Tuesday, December 31, 2019

TORU TAKEMITSU – [武満徹の作業] Works Of Toru Takemitsu - 1 (LP-1966)




Label: Victor ‎– VX-20
Series: Contemporary Music Of Japan – 1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo / Country: Japan / Released: 1966
Style: Musique Concrète, Contemporary, Experimental
Manufactured By – Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
Stereo-Orthophonic High Fidelity.  His Master's Voice
Design – Kohei Sugiura
Engineer [Recording] – Takashi Watanabe
Producer – Jun Taki
Liner Notes – Kuniharu Akiyama
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side A, Stamped): VX-20 – VLY 1055 122+ 1DCSCDFG II I OA
Matrix / Runout (Runout, Side B, Stamped): VX-20 – VLY 1056 152+

side 1:
A1 - Requiem For Strings .......................................................................................... 9:55
A2 - The Horizon, Dorian - 8 Harmonic Pitches With 9 Echoes ............................... 11:05
        Conductor – Hiroshi Wakasugi
        Orchestra – Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

side 2:
B  -  Coral Island For Soprano And Orchestra ......................................................... 16:40
        Conductor – Hiroshi Wakasugi
        Orchestra – Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra
        Soprano Vocals – Mutsumi Masuda

ComposerToru Takemitsu


Takemitsu’s interest in a wide variety of artistic expressive forms and his individual sense of freedom developed through his autodidacticism shaped the character of his avant-garde style.




As early as 1950, he utilised a tape recorder to create musical collages from “real” sounds ("musique concrète": Water Music, 1960; Kwaidan, 1964). In the early 1960s, two new elements appeared in Takemitsu’s works: on the one hand, traditional Japanese music (November Steps – for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra) in the form of the deliberate juxtaposition of Eastern and Western musical culture and, on the other hand, the musical representation of natural phenomena (ARCI for orchestra, 1963-1966). Representations of the art of Japanese gardens through the utilisation of symbolic musical metaphors are frequently encountered in his compositions.



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SANO KIYOHIKO [佐野清彦] – Kiui (ALM Records ‎– AL-3008-9 / 2LP-1979)




Label: ALM Records ‎– AL-3008-9
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan
Released: 1979
Style: Experimental, Free Improvisation
Collection of works from 70 to 79 years, released 1979.
Manufactured By – Kojima Recordings, Inc.
1-sided fold-out insert with detailed description of tracks in Japanese, red and grey art work
Matrix / Runout (Runout, etching, side 1): ALM-1 – AL-3008-A
Matrix / Runout (Runout, etching, side 2): ALM-1 – AL-3008-B
Matrix / Runout (Runout, etching, side 3): ALM-2 – AL-3009-A
Matrix / Runout (Runout, etching, side 4): ALM-2 – AL-3009-B

side 1:
A1 - Anonimus ............................................................................................................ 9:30
A2 - Gap ................................................................................................................... 10:30
A3 - Cue ..................................................................................................................... 5:50

side 2:
B1 - Toss-up .............................................................................................................. 10:00
B2 - For TRAZOM ...................................................................................................... 9:00
B3 - URN .................................................................................................................... 8:20

side 3:
C1 - Source ............................................................................................................... 13:40
C2 - Space ................................................................................................................ 12:30

side 4:
D  -  KIUI ................................................................................................................... 29:50

Performers – Kiyohiko Sano, Masami Tada, Masaru Soga and others



"Kiui" Avant/Experimental Music Double LP Album. Alm Records AL-3008-9. Japanese Pressing from late 1970's. Includes an informative insert.




Kiyoshihiko Sano who led the free improvisation orchestra "GAP" (short for Ground Apple Practice) together with Masaru Soga, who participated in "Line Music" by Jo Kondo, and Masami Tada of East Bionic Symphonia. This work is a collection of works from 70 to 79 years before GAP formation. Although it is a solo name, GAP plans to publish records. There is no context connecting each song, and trial and error in performance and composition are recorded, and there are also songs in which Masaru Soga and Masami Tada are participating, so there is a glimpse of the background directly connected to GAP.

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