Masahiko Togashi, Mototeru Takagi
Isolation
Columbia (Japan) 1976
SW-7051 (LP)
sleeve : VG+(SRW, SPSE/TOC: crack and tape on side, wear on edge and corner.)
media : VG+/EX(some slightly noises. side B has some click noises caused by small scratches.)
This is an album released in 1969 by the great Japanese drummer/percussionist Masahiko Togashi, who continued to perform and create his own unique playing style despite being paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury. Duo with saxophonist Motoeru Takagi, who laid the foundation of early free jazz in Japan with Togashi through his collaborations with Motoharu Yoshizawa, Masayuki Takayanagi, and others. This is a recording of one of the soundtrack recordings made at the request of film director Masao Adachi, with whom they had long been in contact, and it is the last performance of Togashi before he lost his lower body. It is a powerful, bouncing, intense free jazz, but the ethnic sentiments that are hidden in between the intonations have already been expressed.
A: Isolation I
A: Isolation I
B: Isolation II