Ensemble Cathode

Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-502
Released in July 2002
Purchase price in Japan: 2,000 yen (tax not included)
(For purchase outside of Japan, prices vary.)

• All composed by Otomo Yoshihide
• Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound in Tokyo, May-July 2001
• Additional recording by Otomo Yoshihide at A-102 studio and M-101 studio in Tokyo, August 2001 and March 2002
• Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura in May 2002
• Produced by Otomo Yoshihide
• Packaged in a cardboard jacket
• CD and jacket design by Masae Tanabe
• Includes liner notes in Japanese and English by Otomo Yoshihide

1. Cathode #4 (20:57)
   
   Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
   Tetuzi Akiyama: turntable without records, contact microphones
   Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: waterphone
   Kumiko Takara: snare drum
   Masahiro Uemura: bells
   Ami Yoshida: voice
   Itoken: crotales
   Mari Furuta: snare drum
   Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: cymbal with bow
   Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
   Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto
   
   
2. Cathode #5 (14:19)
   
   Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto
   Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
   Andrea Neumann: inside piano
   Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
   Otomo Yoshihide: turntable
   
   
3. Cathode #3 (Variation of Modulation #1) (22:15)
   
   Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
   Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: percussion
   Kumiko Takara: vibraphone, percussion
   Ko Ishikawa: sho
   Ami Yoshida: voice
   Mari Furuta: crotales, percussion
   Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: percussion with bow
   Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
   Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto
   
   mp3 excerpt: track 1

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