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Masayuki Takayanagi and New Directions

Independence: Tread on Sure Ground

(Tiliqua Records, TILAR-5008) (Japan) (CD)

  1. The Galactic System (11:27)
  2. Sick, Sick, Sickness, My Aunt (1:13)
  3. Study No. 3 Up and Down (5:57)
  4. Herdsman's Pipe of Spain (6:46)
  5. Deepnight, Swamp (1:24)
  6. Piranha (13:21)

    Bonus track

  7. Mass Projection (4:52)

All music and arrangements by Masayuki Takayanagi

Masayuki Takayanagi and New Directions
Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Motoharu Yoshizawa: bass, cello, percussion, folk pipe, voice
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi: drums, percussion

Recorded at Teichiku Kaikan First Studio, Tokyo, September 18, 1969 (1-6) and February 2, 1970 (7)
Original jacket design by Nobuhiko Yabuki
Degitally remastered from the original master tapes
Jacket design preparation and art direction by Nekoneko Shokai
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Masahiko Yu and in English by Alan Cummings

Released in March 2007
Originally released in 1970 as an LP on Teichiku, without the bonus track, which was originally released in 1970 on the omnibus LP Guitar Workshop on Union/Teichiku