Masayuki Takayanagi Angry Waves

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Released earlier in the year these two archived documents were recorded live in 1984 showing the rarely recorded guitar trio of Takayanagi (Electric Guitar), Nobuyoshi Ino (Bass) and Hiroshi Yamazaki (Drums). It’s the same line-up that released the classic 850113 album (the date on which it was recorded), which is my personal Takayanagi favourite. Unlike the live recordings on 850113 the ones on Angry Waves Vol.1 & 2 were not originally released and stayed in Takayanagi’s private collection until recently. These live materials have now been mastered from the original cassette tapes, and if that doesn’t sound too promising, then think again because they sound much better than one might expect. To have two new discs of this great trio is of real historical importance for all Takayanagi fans as this line-up had only previously released the one album, which was a great shame. Within the guitarists canon this group falls in between the earlier work of his New Direction Unit and the tabletop and electronics solo guitar of Action Direct. Whereas the focus of both of those could be seen as using noise based materials to create differing musics, the Angry Waves trio functions more traditionally with regard to instrumental roles using a free-jazz vocabulary. In particular, Takayanagi’s conception for this group was the music of Albert Ayler, to be specific, and both the Angry Waves discs contain titles that nod to the debt that the guitarist obviously felt for the great saxophon

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850113

Dislocation

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