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This is an album released in 1969 by the great Japanese drummer/percussionist Masahiko Togashi, who continued to perform and create his own unique playing style despite being paralyzed from the waist down due to a spinal cord injury. Duo with saxophonist Motoeru Takagi, who laid the foundation of early free jazz in Japan with Togashi through his collaborations with Motoharu Yoshizawa, Masayuki Takayanagi, and others.

Music from the movie “Abbreviated Serial Killer”. In this soundtrack Masahiko Togashi and Motoki Takagi challenged “the limit of improvisational performance”. The film was directed by Masao Adachi. This is a so-called “landscape film” about Norio Nagayama, a serial killer. Masahiko Togashi, who was asked to compose the music, recorded three songs as a duo with Motoki Takagi. Togashi said, “I thought it was strange to compose the human heart,” and the recording was done with “total improvisation.”