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ARTIST
TAKAYANAGI NEW DIRECTION UNIT, MASAYUKI
TITLE
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 1
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLANK FORMS
CATALOG #
BF 015LP
BF 015LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
8/21/2020
LP version.
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 1
is released alongside
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 2
(BF 016LP).
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing
is the second installment of Blank Forms' archival reissues of the music of Japan's eternal revolutionary
Masayuki Takayanagi
, following
April Is The Cruellest Month
(BF 008CD/LP), a 1975 studio record by his
New Direction Unit
. Comprised of recordings of a September 5, 1975 concert by the
New Direction Unit
at Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the two-part set showcases Takayanagi in deep pursuit of what he began calling "non-section music" after leaping beyond the confines of his prior descriptor "real jazz". The quartet of Takayanagi (guitar),
Kenji Mori
(reeds),
Nobuyoshi Ino
(bass, cello), and
Hiroshi Yamazaki
(percussion) deftly explores the twin poles of Takayanagi's spacious "gradually projection" and explosively virulent "mass projection" concepts across six pieces, titled "Fragments I-VI". Includes original liner notes by Japanese free jazz critic
Teruto Soejima
(newly translated for this edition). Originally issued in two individual LP volumes in rearranged order; the two separate LP reissues,
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 1
(BF 015LP) and
Axis/Another Revolvable Thing 2
(BF 016LP), keep this rearranged order.
Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi (1932-1991) was a maverick Japanese guitarist, a revolutionary spirit whose oeuvre embodied the radical political movements of late '60s Japan. Having cut his teeth as an accomplished
Lennie Tristano
disciple playing cool jazz in the late '50s, Takayanagi had his mind blown by the
Chicago Transit Authority
's "Free Form Guitar" in 1969 and promptly turned his back on the jazz scene. Takayanagi had found a new direction, an annihilation of jazz and its associated idolatry of hegemonic American culture. Aiming his virtuoso chops towards the stratosphere, Takayanagi dedicated himself to the art of the freakout, laying waste to tradition left and right, most notably via the all-out assault of his aptly-named
New Direction for the Arts
(later New Direction Unit) and collaborations with like-minded outsider saxophonist
Kaoru Abe
. His innovations on the instrument parallel those of
Sonny Sharrock
and
Derek Bailey
and paved the way for the Japanese necromancy of
Keiji Haino
and
Otomo Yoshihide
.
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