Well, due to a series of technical difficulties, this took me an absurdly long time to get off the CD in a lossless form and upload it, but her e we are:
Kaoru Abe - Winter 1972 (PSF 158)
Early solo album. Now, I know a whole album of
very out solo free-jazz alto-sax might sound pretty tough, but this is actually a stunningly beautiful work, and you need to listen to it. Now. There are these sections where he's audibly playing off the echoes of the room that get me every time. Being PSF, it's just a direct rip of the original vinyl issue, as with some of the Fushitsusha releases ETC, but that lends it an interesting quality.
Tracks all untitled.
I will try and get on the Parker at some point this week, but I need to listen through and check whether I was imagining my disc being screwed up first.
FLAC, hence the monster file sizes. In retrospect it would probably have been wiser to torrent it. Ah well.
Enjoy!