Daguri

by Kohske Mine Quintet

Daguri cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: Victor
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 41:27
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A towering achievement in Japanese free jazz, this live recording captures saxophonist Kohske Mine's quintet at the height of their ferocious, spiritually intense improvisational powers. The extended, highly demanding compositions move relentlessly from dense, modal post-bop structures into blistering, atonal free blowouts, driven by an exceptional, polyrhythmic rhythm section. The album remains a definitive, deeply respected document of the incredibly vibrant 1970s Tokyo avant-garde scene.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, progressive, technical, complex, improvisation, experimental, avant-garde, improvised, suite

Tracklist

  1. Thirsty = ァースティ (10:44)
  2. Self-Contradiction = γ‚»γƒ«γƒ•γƒ»γ‚³γƒ³γƒˆγƒ©γƒ‡γ‚£γ‚―γ‚·γƒ§γƒ³ (4:29)
  3. Daguri = ダグγƒͺ (6:19)
  4. Expectation = γ‚¨γ‚―γ‚Ήγƒšγ‚―γƒ†γ‚€γ‚·γƒ§γƒ³ (11:54)
  5. Spin Drift = スピン・ドγƒͺγƒ•γƒˆ (8:01)

Credits

  • Kosuke Mine Quintet - primary artist
  • Kohsuke Mine - primary artist, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Hideaki Mochizuki - bass
  • Hiroshi Murakami - drums
  • Fumio Itabashi - piano
  • Hideo Miyata - tenor saxophone

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