Takayanagi Masayuki: Axis / Another Revolvable Thing 2

Axis/Another Revolvable Thing is the second installment of Blank Forms archival reissues of the music of Japans eternal revolutionary Masayuki Takayanagi following April is the cruellest month 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 Tokyos Shinjuku district the two volumes showcase 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 Takayanagis spacious gradually projection and explosively virulent mass projection concepts across six pieces titled Fragments I - VI and split between the two LPs. As part of his liner notes newly translated for this edition for Part 2 noted Japanese free jazz critic Teruto Soejima wrote: Every time I hear a performance by New Direction Unit for some reason I get carried away by the illusion that I can see their sound. A red hot chaos woven together from percussion reeds and bass or cello. Then jetting out from within it traveling at dizzying speed the sound of the guitar shooting pleasantly right through the center of our cerebellums from front to back. And at that moment we stomp on the gas of our awareness and our imagination careening off in hot pursuit of the group. I can see I can hear each individual sound of the performance. The musicians listen intently to each other their terrifyingly precise concentration creating clusters and lattices of sound. The musics structures arise from perfect interplay. As those structures become gradually denser a sense of time arises. Exactly like the moment when the first amoeba on earth came into existence. Time is already in rapid motion. And then when all the performance variables align perfectly like a rubber band time stretches out towards the infinite. Thrust acceleration... This is not the music of Ligeti or Xenakis its the music of New Direction Unit.

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