☆ John Cage《4’33”》(Floating Earth)(1991)
☆《John Cage》(Cramps)(1974)
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☆ Erik Satie《Vexations》(Decca)(1990)
☆ Terry Riley《In C》(CBS)(1968)
☆ Steve Reich《Early Works》(Elektra)(1987)
☆ La Monte Young《Dream House 78’17”》(Shandar)(1973)
☆ La Monte Young《The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China》(Gramavision)(1991)
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☆ AMM《AMMMUSIC》(Elektra)(1967)
☆ AMM《It had been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado》(ECM)(1980)
☆ Gruppo di Improvvisazione
Nuova Consonanza《Musica su Schemi》(Cramps)(1976)
☆ Taj-Mahal Travelers《July 15, 1972》(CBS Sony)(1972)
The most famous Japanese collective improvisation group
is Taj-Mahal Travelers, which was active in 1970’s. The members were seven
persons including famous contemporary music composer Kosugi Takehisa,
and non-musician members, PA operator, etc. They had no leaders and their
plying style was very flexible. Also the music was. Once players were
only two. The other time they divided two groups and played at other places
at a time. Traveling around the world, they played on TV and radio, rock
concerts, jazz clubs, contemporary music festivals, on the beach at dawn,
wedding party of a pop star….
They had only one rule of improvisation - do what you want. If it would
be done, it may be too noisy music, we think. But their music is very
fantastic and it’s a miracle. How psychedelic it is! What good trip music!
While they were playing, members came in and out as they like. Very freely
they did. They said there was a member slept on stage drinking beer (that
member might be Kosugi). Nobody knew when the music had started, and while
nobody knew the music was over.
The group was formed in 1969. And the members together went on a hippie
trip by bus to Europe, Turkey and India (to the Taj-Mahal Temple). Returned
to Japan, they hold a celebration concert on July of 1972 at Sogetsu Kaikan,
the academic hall that was the most avant-garde in Japan at that time.
This album was recorded at that concert.
When you listen to this, you will find yourself drifting with good vibrations
in your dream. Oriental feelings will come, too.
☆ Gavin Brayers《The Sinking of the Titanic》(Point Music)(1994)
☆ David Bedford《Nurses Songs with Elephants》(Dandelion)(1972)
☆ O.S.T.《The Exorcist》(WEA)(1974)
☆ O.S.T.《2001:A Space Odyssey》(MGM)(1968)
