Lacy, Steve/yuji Takahashi/takehisa Kosugi
Distant Voices
High quality reissue of Steve Lacy's rare Japanese collaboration album 'Distant Voices'. 180 gram vinyl and 4 page insert with liner notes by Julian Cowley. On 24th June 1975 Takahashi sat at a grand piano, with celeste and vibraphone alongside him and small bells attached to his hands. Kosugi was equipped with violin, flute, mouth organ, an electronic modulator, porcelain bowls and at times he used his voice. Lacy played soprano saxophone, of course. Now and then he pressed the mouth of the instrument against the skin of a kettle drum. He occasionally fiddled with a transistor radio, and also found uses for a stepladder, a toothbrush and a spinning wheel. This was in no sense a routine musical session. Distant Voices preserves a unique occasion when three singular musicians joined together to embrace the unknown.