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Artist:	MARGINAL CONSORT
Title:	Marginal Consort
Label:	IMPROVISED MUSIC FROM JAPAN (JAPAN)
Format:	4CD
Price:	$70.00
Catalog #:	IMJ 702/5CD

"Marginal Consort: Kazuo Imai, Yasushi Ozawa, Tomonao Koshikawa, Kei Shii, and Masami Tada. Discs 1 & 2 contain the complete recording of a performance that took place in the gym of the former Mikawadai Junior High School, Roppongi, Tokyo, December 7, 2003. Discs 3 & 4 contain the complete recording of a performance that took place at Kotoku Morishita Bunka Center, Tokyo, November 20, 2004. Marginal Consort is a collective improvisation project launched in 1997. All of the members, brought together by Kazuo Imai, were students of Takehisa Kosugi at Bigakko art school in 1975. Once a year, Marginal Consort gives a continuous, uninterrupted performance two to four hours in duration. This 4CD set contains the complete performances of 2003 and 2004 (each on two CDs). The listener is overwhelmed by the myriad sound colors and textures arising from the combination of electric and acoustic sound, and the dynamics that surge and subside like advancing and retreating waves." Packaged in a unique cloth bag, limited to 200 numbered copies.

Artist:	MARGINAL CONSORT
Title:	Collective Improvisation
Label:	PSF (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSF 104CD

"Gorgeous extended drone-n-clatter collective improvisation recorded live on 10/18/97 at Asahi Square in Tokyo. Excerpted from a four-hour performance. Marginal Consort was the name chose for the reformed version of the East Bionic Symphony, yet another 'legendary' lost Japanese improvisation collective. The original group was a class project formed by students of the minimal violinist and multi-media guru Tkahisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers fame). They released one rare record of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink ambient fug at the time (in 1976). This version of the group features a lot of names that may be familiar to PSF obsessives -- Kazuo Imai has had a great solo record on the label, and was a pupil of both Kosugi and freeform guitar-god Masayuki Takayanagi. Masami Tada is a sound-sculptor of some note who has many solo documents 'available'. Yasushi Ozawa is of course better known as the bassist with Fushitsusha. Chie Mukai is the leader of dream-psych group Che-Shizu and a solo performer in her own right." -- Alan Cummings.

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