Steve Lacy

• LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LP

• 180 GRAM VIRGIN VINYL

This 1976 meeting of three avant-jazz heavyweights gets reissued by Aguirre (La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Terry Riley). Pianist Yuji Takehashi - a player so innovative that Iannis Xenakis composed especially for him - joined forces with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and electric violinist/Fluxus favourite Takehisa Kosugi in a 1975 recording session while Lacy was in Japan. The resulting record employs unusual techniques - at times Takahashi plays with bells attached to his hands while Lacy pressed his saxophone up to the skin of a kettle drum - to create this surreal piece. Distant Voices takes in free jazz, cosmic jazz, post-minimalist composition and serialism.

PERSONNEL:

• Steve Lay - soprano sax, timpani
• Yuji Takahashi - piano, celesta
• Takehisa Kosugi - violin, vocals, percussion

Recorded in tokyo. June 24th, 197

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 01 Distant Voices (20:39 min.)

• SIDE B
• B1. Flying Off (10:15 min)
• B2. Midsummer Blues (7:18 min)