AKIRA SAKATA TRIO – Counter Clockwise Trip (Frasco-FS-7001/LP-1975)

Label: Frasco – FS-7001

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo / Country: Japan / Released: 1975

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded in München Union Studio, West Germany  3,4,5 July 1975.

Cover Design By – Ishikawa Hideomi

Photography By – Uchida Takumi

Engineer [Recording] By – Günther Zipelius

Assistent Engineer By – George Dirtinger

Produce  – Akira Sakata for Frasco

Album Produce – Kitazawa Yasutaka

A3, B1, B2 written-by – Akira Sakata

Matrix / Runout: (Side A runout, stamped) FS7001A

Matrix / Runout: (Side B runout, stamped) FS7001B

A1 - Frascoration ............................................................................................. 8:54

         (T. Moriyama)

A2 - Bass Folk Song No.2 ............................................................................... 2:30

         (A. Roidinger)

A3 - Automatic Moon ...................................................................................... 7:29

B1 - Combination ............................................................................................ 9:51

B2 - Counter-Clockwise Trip ........................................................................... 9:03

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, clarinet

Adelhard Roidinger – bass

Takeo Moriyama – drums, percussion

Yosuke Yamashita "Chiasma" recorded on a Trio Summer Europe Tour on June 6, 1975 at the Heidelberger Jazztage, Germany.
Album "Counter Clockwise Trip" is then recorded in a month later (3,4,5 July) in Munich Union Studio, Germany, as Akira Sakata Trio. Akira Sakata (saxophone, clarinet) is a leader, and there is a bassist Adelhard Roidinger in place of Yosuke Yamashita. Drums & percussion, of course, the same master Takeo Moriyama.

Sakata going through the sharp pulse of Moriyama Takeo as expected. The bass is also as much talkative as saxophone and drum as much as possible, and it is fully adapted to their essence, sticking to beat-driven things. From the beginning to the end, an album that was dominated by a sense of speed.

Even so, the impression of Moriyama Takeo's drum is softer than Yosuke Yamashita Trio. He got something like some sort of mechanical precision, I thought, this is also very interesting...

If you find it, buy this album!