Masahiko Togashi Quartet
Speed and Space
Union Records (Japan) 197x
KUL-5008 (LP)
sleeve : EX(some slightly dirts.)
media : EX+/EX(some slightly surface noises. side B has one very slightly hairlines that does not affect to sounds. B2 has two slightly click noises.)
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 in the lower half of his body due to a spinal cord injury. Apart from the activities of ESSG (Experimental Sound Space Group), which he was pursuing at the time, he formed a quartet with his allies including Masahiko Sato, Motoki Takagi, and Yoshio Ikeda, and recorded this work following his previous album "We Now Create". It opens with A1, which is a spacious piece with a prepaid piano and chimes floating quietly in the air, and then develops into a raging free improvisation, returning to the floating space at the end of the final piece, B2. ＜This is a reissue released from the <Japan Jazz Essence 1500> series.
A3: 期待 Expectation
B2: Speed & Space #1