PERCUSSIVE UNITY - TOKYO, 30 APRIL 1977

 

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Ryo Obata, percussion

Masayuki Nakai, electric guitar

Yasushi Ozawa, electric bass

Percussive Unity's first public performance at Meiji University's Izumi Campus, Classroom 6, on April 30, 1977. Part of the second concert in the Free Music Revolution series, organized by the Gendai Ongaku Semi.

The other performers were 

Tatsuo Hattori (violin) & Satoshi Ashikawa  (synth) duo

Lunatic Area - Satoshi Sonoda (guitar), Yasushi Ozawa (bass), Seigo Nakane (violin), Mitsuhiro Ueda (drums). A rehearsal track is included on Satoshi Sonoda - Early Works

Tsunemi Kurokawa (vocal, guitar)

The group is often called Percussive Unity Live, because of the cover of their sole LP release, Only Change Is Unchanging, but I think the cover just refers to the LP being a Percussive Unity live recording. In the memorial post about Satoshi Ashikawa on The Story of Chairs and contemporary promo flyers they are just called Percussive Unity.

Ryo Obata also used the names Susumo Obata and O'Bata and kindly gave me a CDr of the recording along with some of his solo CDs.