Ayako Shinozaki - Music Now for Harp [LP]

Wewantsounds

£34.18

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: WWSLP76
Barcode: 3700604748113
Release Date: 25 Aug 2023
Genre: Classical / Avant Garde

01: Stanza II (feat. Toru Takemitsu) - Ayako Shinozaki
02: Poem of Rin (feat. Katsuhiro Tsubono) - Ayako Shinozaki
03: Heterodyne (feat. Takehisa Kosugi) - Ayako Shinozaki

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the first international reissue of Ayako Shinozaki's hard to find LP "Music Now For Harp" released in 1974 by Nippon Columbia. The LP was released on the label's cult "Master Sonic" series and features Shinozaki's harp soundscape on works by renowned composer Toru Takemitsu and Katsuhiro Tsubono. The highlight of the album is the spaced-out, ethereal 25-min ambient epic 'Heterodyne' featuring cult musician Takehisa Kosugi (Taj Mahal Travellers, Group Ongaku) on electric violin and sound waves. The album has been newly remastered by Nippon Columbia and is reissued here with its original artwork designed by legendary Japanese graphic designer Kohei Sugiura. It includes a 2 page insert with new liner notes by Alan Cummings.