Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Eclipse [LP] Ambient / New Age picking up raw material from

picking up raw material from the ordinary

and Mahler

His work moves freely between richly textural surface noise

Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz

Almost sixty years have passed since this sonic objet d'art was first realized

Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit – Eclipse [LP] Ambient / New Age picking up raw material from"Masayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and '60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature, and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments;