Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975 [LP] jazz against a backdrop of deep

against a backdrop of deep roots in the earth

Music you’ll need to take out your furniture before listening

The Shapiros may only have existed for a few weeks

Sholto Dobie was born in Edinburgh and lives in Vilnius

A wildly original sound vision is put forward by this fairly constant crew of ad hoc music makers (Jemima Aherne

Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi – Improvisation Sep. 1975 [LP] jazz against a backdrop of deep"Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta and Takehisa Kosugi originally got together in the summer of 1975 for an open air concert in Sapporo. The concert felt like a great success but was unfortunately not recorded. As the desire arose to record together, they managed to arrange a studio session in the NHK Studio in Tokyo, with presence of sound engineers. What was supposed to be a soundcheck for this session became the session itself: a haunting 50 minute