“Most Americans know Nobukazu Takemura by *Scope*, his first album for Thrill Jockey. As high as the highs on that record were (I've written before about how emotionally engaging I find "Kepler"), it offered only a narrow slice of Takemura's musical personality. The precise and abstract line drawings on the cover in part reflected the album's content. "Taw," for example, resonates mainly as an exam”
