Group Ongaku album: Music of Group Ongaku (1960 and 1961).

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ループ・音楽 Group Ongaku ("Music Group") was a collective exploring musical improvisation from 1958 through 1962. It was originally an improvisational duo between Skukou Mzuno and Takehisa Kosugi, who both were studying music at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Later, between 1959 and 1960, the group expanded to include Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone (both participants in Fluxus, along with Kosugi), Mikio Tojuma, Genichi Tsuge, and Yumiko Tanno.

Thanks to Kiyotoshi Takashima, Masahiro Inoue, Atsuo Yamamoto, Wataru Suzuki, The Asahi Seihan Printing C. Ltd. and Documentation Center of Modern Japanese Music. P 1996 HEAR sound art library C HEAR sound art library, Group ONGAKU manufactured in USA. Comes with 6-panel booklet.

Music of Group Ongaku. Metaplasm 9-15 Part 2 (1961). blue highlight denotes track pick.

Music Of Group Ongaku is a jazz related improv/composition music album recording by SHUKO MIZUNO released in 1996 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette.

Group ONGAKU, founded mainly by students at Tokyo National University of Fine Art & Music, was the 1st collective musical improvisation group. The group began their activities in 1958, & from the naming of the group in 1960 onward continued until somewhere around 1962. They attempted to create acoustics corresponding to actual time & space by means of collective improvisation.

group ongaku – music of group ongaku (album, 1996). Once students of Tokyo’s National University of Fine Arts & Music, the six members of Group Ongaku fused a plethora of otherworldly and unexpected sounds into a series of radical compositions. This excerpt is part of a 26 minute explosion of hushes, swirling chimes, prepared piano, playful sax and the rhythmic clattering of what I can only identify as household objects.

In the liner notes, Doran points out that ambient music in Japan started, much as it did elsewhere, with composers who became fixated on the work of Erik Satie, John Cage, and, later, Brian Eno, particularly their ideas about background, modes of attention, authorship, and functionality.

This marks the group's first album since "come Here" was released about four years ago in June of 2014. In addition to their latest single "Ask Yourself," the album will include 16 new songs. Well ahead of this date, the group have chosen to upload the music video for the release’s lead track Moondrop to their label’s Youtube channel. aint - Moondrop (MV).