Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Eclipse [LP] Ambient / New Age His work moves freely between

His work moves freely between richly textural surface noise

or ‘prepared’ turntables are often used to bring about the sounds

This is a very special release for the composer

but extremely beauty

picking up raw material from the ordinary

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Eclipse [LP] Ambient / New Age His work moves freely between"Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature, and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments;