TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI Independence 1969 Japan Free Jazz w/ OBI MINT RARE Union Rec

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TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI & NEW DIRECTIONS: “Independence”

Label: UNION

Label Number: JUP-3

Bloody Rare JAPAN 2nd press ISSUE of this heavy free jazz blow out of 1969. Top condition, rarely surfaces especially in MINT condition with OBI!!!! Impossible to upgrade upon!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ MINT

Jacket: Near Mint ~ MINT

OBI: Near Mint ~ MINT

Some words on this issue: TAKAYANAGI MASAYUKI: “Independence” (Union Records – JUP-3) (Record: Near Mint/ Jacket: Near Mint/ OBI: Mint). Unbelievable, Independence on vinyl and with obi attached. Although this is the 2nd pressing, they are almost as hard to come by as the original, only with this difference that the original 1st press comes with a 4 digit price tag and never surfaces, there where this one is way cheaper and surfaces about once every two or three years. It was an edition of only 500 copies so go figure it out. This was Takayanagi’s first recording as a leader after his involvement with Togashi Masahiko’s “We Now Create” brain ripper. Here, Takayanagi gets flanked by the best free blowing heads on the scene being bass monster virtuoso Yoshizawa Motoharu and skin mangler Toyozumi Yoshisaburo. Hardcore kerosene driven free jazz blats from 1969. Quintessential album by Takayanagi Masayuki. It was his debut recording as a leader with his newly erected unit The New Directions, a trio consisting out of bassist Yoshizawa and drummer Toyozumi ‘Sabu' Yoshisaburô. Recorded at the Teichiku Kaikan studios on 18 September 1969 (released in 1970), Independence – Tread on Sure Ground, is largely regarded as the first true classic of Japanese free jazz. The group thrashes out an entirely new Japanese methodology for improvisation based on Takayanagi's theories about progressive art. As Alan Cummings explains in his liner notes to the CD reissue, the group's sonic outburst is pregnant with an urgent intensity similar to a violent rotating windstorm. “An electric guitar string is pinged with a sour and markedly unlovely resonance. It is left to fade away naturally, its dying whisper replaced with a wavering feedback tone that grows steadily in volume and thickness. Against the slow feedback wave, a sudden loud percussive crash, urgent staccato rolls across the toms, and the dry rasp of a rattle. A choppy, non-sequential series of chords from the guitar, still mouth-puckeringly bitter is set against the warmer resonance of an alternately bowed and plucked double bass. Each instrument sounds self-contained, like lunar bodies spinning on their own axes at different tempos, but locked together by unfathomably complex rules of motion. Additional percussive rattles and scrapes have been overdubbed to fill in the blank space. Tendrils of feedback snake in and out, like cosmic dust from some cataclysmic celestial event. The playing is exploratory and deliberate, technically adept and keenly judged, easily sustaining interest and motion across the track's eleven minutes. Its sense of focused concentration is more akin to the European free improvisation of AMM or The Spontaneous Music Ensemble than the violent ecstasies of American fire music.” (Alan Cummings).

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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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