Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit* – April Is The Cruellest Month

New Direction Unit - April Is The Cruellest Month album cover

Label:	April Disk – AP-1
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	Japan
Released:	1991
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Free Improvisation

Tracklist

1	We Have Existed	10:29
2	What Have We Given?	6:50
3	My Friend, Blood Shaking My Heart	19:46
4	We Have Existed [Alternate Take]	10:10

Credits

Alto Saxophone, Flute, Bass Clarinet – Kengi Mori*
Artwork – Tamotsu Kurosaki
Bass, Cello – Nobuyoshi Ino
Composed By [Outer Frames & Forms] – Masayuki Takayanagi
Engineer – Kunio Arai
Guitar – Masayuki Takayanagi
Liner Notes – Teruto Soejima
Percussion – Hiroshi Yamazaki
Photography By [Cover] – Tatsuo Minami
Producer, Liner Notes – Kunio Ohashi
Reissue Producer – Yasunori Saito
Remix – Yukio Kojima

Notes

Recorded April 30 and May 11, 1975 at Yamaha Music Foundation.
Originally due to be released on the ESP label (artwork had already been created), but the label collapsed before it came out.
Track 4 is a bonus CD track, not scheduled to appear on the original LP.

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	April Is The Cruellest Month (CD, Album, Reissue, CDr, Limited Edition)	Jinya Disc, Jinya Disc	B-12, JDR-002	Japan	2007
New Submission	April Is The Cruellest Month (CD, Album, Reissue)	Jinya Disc	B-12	Japan	2007
Recently Edited	April Is The Cruellest Month (LP, Album, Reissue)	Blank Forms Editions	BF-008	US	2019
New Submission	April Is The Cruellest Month (CD, Album, Reissue)	Blank Forms Editions	BF-008	US	2019