Improvised Music from Japan

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

• Bilingual English-Japanese
• 192 pages; 21cm (H) x 15cm (W)
• 2 CDs included (all but one track previously unreleased)

• Spring Road 2003
  • Spring Road 2003--Europe and North America (Tetsu Saito)
  • Pile of Ashes / Spring Road 2003--Japan (Michel Doneda)
  • Exploring Infinite Possibilities--Kazue Sawai and the Koto (Kazue Yokoi)
  • Kazuo Imai Interview (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
• Forget Aki Onda (Ed Baxter)
• Yumiko Tanaka Interview (Toyoki Okajima)
• Resonating out of Rhythm and Texture--A Dialog with Samm Bennett about His New Solo Album Secrets of Teaching Yourself Music (Shigenori Noda)
• Tetuzi Akiyama Interview (Toshimaru Nakamura)
• Studio Mescalina Diary 2001-2003 (Haco)
• Kazuhisa Uchihashi Interview (Yoshiyuki Suzuki)
• From ria to ralia (Ami Yoshida)
• Masahiko Okura Interview (Taku Unami)
• Sachiko M Interview--About the Solo Concert Series Bar Sachiko (Atsuhiro Ito)
• Erstwhile 2004 (Yuko Zama)
• View Masters--A Report on Events in 2003 (H.V.M.)
• Uncomfortable Orchestra--LMC Festival, London, September 2003 (Otomo Yoshihide)
• Taku Sugimoto Interview (Yoshio Otani)
• Luc Ferrari Japan Tour 2003--A Report (Haruyuki Suzuki)
• Seoul Meeting
  • Introduction (Otomo Yoshihide)
  • Kang Tae Hwan Interview (Otomo Yoshihide) (Interpreter: Moon Cheol)
  • Park Je Chun, Mi Yeon, Otomo Yoshihide--A Tripartite Talk (Interpreter: Moon Cheol)
  
  
  
• CD Reviews
• Japanese pages

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

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