Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kaoru Abe

CD Box

(Youth Inc., YOUTH-165) (Japan) (4-CD set)


Disc 1: Kaoru Abe/Masayuki Takayanagi Duo

  1. (41:27)

Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone, bass clarinet, shakuhachi with reed

Recorded live at Station '70, Shibuya, Tokyo, July 9, 1970

The performance on this disc is incomplete; the last seven and a half minutes are cut. The entire performance is included in the original release of 2001 on Diw Records.

Disc 2: Kaoru Abe/Masayuki Takayanagi Duo

  1. (41:46)

Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone, shakuhachi with reed

Recorded live at Station '70, Shibuya, Tokyo, July 9, 1970

This disc contains one track with two performances. The second performance is incomplete; the last 10 minutes are cut. The entire performance is included in the original release of 2001 on Diw Records (which has two tracks).

Disc 3: Kaoru Abe Solo

  1. (3:34)
  2. (25:04)
  3. (21:37)

Recorded in 1973
Performance location unknown

Disc 4: Kaoru Abe Duo

  1. (8:55)
  2. (31:24)
  3. (1:55)
  4. (16:20)
  5. (8:43)

Name of the drummer playing with Kaoru Abe, and performance date and location, unknown
On tracks 4 and 5, the sounds of other musicians besides Kaoru Abe and the drummer can be heard.


Photo by Yuji Itsumi

Released in May 2012
Disc 1 originally released in 2001 as a CD on Diw Records (DIW-425) with the title Gradually Projection
Disc 2 originally released in 2001 as a CD on Diw Records (DIW-424) with the title Mass Projection
Disc 3 track 3 originally released in January 2012 on Kaoru Abe's 7-CD set CD Box 1970-1973 on Youth Inc. (YOUTH-142)
Disc 3 tracks 1 and 2, and Disc 4, previously unreleased