Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Wadada Leo Smith and N'da Kulture

Golden Hearts Remembrance

(Chap Chap Records, CPCD-002) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Emmeya (for Alex Wallace) (12:08)
  2. Lotus Garden (for Amiya Dasgupta) (12:15)
  3. Tawhid (for Lamar) (9:50)
  4. Golden Hearts Remembrance, a Nur Bakhshad (for Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh) (12:48)
  5. Condor (Memorial for Dizzy Gillespie) (14:42)
  6. Mother: Sarah Brown-Smith-Wallace (1920-92) (7:28)

All music by Wadada Leo Smith
Words by Harumi Makino Smith (1, 5)

Wadada Leo Smith and N'da Kulture
Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet, flugelhorn, nohkan
David Philipson: bansuri, tambura
William Roper: tuba
Glenn Horiuchi: piano, shamisen
Sonship Theus: drums, percussion
Harumi Makino Smith: poetry

Recorded by Jim Mooney at Sage and Sound in Hollywood, California on January 18, 1997
Mixed by Tom Erbe
Art and graphic cutting: Harumi Makino Smith
Calligraphy: Delavar Karaien
Photography: Robert Fenz
Photo collage, computer layout, and booklet design: Harumi Makino Smith
Produced by Wadada Leo Smith

Released 1997