1978,
Yugoslavia
00:44:34;
61M;
192JS;
377;
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Wake Up
- 4:52
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Synthesis
- 5:01
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Merging Of Sunlight Into The..
- 6:42
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Lena
- 4:50
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Miniature
- 2:51
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Second Side Of Me
- 16:39
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Journey To The South
- 3:39
Rika Kayama - liner notes
Tatsuo Kohki - guitar [M8, M9]
Fumihiro Nonomura - liner notes, piano [prepared]
Toshiharu Ohsato - guitar
Kaoru Sato - liner notes, tapes, percussion, drums, tapes, drums, percussion [M8, M9]
Emiko Shimoda - artwork by
Harumi Yamazaki - liner notes, vocals [M8, M9]
Toshiharu Ohsato bot - liner notes
TAKO: The Alternative Kounter-Organization
"Tako" means "octopus”, "kite" and even "bunion" in Japanese. Bald men or men with shaven heads, and red-faced, staggering drunks are also referred to as "tako". It’s a word that appears in a lot of slang and sayings. "Tako" is also the name of the 80s music and performance collective whose performances were like nothing before or since.
The Japanese band Tako, formed at the beginning of the 80s, is a loose group/collective of varying members that belongs to the post-punk alternative music movement. The network of members was all friends and acquaintances of Harumi Yamazaki, ex-member of Gaseneta and Tako’s central member. Tako can be described as a band of guerillas who, over the years, continued to connect, collect, interrupt, and scatter while sending out, into the world, music and sounds that can best be described as transient. Tako also performed without Harumi and so it is as though the band is an anonymous group of mercenaries.
Tako’s second album (12" EP) released in 1984 features a live recording of a performance that was held at the end of 1982. Tako is a band of indeterminate members which only ever played in one-off performances, but this is an album that reveals a unit whose performance was unusually musically coherent. This is an album which effectively conveys the power of Tako’s astounding and legendary live performances, as well as Harumi’s inflammatory, sensational and masochistic presence on stage. Harumi’s mutterings and screams which practically ignore the detached beat confront the audience like an overwhelming groundswell.
(Recorded live at Hosei University Gakkan Hall Nov. 22, 1982.)
This CD version contains 2 additional bonus tracks(M8,M9), (Recorded live at Doshisha University Gakkan Hall May, 1983).
# 責任監修 Supervisor: Harumi Yamazaki 山崎春美
# 音楽監修 Music Supervisor: Kaoru Sato 佐藤薫
# リマスタリング・エンジニア Remastering Engineer: Souichirou Nakamura 中村宗一郎
Originally released in 1984.
Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-127 (IND6682)
