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Soemon

Soemon

(Sparkling Beatnik Records, SBR0022) (US) (CD)

  1. Oto Kirara (Tadao Sawai) (11:02)
  2. Kiri no Mon - The Gate in the Mist (Nobuhiro Makita) (8:53)
  3. Uruma (Tadao Sawai) (13:57)
  4. Honky-Tonk (Hideaki Kuribayashi) (9:22)
  5. Spike Initiating Zone (Brett Larner) (7:07)
  6. Yume no Wa (Hikaru Sawai) (7:43)

Soemon (koto ensemble)
Kaori Iguchi, Maki Isogai, Shin Ichikawa, Ai Kajigano, Curt Patterson, Naoko Kikuchi, Takako Noguchi, , Chika Hayashi, Yuko Fukuda, Brett Larner, Yuki Yasuda, and Azumi Yamano

Recorded live at Theater Tram in Tokyo, January 1999 (3)
Recorded at Studio Es in Tokyo, June-July 2000 (1-2, 4-6)
Engineered by Hiroshi Ogawa
Design: Yasu Yamada
Additional artwork: Jeff Mueler
Produced by Phil James
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English by Hideaki Kuribayashi

Released 2001