Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Ned Rothenberg
Masahiko Satoh

Decisive Action

(BAJ Records, BJCD 0024) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Hot at the Core (6:02)
  2. Matchstep (4:21)
  3. Contrapunctus (6:06)
  4. Bilious Anabas (4:27)
  5. Rough and Tumble (4:22)
  6. Interior Gallery (5:37)
  7. Big Ear (3:43)
  8. Strilly Bayhorn (6:19)
  9. Before Seven (3:48)
  10. After Seven (5:39)
  11. Epistrophy (4:33)
  12. Sankoh no Shirabe (9:21)

All music composed by Ned Rothenberg and Masahiko Satoh except (7) and (8), by Ned Rothenberg; (4), by Masahiko Satoh; and (11), by Thelonious Monk and Cootie Williams/arranged by Masahiko Satoh

Ned Rothenberg: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto and soprano saxophones, shakuhachi
Masahiko Satoh: piano

Produced by Masahiko Satoh
Recorded and mixed by Teruhiko Hirokane at Onkio Haus, December 3, 2003 and July 2, 2004
Mastered by Wataru Ishii at Onkio Haus Mastering-A
Art direction and design by Samm Bennett and Haruna Ito
Photos by Samm Bennett
Includes liner notes by Ned Rothenberg in English and Japanese (translation by Shin Sakamoto)

Released in October 2004