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Label: La Musica Records
Liner notes:A work of contemporary music performed in the rock idiom by Japanese underground rock legend, Asahito Nanjyo. Nanjyo is active in a wide variety of groups, but Group Musica exists in order to pursue a more universal musical vibration.
Group Musica is an ensemble that pursues the free use of every type of Western and Eastern musical instrument, is propelled by the vibrations of very subtle rhythms, and that has internalized the methodology of minimalism.
The concept behind this album is transform kagura, an ancient form of Japanese music and dance that was performd for the gods, into the metaphysics of musical vibration. The concept of kagura allows Group Musica to create a unique work that is an experimental symphonic composition, which nonetheless has many rich improvisatory elements.
Many different musicians from various genres participate in Group Musica, but their contributions are filtered through Nanjyo's musical sense and thus altered, fused and structured. It is for this reason that they remain anonymous-Group. Musica exists as a total entity.