment VI - in this mass projection piece, sound clusters issuing from the limits of physicality collide, pile up, and hurtle headlong in all directions. It's the energy of thick magma. In accordance with instructions given through Takayanagi's feedback technique, the flow of clumped sounds is gradually accelerated and taken all the way to the void of outer space. Sound makes consciousness float. Supreme ecstasy comes about only in this extreme place. Drifting through all of New Direction unit's music is the scent of blood. Not old, clotted blood, but fresh blood. This isn't a mere semblance of music; it's sound through which the blood of living human beings has passed. Which is why, in the group's performances, blood seethes, flows against the current, burns, oozes, rises, congeals, is spewed out, gushes forth. Vivid red blood. Takayanagi's ultimate artistic aim may well be the color of this blood. Blood calls forth blood. For these four musicians, playing music together essentially means drinking one another's blood. This could be regarded as a secret signing-in-blood ritual that, in turn, calls for solidarity from the audience. Truly, circumstances and art are instantaneously united in this place and time. To borrow the title of a Koji Wakamatsu movie, "blood is redder than the sun."” (Soejima Teruto) A monster blaster of a disc, vicious and unrelenting in its approach and execution.

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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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