Back cover - detail
Label : Frasco – FS-7019/20
Format : 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: Japan - Releazed: 1977
Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
(reissue 2007, Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-38/39, 2-CD set)
Recorded live at Nihon Seinenkan Hall, September 29, 1976
Engineered by – Tsuyoshi Miyasaka
Produced by – Yosuke Yamashita
Original design by – Koga Hirano
Photos by – Haruhisa Yamaguchi and Takumi Uchida
Ingenious Japanese Avant-Free Jazz rarity, double vinyl, Yosuke Yamashita Trio: "Arashi" (Storm),
A1 - Moonlight Desert (11:57)
A2 - Flower Corpse (6:06)
A3 - Prelude by Gong and Human Voices (3:28)
A4 - Ghosts Part I (2:14)
B1 - Ghosts Part II (4:20)
B2 - Golden Veins of a Leaf (4:03)
B3 - Nihility Mobs: Interlude by Footsteps (1:47)
B4 - An Age Is a Sunlight Coming through the Foliage of the Woods (10:21)
B5 - Theme for Arashi (2:58)
C1 - Great Nihility Conference: Part I-V (21:07)
C2 - A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part I (0:51)
D1 - A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part II (0:17)
D2 - A Fan and a Doll (0:49)
D3 - The Future War (0:46)
D4 - Forest in Forest Shade (1:01)
D5 - Theme for Arashi (18:43)
D6 - Moonlight Desert (2:55)
Yosuke Yamashita Trio:
Yosuke Yamashita: piano, percussion
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, percussion
Shota Koyama: drums, percussion
Gerald Oshita: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, percussion
Dairakudakan (Maro Akaji, Ushio Amagatsu, Ko Murobushi, Tetsuro Tamura, Man Uno, Naohiko Torii, Kosei Inao, Nanten Harada, Junpei Sakai, Yosuke Matsuzawa, Mutsuko Tanaka, Anzu Furukawa, and Keiko Katsumata): Butoh dance
And finally, a masterpiece. So what does that free jazz of Albert Ayler have in common with Japanese trio, discover themselves.
Yosuke Yamashita Trio with Gerald Ohshita and Dairakudakan, Recorded live at Nihon Seinenkan Hall, September 29, 1976.
Enjoy!
If you find it, buy this album!