Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Aki Onda

Precious Moments

(Softl Music, SOM 102) (Germany) (CD)

left: 1st printing / right: 2nd printing


  1. Toward a Place in the Sun (6:35)
  2. The Blank Space (1:00)
  3. Floating Souls (2:59)
  4. Caress (2:50)
  5. Someplace (5:52)
  6. To and Fro, Entangling (3:05)
  7. Orange (4:47)
  8. Fish Don't Know It's Raining (7:42)
  9. Ravage (2:47)
  10. Morning, June 24 (1:19)
  11. Gazing into the Eyes, Then Closing the Eyes (3:06)

All music by Aki Onda, except track 1, by Aki Onda and Kazutoki Umezu

Aki Onda: cassette recorder, sampler, programming
Sakana Hosomi: electronics
Kazutoki Umezu: clarinet, slide whistle
Jyoji Sawada: acoustic guitar, kalimba
Momo: synthesizers

Produced by Aki Onda
Recorded by Aki Onda and Eiichi Tanaka at The Kitchen, Tokyo
Mixed by ZAK at Storobo, Tokyo
Jacket design by Frieda Luczak

Released in 2001