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Strange Emotion

(All Access, AACD-005) (CD) / (All Access, AALP-003 (LP)

  1. Yellow Fever: Ancient and Modern (Onda)
  2. Banana: Joy Mix (Onda, D-Zine)
  3. Strange Emotion (Onda, Kawashima)
  4. Deciding not to Decide (Onda)
  5. Knife (Onda, Miki, Kawashima)
  6. Never Personal (Onda, Otomo)
  7. Yellow Fever: Labyrinth of the Night (Onda)
Aki Onda (1-4, 6, 7): samples, programming
Hoppy Kamiyama: synthesizer (1,2, 4, 7), samples (1, 2, 4, 7), gram-pot (1, 2, 4, 7), neus-violin (2)
Tsuneo Imahori: guitar (1, 2, 4, 7)
Mecken: bass (1, 4, 5, 7)
Mono: additional synthesizer (1, 7)
Greg Osby: sax (1, 4, 7)
D-Zine: rap (2, 7)
Jyoji Sawada (3): double bass, string arrangement
Yoichi Okabe: percussion (3, 5)
Miho Kudo: violin (3)
Hiroko Yanagawa: violin (3)
Ryoko Mochizuki: viola (3)
Naoya Mochizuki: cello (3)
Hubert Joignant: narration (3)
Vie Vie: voice (3)
Yutaka Ohara: bamboo horn (4)
Takahiro Hosoki: bass (5)
Kazutoki Umezu: sax (5)
Miki: vocal (5)
Yoshihide Otomo: guitar, turntables (6)
Aya: voice (6)

Arranged by Onda and Kamiyama (1, 7), Kamiyama and Imahori (2), Sawada and Onda (3), Onda (4, 5), and Onda and Otomo (6)
Texts (6) sampled from Atsushi Sasaki's writing
Track 7 included only on LP

Recorded by Takehiko Kamada
Addtional recording by Joe Marciano, and Aki Onda
Recorded at Kitchen Studio and GOK Sound in Tokyo, and Systems Two in New York
Mixed by Takehiko Kamada (1, 3-5, 7) and Yoshiaki Kondo (2, 6)
Mixed at Wonder Station and GOK Sound
Mastered by Akihiko Takenaka at Heartbeat
Art direction: Katsuhiko Kimura
Photography: Nan Goldin
Produced by Aki Onda

Released 1995