Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden (Avantgarde Series) LP TSOV-00193 the restlessly creative bassist-composer-producer Lorenzo

the restlessly creative bassist-composer-producer Lorenzo Feliciati has realized his most ambitious and personal project to date in Koi

Greg Readling

'SO much feeling went into this record

That's What I Am Not was a huge hit

Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden (Avantgarde Series) LP TSOV-00193 the restlessly creative bassist-composer-producer LorenzoTru Takemitsus Quatrain (1975) and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977) exemplify his synthesis of Western avant garde techniques and Japanese aesthetics. In Quatrain, scored for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and orchestra, Takemitsu evokes the Japanese concept of mathe space between thingsthrough fluid shifts of timbre and atmosphere. He likened the work to an emaki, a picture scroll unfolding scene by scene, where each musical idea