TOKK ENSEMBLE Takehisa Kosugi/ ICHIYANAGI/ Takemitsu Japan 1975 ORIG Avant EX NM

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TOKK ENSEMBLE TOKYO: “Music For Living Process – Stromung – Nucleus – Munari By Munari – Corona for Pianist”

LABEL: VICTOR Records

Label Number: SJX-7539

- HYPER Rare Japan ORIGINAL FIRST PRESS from 1975

- Killer Experimental Avant-Garde LP with Toshi Ichiyanagi/ Kosugi Takehisa/ Takemitsu Toru/ Maki Ishii..

- All complete and NM copies just hardly ever surfaces

- Archival condition!!!! 

GRADING: 

LP Record: Near Mint, perfect all way round with no defects or signs of any play. Archival quality – next to impossible to ever upgrade upon

Jacket: Excellent  – with solid & thick & fully readable spine/ straight edges/ sharp corners. Sole defect is a 3 cm middle spine crack.

Some words on this issue: TOKK ENSEMBLE TOKYO:v “Music For Living Process – Stromung – Nucleus – Munari By Munari – Corona for Pianist” (Victor – SJX-7539). Released in 1975, this disc brings together some of the greatest players of the Japanese avant-garde scene. Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takemitsu Toru, Kosugi Takehisa, Maki Ishii, Yoshino Irino and Yasunari Yamaguchi amongst others all group together on this one. Kosugi contributes on the Toshi Ichiyanagi composition “Music for Living Process”, a stunning piece de resistance for shakuhachi (Katsuya Yokoyama is amazing on this one), harp, percussion, electric violin and piano. The overall atmosphere is austere and reminds me a bit of the soundtrack to “Kwaidan” as far as the otherworldly and eerie atmosphere is concerned. Kosugi accentuations are spot on and bring out the spooky character of Yokoyama’s shakuhachi play and Ichiyanagi minimal piano flirtations even more. In all, the piece possesses a beauty of blood curdling qualities and with this opening track is the mood set into which the other pieces will evolve.

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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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