Release date: December 25, 2001

• Includes 80-page booklet (in English and Japanese) with profiles of and comments by the 31 individual artists and 3 duos featured
• Packaged in 5 cardboard 2-CD jackets
• Natural paulownia wood box
• Each set numbered
• Limited edition - 800 sets produced: 500 sets (numbers 1 to 500) for sale through online mail order and local distribution; the remaining 300 (numbers 501 to 800) to go to participating musicians, etc.

This year marks the 5th anniversary of the web site launched under the name "Japanese Free Improvisers," later changed to "Improvised Music from Japan." A 10-CD boxed set has been produced to celebrate this milestone. All of the material is new or previously unissued.

Below is a list of the featured artists.

Tetuzi Akiyama Big Picture Haco Shoji Hano Junji Hirose Ryoji Hojito Yoshimitsu Ichiraku Kazuo Imai Incapacitants Atsuhiro Ito Utah Kawasaki Kyoko Kuroda

Brett Larner Sachiko M Toshimaru Nakamura Takehito Nakazato Mitsuru Nasuno Masahiko Okura Aki Onda Yasuhiro Otani Yoshihide Otomo Tetsu Saitoh Michihiro Sato

Skist Taku Sugimoto Tamaru Yumiko Tanaka Tsuguto Tsunoda Kazuhisa Uchihashi Michiyo Yagi Seiichi Yamamoto Tetsuro Yasunaga Ami Yoshida Yasuhiro Yoshigaki

Track list

Improvised Music from Japan home page