Masahiko Togashi "Spiritual Nature"

Masahiko Togashi
Spiritual Nature

East Wind (Japan) 1975

EW-8013 (LP) w/obi, insert.

sleeve : VG+(SRW, SPSE: light crack on side, wear on corner, dirts.)

media : EX+/EX(some slightly surface noises.)

This is an album released in 1975 by Masahiko Togashi, the great drummer/percussionist who is the pride of Japan, and who continued to perform despite being paralyzed in the lower half of his body due to a spinal cord injury, creating his own unique playing style. This is a compilation of some of the live recordings from a concert held at Kosei-Nenkin Kaikan in Tokyo in the same year. A total of 10 jazz musicians including Sadao Watanabe, Shigeo Suzuki, Shozo Nakagawa, and Masahiko Sato perform earthy free improvisation. It is a masterpiece of Japanese ethnic jazz that expresses the organic spirituality of Masahiko Togashi, who learned through his encounter with Don Cherry to sing about the unity of man and nature in the gestures of life. It is as if Don Cherry were on stage…

A1: The Beginning