Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden

Avantgarde Vinyl Series #3 (1LP) + Hi-Res Audio Download

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Release date: 1 May 2026

Album #3 in the brand new vinyl series featuring pioneering recordings from the musical avant-garde.

Tōru Takemitsu’s Quatrain and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden 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 ma—the space between things—through fluid shifts of timbre and atmosphere. He likened the work to an emaki, a picture scroll unfolding scene by scene, where each musical idea is independent yet interwoven.

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, inspired by a dream, expands these ideas into a circular, non-linear sound world. Its “flock” motif, first heard in the oboe, descends into a shimmering harmonic field created by the strings—the “garden.” Here, Takemitsu’s sense of time and space becomes immersive and cyclical rather than progressive.

Vinyl mixed & cut from the original analogue 1 inch 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

Limited and numbered edition, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector’s sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180g vinyl.

Tracklisting:
Side 1
1. Takemitsu: Quatrain

Side 2
1. Takemitsu: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden