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Yuji Takahashi

Distant Voices/Yuji Takahashi + Masahiko Sato

(Denon/Columbia Music Entertainment, COCQ-84174) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Distant Voices (20:39)
  2. Flying Off (10:15)
  3. Midsummer Blues (7:18)
  4. Samarkand (18:45)
  5. Taklamakan (10:40)
  6. Lob Nor (8:54)

Tracks 1-3
Steve Lacy: soprano sax, timpani, etc.
Yuji Takahashi: piano, celesta, etc.
Takehisa Kosugi: violin, voice, toy flute, percussion, etc.

Tracks 4-6
Yuji Takahashi: piano, prepared piano, EMS Synthi-AKS
Masahiko Sato: piano, Minimoog, Mini-Korg, Fender Rhodes

Tracks 1-3 recorded by Kaoru Iida at Columbia Studio No. 1, Tokyo, June 24, 1975
Tracks 4-6 recorded by Kaoru Iida at Columbia Studio, Tokyo, July 3-5, 1974
Remixed by Kaoru Iida, September 30, 1975 (1-3) and August 5, 1974 (4-6)
Produced by Yoshiharu Kawaguchi and Tsutomu Ueno
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Ryuji Akashi, Yuji Takahashi, and Masahiko Sato

Released in June 2006
Originally released on Nippon Columbia as the LP Distant Voices in 1976 (1-3) and as the LP Yuji Takahashi + Masahiko Sato in 1974 (4-6)