Label:
Columbia – JDX-42
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold / Country: Japan / Released: 1970
Style:
Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded
live at Yamaha Hall, Tokyo, June 17, 1970
Made
By – Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd.
Composed
By – Masahiko Sato
Liner
Notes – Hisamitsu Noguchi and Jun Numata
Matrix
/ Runout (Side A): SX-2311 - JDX-42-A 1- A
Matrix
/ Runout (Side B): SX-2312 - JDX-42-B 1- B
side
1:
A
- Phase 1 .............................................................................................................
20:48
side
2:
B
- Phase 2 .............................................................................................................
17:55
Masahiko
Sato – piano
One
of the rarest albums ever from the mighty Masahiko Sato, a composer and
arranger,as well as a key figure in the avantgarde music from Japan. Originally
issued on Japan Columbia in 1970, the two sides of very free piano show a
sensitivity that's really amazing – still moments of freedom that reflect
Sato's connection to the avant garde of the time, interwoven with his own sense
of cosmic creation, in ways that are similar to his later projects.
Born
in Tokyo, in 1941, Masahiko Sato's earliest influences came from Olivier
Messiaen and Yuji Takahashi, although the pianist earned his living playing in
various jazz combos in Japan, Europe and the USA throughout the late 1950s and
early 1960s. As a jazz soloist, arranger, free player, or even as organist on
the more extreme Japanese rock LPs of the time, Masahiko Sato successfully
navigated his way through it all. Indeed, in this way, Sato is probably the
Japanese equivalent of German free spirit Wolfgang Dauner, with whom he played
in the very early 1970s.
If
you find it, buy this album!
