MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI AND NEW DIRECTION UNIT - ECLIPSE Vinyl LP Bon Iver as well as that special

as well as that special kind of glorious delirium that comes from taking everything life can throw at you and still walking away triumphant

Ranaldo and Moore’s work for the next decade

Talib Kweli and more

That was the headspace he was in when he began to map out the syncopated drums and staccato arpeggiation of Bigger Than Life

Lay tracked vocals and guitar at Jarvis Tavinere of Woods’s studio

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI AND NEW DIRECTION UNIT - ECLIPSE Vinyl LP Bon Iver as well as that specialMasayuki Takayanagi was one of the truly iconoclastic musicians to emerge from Japan, or anywhere else, in the 20th Century. Though he won acclaim in the 1950s and 60s as a master of the electric guitar and jazz improvisation, Takayanagi was a restless spirit, deeply engaged with the era's new movements in contemporary art, music, literature and philosophy. His work, beginning in the late 1960s placed him on the leading edge of these developments; he