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		FULL CIRCLE For more than three decades Masayuki Takayanagi (1932–1991) has served as a cult figure to a small but rabid coterie of listeners searching for the roots of extremity in improvised music and free jazz.
		Unfortunately, a good portion of Takayanagi's early free-music output is marred by lousy recording quality: early ’70s performances on the DIW and PSF labels suffice as archival documents but barely hint at the true strength and articulation of the music.
		Takayanagi's guitar coasts arrogantly over the damage in thick sheets of atonality before rising into dog-whistle range, calling an end to a harrowing 22 minutes of sustained devastation.
	www.sfbg.com /printable_entry.php?entry_id=1889 (705 words)

	Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi
		Despite a typically clean and well-engineered Japanese-style recording, Takayanagi and band were summoning a noxious, brutally dense and furious hailstorm of noise from their meager instruments - guitar, cello and percussion.
		Takayanagi started out performing pretty traditional jazz, but into the 70s and 80s, he pursued free jazz with an exploding, assaulting style, carrying out the best tradition of the works of Ornette Coleman, late Coltrane, and obviously Sonny Sharrock.
		What happens on Tribute to Makayuki Takayanagi is more along the lines of mastering a feeling, a sort of density and electric whirlwind, an extraction of the essence of Takayanagi that parallels and simulates but does not replace or copy.
	nowave.pair.com /luttenbachers/takayanagi.html (1302 words)

	i hate music :: View topic - Masayuki Takayanagi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Masayuki Takayanagi has used a number of terms to describe the thing he is pursuing.
		Masayuki Takayanagi was born in Tokyo on December 22, 1932.
		Takayanagi is not only a formidably skillful and talented guitarist, but an artist continually and comprehensively rethinking his point of view and his own musical character.
	ihatemusic.bagatellen.com /viewtopic.php?t=4459 (2810 words)

	kaoru & masayuki info
		Unfortunately, Takayanagi was also possessed of an extremely acid tongue, and managed to get himself completely offside with the jazz establishment in a fairly short space of time, going on to live an enforcedly marginal musical existence.
		After the Takayanagi duo Abe's next release would be the edition-of-500, excruciatingly rare collector's item Winter 1972 album (upon which much of his fame/infamy would come to be based), but it didn't come out until 1974, leaving a major chronological hole, which has now happily been almost completely filled.
		Takayanagi is simply sensational, extracting vicious, razor-edge feedback skrees from his guitar which slice gaping holes in the air; Abe, as one would expect, rises to the challenge, meeting Takayanagi head-on, and going all-out to match him blast for blast.
	mysite.verizon.net /spin17/kaoru.html (4679 words)

	Avantgarde Music. Masayuki Takayanagi: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Masayuki Takayanagi (1932), a veteran of Japanese jazz bands since the late 1950s, was one of the earliest noise guitar improvisers, and the first (with Keith Rowe) to use the table-top guitar.
		Flower Girl (1966) and The Smile I Love (Jinya, 1966) were recorded in 1966 by a quintet led by the guitarist.
		In 1969 Takayanagi formed his New Directions trio (initially Motoharu Yoshizawa on bass and cello, Yoshisaburo Toyozumi on percussion) that proceeded to record Independence (Union, 1970), recorded in 1969 and 1970, Call in Question (PSF, 1970), recorded in 1970 with the addition of Motoreru Takagi on sax,
	www.scaruffi.com /avant/takayana.html (357 words)

	Free jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		European free jazz can generally be seen as approaching free improvisation, with an ever more distant relationship to jazz tradition.
		That being said, specifically Brötzmann has had a significant impact on the free jazz players of the U.S. Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi and saxophonist Kaoru Abe, among others, took free jazz in another direction, approaching the energy levels of noise.
		Some international jazz musicians have come to North America and become immersed in free jazz, most notably Ivo Perelman from Brazil and Gato Barbieri of Argentina (this influence is evident in Barbieri's early work, but fades in his later, more commercially oriented efforts).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_jazz (1682 words)

	Masayuki Takayanagi : Mass Projection - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		This album is part one of the concert that continues with Gradually Projection, catalogued as DIW 415.
		Mass Projection is the insanely torrid concert meeting of free music masters Kaoru Abe (now deceased) and guitarist Masayuki Takayanaga.
		Now into the 21st century, there are few recorded dates -- live or in the studio -- that have reached a level of white-hot improvisation or communication as this one has.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1110980,00.html (411 words)

	Masayuki Takayanagi, Independence - Tread On Sure Ground, Tiliqua, CD
		Masayuki Takayanagi, Independence - Tread On Sure Ground, Tiliqua, CD Home
		New release in Tiliqua Records ongoing Archival Series is this quintessential album by Takayanagi Masayuki.
		Recorded at the Teichiku Kaikan studios on 18 September 1969 (released in 1970), Independence — Tread On Sure Ground, is largely regarded as the first true classic of Japanese free-jazz.
	www.secondlayer.co.uk /index/p4045.htm (368 words)

	EAR/Rational Music!
		The LP comes as a hand numbered deluxe hard carton single jacket edition containing an explanatory insert that is printed separately on high quality glossy paper.
		As far as the music is concerned, I leave you with a few quotes lifted out of the liner notes in order for you to get a glimpse of the stratospherically heights the music tends to skyrocket into.
		While bestowing his concept with the character of music (or musical collage), Takayanagi set out to transcend and empower the physical identity, reality and significance of the individual sound atoms that lay at the core of this conceptual piece.
	www.ear-rational.com /detail.php?id=23385 (316 words)

	Browse by Artist: IMAI, KAZUO
		He studied for 13 years under the guidance of late guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi, and played on occasion with the New Direction ensemble.
		He was the only graduate of Takayanagi's infamously tough private music school; in addition he was a student of Takehisa Kosugi and participated in Kosugi's 'legendary' pioneering multi-media improv unit, The Taj Mahal Travellers.
		Imai's training as an improviser and guitarist saw him studying with both Masayuki Takayanagi (famously, Imai was the one and only student to ever graduate under Takayanagi's tutelage), and Takehisa Kosugi.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/imai.kazuo.html (375 words)

	volcanic tongue \| underground music & ephemera
		Japan-only release of free guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi's last ever ‘jazz'; group, recorded here in 1983 and featuring drummer Hiroshi Yamazaki (sometime shadow partner of the late Kaoru Abe) and pianist Fumio Yasuda (replacing regular bassist Nobuyoshi Ino).
		Takayanagi still has that clean/gutsy quicksilver sound to his guitar that was so great on Lonely Woman and the combination of fluid straightahead energy and cluster-fuck detours that he rolls through here is extremely satisfying.
		Outside of Takayanagi's more explosive experiments, his work deeper inside the pocket is possessed of its own intimate mystery and the way Jojo squeezes bubbles of nuance from even the most played-through of progressions is still fairly revelatory.
	www.volcanictongue.com /label.php?lab=Jinya+Disc (298 words)

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		Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese guitarist who did work in the vein of prepared guitar and cut-ups under his Action Direct moniker.
		Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese > guitarist who did work in the vein of prepared guitar and cut-ups under > his Action Direct moniker.
		Masayuki Takayanagi has a solo prepared table-top guitar disc on the Japanese Jinya label called 'Inanimate Nature' as well as one with his group New Direction called 'Live Independence' (or something like that - this is off hand) with Moto Yoshisawa on bass and a percussionist.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/zorn-list/archive/v02.n295 (1904 words)

	GROB546 Weasel Walter/Kevin Drumm/Fred Lonberg-Holm
		Since Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi certainly does not stand for the finely engraved music that has made O’Rourke popular worldwide.
		The recording was free improvised Death Metal, a committed transformation of the early noise music of Takayanagi (this first Japanese noise guitarist had his important phase in the 70’s) into the present.
		The (journalistic) rejection could really only lead to making a further Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi album and to work out even more concretely the presumed disrespectfullness.
	www.churchofgrob.com /Churchofgrob/CATALOG/Grob546/index.html (326 words)

	Weasel Walter/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Jim O'Rourke: Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi: Pitchfork Record Review
		For the better part of the 50s and 60s, Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi was among Japan's best-respected jazz guitarists.
		By the 1980s, Takayanagi had changed his song entirely, abandoning the comfort of structure for the cathartic joy of noise, his work paving the way for the likes of future innovators like Merzbow, K.K. Null and Bill Horith.
		Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi is the sound of music crumbling apart, crashing to the ground, tearing itself apart from the inside.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/23081-tribute-to-masayuki-takayanagi (887 words)

	This is the thread where we talk about what a genius masayuki Takayanagi was!
		Suffice to say, Takayanagi is right there with Rowe, Bailey, Hendrix, Kaiser amongst the best who ever had the privilege of working with electricity.
		I picked up a reissue of masayuki takayanagi's 'angry waves live', which documents a live gig from abt '85 or so.
		I have picked up on Takayanagi big time since reading this thread before.
	ilx.wh3rd.net /thread.php?msgid=3404829 (869 words)

	Masayuki Takayanagi & New Directions - Extraction – Music at Last.fm
		Masayuki Takayanagi and New Directions - Extraction – Music at Last.fm
		We don’t know much about Masayuki Takayanagi & New Directions yet.
		For Masayuki Takayanagi and New Directions – Extraction
	www.last.fm /music/Masayuki%2BTakayanagi%2B%2526%2BNew%2BDirections/_/Extraction (159 words)

	PSF Records - New Release -
		Recorded in May 1975, less than a month after the legendarily intense April is the Cruellest Month, Eclipse has always been the rarest and most mysterious of the Takayanagi and New Direction records.
		Eclipse sees the same group that recorded April is and the two volumes of Axis playing at a dizzying peak of telepathic empathy.
		Grimly ratcheted tension, whooping freedom, slash and burn explosions, and the unmistakeable hovering, molten whine of Takayanagi’s guitar Simply put a classic, classic record that needs to be heard by anyone with an ear for freedom sounds.
	psfrecords.com /new.html (1125 words)

	MUTANT SOUNDS: Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction -Call in Question ,LP,1970,Japan
		The rhythm section underpins and the reeds (and flute?) accentuate and scour your grey matter, but it's mostly up to Takayanagi to fry your synapses.
		Keiji Haino was born by the bowels of the Takayanagi's "Mass Projection" concept of guitar playing here.
		they are a bunch of kids close to Takayanagi's destruction in "Call in Question" (other one i would recommend is "Mass Projection", made with Kaoru Abe).
	mutant-sounds.blogspot.com /2007/03/masayuki-takayanagi-new-direction-call.html (634 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mass Projection: Music: Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
		A master of the free jazz guitar, Masayuki Takayanagi, is joined by a horn player whom I was previously unaware of and now can revere properly -Karou Abe.
		The amazing galactic extend to which these two cosmos consuming noisemeisters can carry out their squabbling lines and drones is unbelievable.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059RU3 (195 words)

	Masayuki Takayanagi - Free Form Suite - XRCD CD
		Masayuki Takayanagi - Free Form Suite - XRCD CD Home Music Equipment Miscellaneous Specials Help
		Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi, Kenji Mori, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Joe Mizuki.
		Prices and availability are subject to change without notice.
	store.acousticsounds.com /browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=8361 (108 words)

	Improvised Music from Japan: CD Shop
		dmrp-111 Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Axis: Another Revolvable Thing, Vol.
		dmrp-110 Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - Axis: Another Revolvable Thing, Vol.
		b-12 Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit - April Is the Cruellest Month (Jinya Disc, B-12) (CD) 2,552
	www.japanimprov.com /cdshop2 (8492 words)

	Beta-lactam Ring Records: Catalog
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		Another previously unreleased archive release from Takayanagi, the premier Japanese free-guitar stylist.
		Recorded live in 1970, waves of trademark feedback abound, but also some more serene segments with flute, freedom atmospherics, etc. Not as...
	www.blrrecords.com /shop.php?art=takayanagi+masayuki&let=c (152 words)

	dasgemeine.com: Masayuki Takayanagi / el pulso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FORMAT : CD Free form guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi's speciality label "JINYA DISC" vol.4
		in 89' Masayuki Takayanagi starts classic tango group "Loco Takayanagi and Los Pobres"
		Notify me of updates to Masayuki Takayanagi / el pulso
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	dasgemeine.com: Masayuki Takayanagi / the smile i love (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		FORMAT : CD Free form guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi's speciality label "JINYA DISC" vol.3
		this is very important album that it's Takayanagi's Bosa-Nova group in 66' before was
		Notify me of updates to Masayuki Takayanagi / the smile i love
	dasgemeine.com /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1053&... (102 words)

	Playlist for Janitor From Mars with R. Lim - June 26, 2002
		June 26, 2002: Takayanagi no theme (Theme for Takayanagi)
		Tribute to Masayuki Takayanagi - December 22, 1932 - June 23, 1991
		Recorded 9/5/75; Takayanagi- g, Kenji Mori- reeds, Nobuyoshi Ino- bs, Hiroshi Yamazaki- ds, percussion [playlist start time about 3 minutes in]
	www.wfmu.org /playlists/shows/3944 (259 words)

	Get Lyrics - Masayuki Takayanagi Albums - Page 1
		Kaitai Teki Kohkan (new Direction) by Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe
		Mass Projection by Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe
		Gradually Projection by Masayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe
	www.getlyrics.com /albums/masayuki+takayanagi (132 words)

	Other Music Update (December 6, 2000)
		MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI "Cool Jojo" (Three Blind Mice, Japan) CD $31.99
		When he was not shredding all preconceived notions of free
		Takayanagi is unleashed in astounding eruptions of melodic
	www.othermusic.com /december6update.html (1611 words)

	Head Heritage \| Unsung \| Links
		The mail order focuses on rare out of print vinyl, private pressings, Japanese psych, free jazz, avant-garde, Japanese female vocals from sixties and seventies, erotic enka, esoteric sounds and general psychedelic obscurities out of the Far East.
		The label focuses on past and present artists such as Aso Ai, Takayanagi Masayuki, Space Machine and other assorted dysfunctional sonic mayhem.
		Worth to have a look and apparently they have a mailing list one can subscribe to.
	www.headheritage.com /unsung/links/?cat=3 (442 words)

	TBM DISCOGRAPHY -MASAYUKI 'JOJO" TAKAYANAGI- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To listen to RealAudio, you need the latest version of the RealMedia player, whitch you can download for free.
		Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi(ac-g,el-g,gu-g), Kenji Mori(cl,fl,ss,as,pic), Hiroshi Yamazaki(ds,perc), Joe Mizuki(ds,perc)
		THE BLUES / YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS / SUN IN THE EAST / FREE FORM SUITE / 1ST MOVEMENT / 2ND MOVEMENT / 3RD MOVEMENT
	www.tvz.com /tbm/cat_e/takahashi.htm (72 words)

	Songsearch: Buy Tribute To Masayuki Takay Music CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tribute To Masayuki Takay Music CDs at Songsearch.com.
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