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Shibusashirazu Orchestra

Paris Shibu Bukyoku: Live at Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris

(Chitei Records, B41/42F) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Barthasar (5:53)
  2. Matatabi (21:34)
  3. Hiro Kun on the Corner (3:51)
  4. Fight on the Corner (15:55)
  5. We Are a Fisherman Band: Introduction (2:30)

Disc 2

  1. We Are a Fisherman Band (5:03)
  2. Watabe's MC (2:34)
  3. We Are a Fisherman Band (3:29)
  4. Lion (11:11)
  5. Hikouki (9:08)
  6. Naadam (14:24)
  7. Theme of Honda Komuten (12:26)
  8. Senzu (1:03)
  9. Sutekichi (1:27)

Music by Daisuke Fuwa (Disc 1: 1, 4, 5; Disc 2: 1, 3-5, 7-9), Ayako Sasaki (Disc 1: 2), Hiroyuki Otsuka (Disc 1: 3), and Eiichi Hayashi (Disc 2: 6)
Words by Shinichi Watabe (Disc 2: 1, 3) and Takuboku Ishikawa (Disc 2: 5)

Shibusashirazu Orchestra
Daisuke Fuwa: conductor
Shinichi Watabe: MC, vocal
Aya Murodate: flute, vocal
Kazuhisa Uchihashi: guitar
Hiroyuki Otsuka: guitar
Hwang Taeil: guitar
Chihiro Suzuki: keyboard
Aki Ono: bass
Jun Isobe: drums
Takayuki Matsumura: percussion
Han Sato: tenor saxophone
Hideki Tachibana: alto saxophone
Keiko Komori: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Arata Suzuki: soprano saxophone, wind synthesizer
Akira Kito: baritone saxophone
Yoichiro Kita: trumpet
Mitsuhide Tatsumi: trumpet
Sayaka: dance
Pero: dance
Kae Minami: dance
Toyo Matsubara: Butoh dance
Yoshihiro Shimomura: Butoh dance
Mayumi Fukuzaki: Butoh dance
Chie Mukai: Butoh dance
Takako Hasegawa: Butoh dance

Recorded live by Yutaka Une at Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris, Paris, France, September 29, 2007
Mixed and mastered by Yutaka Une
Design by Kazunobu Kosuge
Photos by Keiko Fujimoto
Illustrations by Kenichi Aoyama
Produced by Shibusashirazu
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Teruto Soejima

Released in November 2008