Improvised Music from Japan

Improvised Music from Japan 2004

OUT DECEMBER 5, 2004

(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-304/5)
Purchase price in Japan: 2,800 yen (2,940 yen with tax)
(Outside Japan, prices vary.)


Contents


Track list of attached CDs

Disc 1

  1. Four Color - ae (6:36)
    Keiichi Sugimoto: guitar
    Recorded and mixed by Keiichi Sugimoto
    First released on Air Curtain (12k, 12K1029); mastered separately for this CD

  2. Masahiko Okura - Entasi (5:32)
    Masahiko Okura: alto saxophone
    Recorded and mixed by Masae Ito at Tanker, Tokyo, February 2004

  3. Shuichi Chino - Envelope (4:34)
    Shuichi Chino: computer
    Recorded live at Osaka Harbor Red Brick Warehouse, Osaka, June 2003
    Live engineers: Takashi Mabuchi and Satoshi Kudo
    Executive producer: Haco/View Masters

  4. Samm Bennett - Bang-up Debonair Skeleton (3:21)
  5. Samm Bennett - Repairs (2:36)
  6. Samm Bennett - Shimmy-she-bobble (2:40)
    Published by Directional Music (BMI)
    Samm Bennett: WaveDrum, electronics, vibrators, contact microphones
    Recorded live in Tokyo, November and December, 2003

  7. Tetuzi Akiyama/Martin Ng - Soul Delay (6:10)
    Tetuzi Akiyama: acoustic guitar
    Martin Ng: turntable
    Recorded by Chris Townend at BJB Studios, Sydney, July 24, 2002

  8. Yumiko Tanaka (6:35)
    Yumiko Tanaka: futozao shamisen
    Recorded by Yumiko Tanaka in her four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room in Yashiro, Hyogo prefecture, 2003

  9. Han Bennink/Kazuo Imai (5:21)
    Han Bennink: drums
    Kazuo Imai: electric guitar
    Recorded by Naoaki Kose at Earth Studio, Tokyo, May 27, 2002
    Mixed by Naoaki Kose at Earth Studio, 2003

  10. Une Chance pour l'Ombre (11:18)
    Michel Doneda: soprano saxophone
    Tetsu Saitoh: contrabass
    Kazue Sawai: koto
    Kazuo Imai: guitar
    Le Quan Ninh: percussion
    Recorded live by Alain Michon (MDLC) in Lorgues, France, May 28, 2003

Disc 2

  1. Optrum - Volcanic Kant (0:24)
  2. Optrum - Godzilla vs. Ayaya (0:55)
  3. Optrum - New Motor Head Banging & DC/DC (1:18)
  4. Optrum - 22 Century Gewalt Woman (2:49)
  5. Optrum - Improvised Music from Hell (0:23)
    Yoichiro Shin: drums
    Atsuhiro Ito: optron

  6. Naoaki Miyamoto - Akatsuki ni (4:56)

  7. Sachiko M/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otomo Yoshihide (20:04)
    Recorded live by Choi Jeong Hoon at Buam Art Hall, Seoul, September 19, 2003

  8. Mi Yeon (6:14)
    Mi Yeon: piano

  9. Park Je Chun - For Togashi Masahiko (8:54)
    Park Je Chun: percussion

  10. Kang Tae Hwan (7:42)
    Kang Tae Hwan: alto saxophone

Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura, April 9, 2004


Last updated: November 18, 2004

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