In Case of Fire Take the Stairs

Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-503
Released in December 2002
Purchase price in Japan: 2,000 yen (tax not included)
(For purchase outside of Japan, prices vary.)

• Recorded live directly onto DAT, at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, on March 17, 2002
• Packaged in a cardboard jacket
• CD and jacket design by Masae Tanabe
• Produced by Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann and Sachiko M

1. Tracks 1-2 (36:00)
2. Tracks 3-5 (27:28)
3. Track 6 (4:27)
   
   mp3 excerpt: track 1
   mp3 excerpt: track 3
   mp3 excerpt: track 6

Although I and II include two and three tracks, respectively, each is a single work. They are divided into multiple tracks for listeners' convenience.

All music by Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann and Sachiko M

Kaffe Matthews (tracks 2-6): laptop
Andrea Neumann (tracks 1, 3-6): inside piano
Sachiko M (tracks 1, 5, 6): sinewaves, contact microphones

Kaffe Matthews created her sound by live-sampling and processing her own and the other musicians' sounds as they played.

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