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Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit

Axis: Another Revolvable Thing, Vol. 2

(doubtmusic, dmrp-111) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Fragment I: Gradually Projection (19:46)
  2. Fragment IV: Mass Projection (12:36)
  3. Fragment V: Mass Projection (13:17)

All compositions by Masayuki Takayanagi

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit
Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Kenji Mori: reeds
Nobuyoshi Ino: bass, cello
Hiroshi Yamazaki: percussion

Recorded live at Yasuda Seimei Hall, Tokyo, September 5, 1975
Produced by Makoto Shiraishi
Art direction by Takayasu Horiguchi
Photo by Tokuaki Takimoto
Remastered by Tsutomu Suto
Reissue design by Akira Sasaki
Includes liner notes by Teruto Soejima in Japanese and English (translation by Cathy Fishman)

Released in August 2006
Originally released in 1976 as an LP on Offbeat Records (ORLP-1009)