Masahiko Togashi - We Now Create (1969) {Victor Japan, VICJ-23007 rel 1990}
Masahiko Togashi - We Now Create (1969) {Victor Japan, VICJ-23007 rel 1990}
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© 1969, 1990 Victor Japan | VICJ-23007
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Drums / Percussion
An excellent debut from drummer/percussionist Masahiko Togashi's Quartet released in 1969, a remarkable free jazz album of strong technical and creative skills, with Motoharu Yoshizawa on bass and cello, Mototeru Takagi on sax and reeds, and Masayuki Takayanagi on guitar, an important advance for the players who would go on to form influential bands like New Directions.
"Given my knowledge of the classic Japanese jazz scene, I am basically flunking. I picked up We Now Create believing it to be a rarity - it happens to be considered one of the first free-jazz (avant, creative music, regardless…) in the country's musical index. Otherwise, Togashi seems a regular profilic composer, with this album being one of many, if still a notable one, or an all-over-the-place collaborator, with the Quartet as a particular state. Quartet itself isn't really a designative term, since on all three such albums - this one, Speed & Space, also from 1969, and 1977's Sketch - the only constant presence is Togashi himself.
Not sure if the album, based on its title, is supposed to be a work-in-progress, with no final character whatsoever, or driven by some kind of desire to give shape to things at some point while performing. Togashi tends to overwhelm his fellow musicians and make it even more percussion-centric than expected, but here he queues, or builds up, significantly. Variations On A Theme Of "Feed-Back" features a mixture of Abercrombie-like warm, reverberating, but isolated chords and pizzicato serialism at the guitar (I do recognize Masayuki Takayanagi, having listened to somewhat noisier 80s albums of his). The "Cornpipe" Dance (with Takagi's contribution) could very well be formally spot-on, folkloric-inspired, rubato and aimlessly improvised - but it sounds annoying. Fantasy For Strings, both airy and fragmented, alludes more to modern classical. Eight years later, Sketch will be just as traditionally conceived, even with Togashi forcing his bassist to remain in ostinato throughout his long improvisations, only to get himself stuck in his own monotonies later on.
These are pretty serious and evolved free jazz compositions, yet, with only Togashi's composed solo worth listening to after some unstable strident acts, I was hardly fascinated."-Ricochet, Jazz Music Archives
Masahiko Togashi - We Now Create (1969) {Victor Japan, VICJ-23007 rel 1990}
Personnel:
Motoharu Yoshizawa - bass, cello
Masahiko Togashi - drums, percussion
Masayuki Takayanagi - guitar
Mototeru Takagi - tenor saxophone, cornpipe
Recorded May 23, 1969 at Tokyo Studio Center.
Tracks
01 - Variations on a Theme of 'Feed-Back'
02 - Invitation to 'Corn Pipe' Dance
03 - Artistry in Percussions
04 - Fantasy for Strings
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Masahiko Togashi Quartet / We Now Create
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Masahiko Togashi Quartet / We Now Create
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.37 | 11:57.70 | 37 | 53881
2 | 11:58.32 | 7:12.50 | 53882 | 86331
3 | 19:11.07 | 9:24.23 | 86332 | 128654
4 | 28:35.30 | 8:55.57 | 128655 | 168836
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Masahiko Togashi - We Now Create (1969) {Victor Japan, VICJ-23007 rel 1990}
Masahiko Togashi - We Now Create (1969) {Victor Japan, VICJ-23007 rel 1990}
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