We Now Create

TOGASHI MASAHIKO QUARTET (富樫雅彦カルテット)

TRACKLIST

  • フィード・バック

  • コーン・パイプの踊り

  • アーティストリー・イン・パーカッション

  • ストリングス・ファンタジー

PERSONNEL

BASS / CELLO
Motoharu Yoshizawa (吉沢 元治)

DRUMS / PERCUSSION / COVER ART
Masahiko Togashi (富樫 雅彦)

GUITAR
Masayuki Takayanagi (高柳 昌行)

TENOR SAXOPHONE / CORNPIPE
Mototeru Takagi (高木 元輝)

PRESSING INFORMATION

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Victor – SMJX-10065
LP | 12”, 33⅓ RPM
Japan | 1969
Original Pressing

SYNOPSIS

Recorded for the experimental Jazz Library series on Columbia Japan, We Now Create is a landmark in the history of Japanese free jazz. Led by drummer Masahiko Togashi, the quartet, with Guitar Masayuki Takayanagi (piano), Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass), and Mototeru Takagi (tenor sax), delivers an uncompromising set of raw improvisation and avant-garde energy. Balancing intensity with space, the album captures the urgency of a new generation of Japanese jazz musicians pushing boundaries in the late ’60s. Long prized by collectors, it remains an essential document of the country’s free jazz movement.

GENRE & STYLE

Jazz
Free Jazz

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