Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden

Stayin' Alive / Fame / Pan-American Beef Stake Art Federation 2

(Columbia Music Entertainment, COCP-50817) (Japan) (CD-Extra)


Audio

  1. Stayin' Alive (13:09)
  2. Fame (7:53)
  3. Pan-American Beef Stake Art Federation 2 (20:18)

MPEG Video

  1. Structure I [live version] (12:13)

Music by The Bee Gees (1), Davie Bowie (2), Naruyoshi Kikuchi (3), and Naruyoshi Kikuchi with Masayasu Tzuboguchi; all arrangements by Naruyoshi Kikuchi except (3), arranged by Naruyoshi Kikuchi with Koki Takai

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: conductor, CD-J, keyboard
Jason Shalton: guitar
Koki Takai: guitar
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums
Nobuo Fujii: drums
Masaki Kurihara: bass
Kenta Tsugami: soprano saxophone
Gosekky: tenor saxophone
Masayasu Tzuboguchi: synthesizers, electric
Gen Oogimi: percussion
Masaki Yoshimi: tabla
Takero Sekijima: tuba
Taisei Aoki: trombone
Shiro Sasaki: trumpet

Recorded by Shigeki Nakamura and Kenji Konishi
Produced by Naruyoshi Kikuchi
Edited and mixed by Naruyoshi Kikuchi with Koki Takai and Shigeki Nakamura
Mastered by Masayo Takise
Visual editing by Gen Natsume
Artwork by Lucas Quigley
Includes liner notes by Naruyoshi Kikuchi (in Japanese and English; translation by Seth High and Aya High)

Released in September 2004