Akira Iijima - A Music Book of Combo Rakia's (1990)

This is a acoustic guitar album by Akira Iijima, who has worked with the late Masayuki Takayanagi's "New Direction Unit" as well as with Fred Frith, Tom Colla, and others. Although his guitar playing used to follow the approach of his mentor Masayuki Takayanagi, Akira Iijima's approach on this album is very different, creating a completely new world of his own, This is an artist and a work that deserves, and should be reevaluated. (Originally released in 1990)
I would like to analyze a little about the thoroughness of Iijima's composition. No matter which part of each piece is taken, they all share a single logic, both internally and externally. The work is a meticulous multiple-helix structure, in which the logic brings the parts together into a whole, weaves the whole into the context of a suite, integrates the suites, and finally completes the totality of the album. Such consistency can be calculated to some extent, but Iijima is a musician after all, and he succeeds in creating not only mathematical clarity and cool-headed stylistic beauty, but also a kind of quirky exhilaration.
(Excerpt from the liner notes of the book by Fred Frith, translated from Japanese by Sari Furuya)