Ayuo Takahashi

Outside Society (eBook, ePUB)

People Without a Country

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Produktbeschreibung

A musician who spent his youth in New York City in the hot late 60s, made his debut in Tokyo in the 80s, and since then has been tirelessly active and progressive, and continues to struggle outside the society of Japan. (Outside Society)

Appearing in the book: Yokoo Tadanori, Shuji Terayama, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kishin Shinoyama, Seiji Ozawa, Yukio Mishima, Miles Davis, Andy Warhol, Yuji Takahashi, Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bill Bruford, Keiji Haino, Mutsuro Takahashi, John Zorn, Peter Hammill, Maddy Prior, Dave Mattacks, Horace Silver, John Cage, Terry Riley, Kazue Sawai, Hiromi Ohta, EPO, John Cale...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040347287
• Artikelnr.: 74279662

Autorenporträt

Ayuo Takahashi is a musician (songwriter, lyricist, composer, vocalist, and guitarist) with over 20 albums released in Japan and the United States. Ayuo grew up in New York during the 1960s, interacting with many cultural figures while still a child including Seiji Ozawa, Toru Takemitsu, Yokoo Tadanori, Hiroshi Teshigahara, John Cage, and others. He has recordings with Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Zorn, and Peter Hammill, among others, released on JVC, Tzadik, MIDI, Epic-Sony, and other labels. He continues to create works based on medieval mythology and contemporary literature. In recent years, Ayuo's work has increasingly included music theater and chamber music mixed with dance and theatrical elements. He is also a journalist writing about music, films, and culture for magazines in Japan. In 2020, the compilation album "Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient Music," which includes Ayuo's composition "Nagareru," was nominated for a U.S. Grammy Award. His recent works are available at ayuo.bandcamp.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. 1. My first memory
Age 3, plane trip to Berlin
Kennedy Assassination
New York. 2. The Beatles
Rhythm and sound. 3. New York in the late 1960s
My mother's artist friends (Yokoo Tadanori, Shuji Terayama, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Kishin Shinoyama, Mutsuo Takahashi, etc.)
The Filmore East
Electric Circus
Terry Riley
John Cage and Marcel Duchamp
Living Theater
Horace Silver
Joan Gilberto
Thelonius Monk
Muddy Waters. 4. Started learning guitar
1968: The year of changes
My parents' divorce
Psychedelic rock
Started writing poetry
Open-tuning guitar. 5. My mother's marriage to Mansour Malekpour
Jethro Tull
Ten Years After
Alice Cooper
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Pink Floyd
Fairport Convention
Earth, Wind, and Fire
Steely Dan
The Who and more. 6. Influences from Peter Gabriel's performances. 7. David, the actor
Experimental films
The Strawbs. 8. The junior high school I attended
Studying medieval European history
Teaching methods that make the students think for themselves
The Italian school in my neighborhood. 9. The disintegration of my family life
Suddenly leaving New York City in 1975. 10. Arrival in Tokyo
Father, Yuji Takahashi
Stepmother, Karen
Enrollment in Yokohama International School. 11. My father's recordings
Left-wing political activists began to visit our residence
Takehisa Kosugi
Steve Lacy
Aquirax Aida
Meeting Ryuichi Sakamoto. 12. Going to Yokohama International High School
Friends
Cannabis
LSD
"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis. 13. Father forces me to drop out from high school for political reasons
Separated from father
The music activities in Tokyo in the late 1970s
Keiji Haino
Kichijoji Minor
Live performances at Seibu Auditorium, Kyoto University
Aunt Sally. 14. Performances with Junichi Kawahara, Chie Mukai, Takeo Suzuki, Takuya Nishimura and others in the early 1980s
Kansai tour. 15. 1983, Record debut is decided
First solo album, Carmina
Interviews where communication is not established
Morgan Fisher
Moonriders. 16. 1984, signing with MIDI records. 17. Silent Film album
The misunderstood promotion
Memory Theatre album. 18. Departure to record in the UK in the summer of 1986
Stopover in New York City
John Zorn
Arrival in London
AMM
David Lord
Fairport Convention
Photographer Richard Haughton
Steeleye Span and Renaissance in concert
Recordings at Crescent Studios
Dave Mattacks
Maddy Prior
Peter Knight. 19. Meeting Peter Hammill
Visit to Peter Hammill's house
Interview with Peter Hammill. 20. Completion of the album, Nova Carmina
Seeing Steve Marriott live. 21. Prolific creation in neurotic states. 22. 1987, Producing Kazue Sawai's album, Eye to Eye
David Lord
Hiromi Ota
Peter Hammill
Guy Evans
Sara Jane Morris
James Warren. 23. The Hungerford massacre
J. G. Ballard. 24. From 1990 to now. Part II. Rock concerts I saw before and after 1970. The Kinks. About Yes. Bill Bruford interview. I met Andy Warhol when I was in the fifth grade. The school I went to in New York City. Winter 1983. End of Earth. Part III. I don't understand the Japanese. Why I don't understand the Japanese. Part IV. Tokyo and my mother in the 1950s and early 1960s. Questions of identity in Hiroshi Teshigahara's films and Kobo Abe's novels. Toru Takemitsu's ear for sound. What is psychedelic? Yokoo Tadanori, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and the psychedelic music scene. Taj Mahal Travellers and Takehisa Kosugi. John Cale Interview (from 2001): A musical journey from Xenakis, La Monte Young, Velvet Underground, and back to his roots in Wales. Yukio Mishima. The experience of death. Persian classical music and my stepfather, Mansour. Part V. Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and John Cage. Music and mythology. Folk society. About rhythm. The rhythm of the words we speak affects the rhythmic sense of the person who speaks them. The difference between English and Japanese lyrics. Classical music's influence in Rock music. Influences from Joni Mitchell and my mono opera Izutsu. Yokoo Tadanori: The hometown is the source of creation. Part VI. Outside Society: People Without a Country-The poem. Discography. About the Author.