Label: Frasco – FS-7001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo / Country: Japan / Released: 1975
Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded in München Union Studio, West Germany 3,4,5 July 1975.
Cover Design By – Ishikawa Hideomi
Photography By – Uchida Takumi
Engineer [Recording] By – Günther Zipelius
Assistent Engineer By – George Dirtinger
Produce – Akira Sakata for Frasco
Album Produce – Kitazawa Yasutaka
A3, B1, B2 written-by – Akira Sakata
Matrix / Runout: (Side A runout, stamped) FS7001A
Matrix / Runout: (Side B runout, stamped) FS7001B
A1 - Frascoration ............................................................................................. 8:54
(T. Moriyama)
A2 - Bass Folk Song No.2 ............................................................................... 2:30
(A. Roidinger)
A3 - Automatic Moon ...................................................................................... 7:29
B1 - Combination ............................................................................................ 9:51
B2 - Counter-Clockwise Trip........................................................................... 9:03
Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, clarinet
Adelhard Roidinger – bass
Takeo Moriyama – drums, percussion
Yosuke Yamashita "Chiasma" recorded on a Trio Summer Europe Tour on June 6, 1975 at the Heidelberger Jazztage, Germany.
Album "Counter Clockwise Trip" is then recorded in a month later (3,4,5 July) in Munich Union Studio, Germany, as Akira Sakata Trio. Akira Sakata (saxophone, clarinet) is a leader, and there is a bassist Adelhardt Roydinger in place of Yosuke Yamashita. Drums & percussion, of course, the same master Takeo Moriyama.
Album "Counter Clockwise Trip" is then recorded in a month later (3,4,5 July) in Munich Union Studio, Germany, as Akira Sakata Trio. Akira Sakata (saxophone, clarinet) is a leader, and there is a bassist Adelhardt Roydinger in place of Yosuke Yamashita. Drums & percussion, of course, the same master Takeo Moriyama.
Sakata going through the sharp pulse of Moriyama Takeo as expected. The bass is also as much talkative as saxophone and drum as much as possible, and it is fully adapted to their essence, sticking to beat-driven things. From the beginning to the end, an album that was dominated by a sense of speed.
Even so, the impression of Moriyama Takeo's drum is softer than Yosuke Yamashita Trio. He got something like some sort of mechanical precision, I thought, this is also very interesting...
If you find it, buy this album!