''Akisakila'' is a

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Cecil Taylor Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in comple ...

recorded at Koseinenkin Dai-Hall, in Tokyo in May 1973 and originally released on the Japanese Trio label as a double LP. It features a performance by Taylor with

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and

Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...

Reception

The

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review by Thom Jurek states "The early '70s was Taylor's most articulate period of his method of propelling dynamic energy forth into conical spirals of harmonic mystery and danger. While his music had dispensed with the notions of form and interval long before this, the simultaneous explosion of group energy reached its first zenith during this period... This date, though recorded a decade later, is a fine complement to '' Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come''". Saxophonist

Henry Kuntz Henry Kuntz is a free jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. In 1979 he founded Hummingbird Records and Tapes, which released, among other things, live recordings of his free jazz trio, Trio Opeye. Cadence Magazine described his multitrack ...

wrote: "Taylor's music has less to do with the presentation of a particular piece of music (though there are certainly identifiable compositional interests) than it does with the total re-creation/transformation of the sound environment of the listener... The length of Taylor's pieces, their 'intensity,' is almost entirely directed toward breaking through the listener's defenses, to completely destroying, to the extent possible, the split between audience-performer. For as long as the music exists as something 'out there,' something able to be objectified, so one concentrates on it rather than simply experiencing it. The difference, it seems to me, is crucial. The former attitude approaches the music as a western linear 'art' form (able to be codified, commoditized, and finally commercialised) whereas the latter 'understands' and simply accepts the music as the organic improvisational sound ritual which it actually is... The music envelops, but does not overwhelm, the listener; it draws the listener into it, yet leaves space (even in its density) for the listener to exist within it. One may then enter into the musical expression rather than simply witness its realization."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Cecil Taylor.'' # "Bulu Akisakira Kutala, Part 1" – 40:42 # "Bulu Akisakira Kutala, Part 2" – 40:59 #* Recorded in Tokyo, May 22, 1973

Personnel

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References

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