condition (record/cover): NM / NM - Gatefold sleeve. Gaku-No-Michi on Disques Adès confirms Jean-Claude Eloy's orientation toward Asia: the title is Japanese, "the way of music," and the work integrates Eastern instruments and conceptions without falling into postcard syncretism. Eloy lived for extended periods in Japan, studied with masters of shō and shakuhachi, sought not the exotic but the essential.

Again two LPs, again duration that defies domestic listening. Eloy composed for ritual situations rather than bourgeois living rooms. Whoever places this record on the turntable accepts a pact: surrender control of time, allow yourself to be led. Vinyl as meditation vehicle, gramophone as altar. The Adès pressing preserves a practice that Western concert culture could barely accommodate.