TAKEMITSU TORU Works for Magnetic Tape KWAIDAN Water Music ELECTRONIC MINT TOP

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TAKEMITSU TORU: “Works of Toru Takemitsu”

Label: VICTOR Records Japan

Label Number: VX-21

BLOODY RARE Original 1st Japanese pressing – gatefold jacket! One of the rarest TAKEMITSU related items and one of his only Electronic/ Musique Concrete releases!!! FIRST Japanese Press Issue complete with liner notes by Akiyama Kuniharu!!!! TOP CONDITION FOR ARCHIVAL COLLECTOR

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ MINT, perfect all the way

Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: TAKEMITSU TORU: “The Works of Takemitsu Toru -2 – Water Music for Magnetic Tape/ Vocalism A.I/ Kwaidan” (Victor – VX-21) (Record: Mint/ Gatefold Jacket: Mint/ OBI: Mint). FIRST original press in gatefold jacket. 2nd press came in single jacket. One of the very few completely electronic records by Takemitsu Toru is this gem here, a truly breathtakingly awesome disc. “Water Music” is for magnetic tape; “Vocalism A.I.” is a completely tape music piece and the whole of side B is also completely comprised out of spliced tapes and modulated sounds. Takemitsu’s electronic scores are far and few in between but they are so awesome. Upon creating them he approaches his subject and attacks its sonic matter through a system of Dickensian severity and dissects all of its sonic movements into spliced and sped up and down fractious pieces. His intuitive approach as one of the old skool Japanese composers to tackle purely electronic sound as if to create an arresting experience and by doing so he exists on its own plane and is both impervious to and not responsible for trends of any kind. Still this makes that his electronic scores sound truly Japanese and are brimful with poetic resonance, busy folding and manipulating space into its quest for the organization of sound. His tape experiments are endowed with beauty and the enhancements give his skeletal music undercurrents of depth. Too beautiful for words, expect that Takemitsu did not record much purely electronic music and records documenting his groundbreaking work are scarce and far in between. 1st pressing just never turns up these days…. stunning Japanese electronic music!!!!!

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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