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Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra

Live Vol. 2: Parallel Circuit

(doubtmusic, dmf-117/118) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Shichinin no Keiji (12:34)
  2. Gazzelloni (5:15)
  3. Te Recuerdo Amanda--Song for Ché--Reducing Agent (12:14)
  4. Super Jetter (6:17)
  5. Anodeonjo (15:05)

Disc 2

  1. Lupin the Third: Theme of Walther (Afro Lupin '68) (5:32)
  2. Double Command 0--Mayonaka no Shizukana Kuroi Kawa no Ue ni Ukabiagaru Shiroi Yuri no Hana (29:39)
  3. Something Sweet, Something Tender (10:28)
  4. Eureka--Climbers High Ending (13:53)

Music by Takeo Yamashita (Disc 1: 1, 4; Disc 2: 1), Eric Dolphy (Disc 1: 2; Disc 2: 3), Victor Jara (Disc 1: 3 "Te Recuerdo Amanda"), Charlie Haden (Disc 1: 3 "Song for Ché"), Otomo Yoshihide (Disc 1: 3 "Reducing Agent," 5; Disc 2: 2, 4 "Climbers High Ending"), and Jim O'Rourke (Disc 2: 4 "Eureka")
Words by Victor Jara (Japanese translation by Tokiko Kato) (Disc 1: 3 "Te Recuerdo Amanda"), Kahimi Karie (Disc 2: 2 "Mayonaka no Shizukana Kuroi Kawa no Ue ni Ukabiagaru Shiroi Yuri no Hana"), and Jim O'Rourke (French translation by Kahimi Karie) (Disc 2: 4 "Eureka")

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar, conductor
Kenta Tsugami: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Alfred Harth: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet (Disc 1: 1-4; Disc 2: 1, 3, 4)
Taisei Aoki: trombone, bamboo flute (Disc 1: 1-3; Disc 2: 2-4)
Masahiko Okura: alto saxophone, bass clarinet, tubes (Disc 1: 1-3, 5; Disc 2: 2-4)
Axel Dörner: trumpet (Disc 2: 3)
Masafumi Ezaki: trumpet (Disc 2: 3)
Ko Ishikawa: sho (Disc 1: 1-4; Disc 2: 1, 3, 4)
Sachiko M: sinewaves
Taku Unami: computer with objects (Disc 1: 1-3, Disc 2: 3, 4)
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone
Hiroaki Mizutani: contrabass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion, trumpet, vocal
Kahimi Karie: voice, vocal (Disc 1: 1, 3; Disc 2: 1, 2, 4)
Kayo Ishu: vocal (Disc 1: 1, 4; Disc 2: 1)
Margareth Kammerer: vocal (Disc 1: 1; Disc 2: 1)
Yoshiaki Kondo: live sound engineering (Disc 1: 1-4; Disc 2: 1, 3, 4)
Jo Foster: trumpet, electronics (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Hong Chulki: electronics (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Choi Joonyong: electronics (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Jin Sangtae: electronics (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Ryu Hankil: electronics (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Dickson Dee: computer (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Atsuhiro Ito: optron (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Taku Hannoda: guitar (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Teruyuki Oshima: guitar (Disc 1: 5)
Yukie Sato: guitar (Disc 1: 5; Disc 2: 2)
Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: percussion (Disc 1: 5)
Itoken: percussion (Disc 1: 5), conductor (Disc 2: 2)
Taku Sugimoto: six-string electric bass (Disc 2: 2)
Fujitaka Ito: violin (Disc 2: 2)
Yoko Ikeda: violin (Disc 2: 2)
Tekko Koryu: violin (Disc 2: 2)
Leon Lo: violin (Disc 2: 2)
Kazuya Takeda: violin (Disc 2: 2)
Tadanobu Kumon: cello (Disc 2: 2)
Junichi Ishizuka: trombone (Disc 2: 2)
Hayato Kurosawa: trombone (Disc 2: 2)
Yoshifusa Takahashi: bass trombone (Disc 2: 2)
Chisato Ito: oboe (Disc 2: 2)
Tomohiro Higashikinjo: alto saxophone (Disc 2: 2)
Yosuke Toyoda: alto saxophone (Disc 2: 2)
Miho Watanabe: alto saxophone (Disc 2: 2)
Yoichi Yoshida: tenor saxophone (Disc 2: 2)
Yohei Ota: bass clarinet (Disc 2: 2)
Takumi Akaishi: hurdy gurdy (Disc 2: 2)
Keijun Kodama: percussion (Disc 2: 2)

Disc 1: 1 recorded live by Yoshiaki Kondo at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, March 17, 2006; and at Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo, September 16, 2006
Disc 1: 2 recorded live by Koji Sato at Hardy Hall, Kambai-kan, Doshisha University, Kyoto, February 12, 2006
Disc 1: 3 recorded live by Yoshiaki Kondo at Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo, September 16, 2006
Disc 1: 4 and Disc 2: 1 recorded live by Yoshiaki Kondo at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, March 17, 2006
Disc 1: 5 recorded live by Yasuo Fujimura at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, September 24, 2005
Disc 2: 2 recorded live by Yasuo Fujimura at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, September 25, 2005
Disc 2: 3 recorded live by Yoshiaki Kondo at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, March 18, 2006; and at Asahi Art Square, Asakusa, Tokyo, September 16, 2006
Disc 2: 4 recorded live by Yasuhiro Usui at Tokuzo, Nagoya, February 11, 2006

Overdubbing of Otomo Yoshihide's sound effects (Disc 1: 1), Otomo Yoshihide's guitar and Kahimi Karie's voice (Disc 1: 3), Otomo Yoshihide's guitar and turntables, Kayo Ishu's vocal, Taku Unami's computer, and Kumiko Takara's glockenspiel (Disc 1: 4), and Otomo Yoshihide's sound effects and Midori Hara's chorus (Disc 2: 1)
Mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo and Otomo Yoshihide
Mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo
Produced by Otomo Yoshihide and Jun Numata
Design by Akira Sasaki
Photos by Keiko Shinya, Kahimi Karie, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Kumiko Takara, Chikara Iwai, Hiroaki Mizutani, and Tatsushi Iijima
Includes liner notes by Otomo Yoshihide in Japanese and English (translation by Cathy Fishman)

Released in August 2007