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Kazuo Imai Trio

Blood

(doubtmusic, dmf-124/5) (Japan) (CD + DVD set)

Disc 1 (CD)

  1. Cartoon (4:51)
  2. Nothing Ever Was, Anyway (8:15)
  3. Blood (second take) (6:05)
  4. Sarabande (6:48)
  5. Subconscious-Lee (3:35)
  6. So in Love (7:59)
  7. Well You Needn't (2:41)
  8. Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux (6:18)
  9. Albert's Love Theme (8:41)

Recorded live by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound L Studio, Tokyo, July 19, 2008 (1-4, 6, 9), and at GOK Sound A and B Studios, Tokyo, August 25, 2008 (5, 7, 8)
Mixed and mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo

Disc 2 (DVD: NTSC, region free, total time 40:34)

  1. Butterflies That I Feel inside Me
  2. Paroxysm
  3. AW-1
  4. Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux
  5. KK-1
  6. Blood (first take)
  7. Extra Movie

Filmed by Chikara Iwai at GOK Sound L Studio, Tokyo, July 19, 2008
Audio recorded, mixed, and mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo

Music by Annette Peacock (disc 1-1-3, 9; disc 2-1, 6), Johann Sebastian Bach (disc 1-4), Lee Konitz (disc 1-5), Cole Porter (disc 1-6), Thelonious Monk (disc 1-7), Georges Brassens (disc 1-8; disc 2-4), and Kazuo Imai (disc 2-2, 3, 5)

Kazuo Imai Trio
Kazuo Imai: guitar
Atsuhiro Ito: optron
Manabu Suzuki: electronics

Produced by Jun Numata
Design by Akira Sasaki
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English by Kazuo Imai (English translation by Mari Nabeshima)

Released in October 2008