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Otomo Yoshihide Invisible Songs

Sora

(EWE Records, EWCD 0135) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Untitled - Opening (1:09)
  2. Sora (5:58)
  3. Cicada (8:49)
  4. Suika wo Motte Shinda Otoko-no Yoru / Comme à la Radio (14:43)
  5. 3033 (1:56)
  6. Watermelon (5:56)
  7. Banka-la (2:06)
  8. Sentimental Journey (2:18)
  9. On Suicide (Ueber den Selbstmord) (6:48)
  10. Untitled - Ending (3:44)

All tracks arranged by Otomo Yoshihide
Music by Leonid Soybelman (1, 10); Otomo Yoshihide (2, 3, 5-7); Otomo Yoshihide, Tatsuo Kondo, Mitsuru Nasuno, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (4, "Suika..."); Belkacem Areski (4, "Comme à la Radio"); Otomo Yoshihide, Alfred Harth, Tatsuo Kondo, Mitsuru Nasuno, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (8); Hanns Eisler (9)
Words by Leonid Soybelman (1, 10), Seiichi Yamamoto (2, 3, 7), Toshihiko Shimizu (4, "Suika..."), Brigitte Fontaine (4, "Comme à la Radio"), Shinobu Kawai (5), Kahimi Karie (6), Bertolt Brecht (9)

Leonid Soybelman: vocal (1), guitar (1)
Otomo Yoshihide: vocal (1, 4), banjo (1, 4, 10), guitar (2-10), radio (4, 5), turntable (4, 5, 8)
Kahimi Karie: vocal (1, 6, 9, 10)
Tatsuo Kondo: celesta (1, 4, 9), electric piano (2, 4), sampled mellotron (2, 4, 8), organ (3, 5-7, 10), piano (9)
Seiichi Yamamoto: vocal (2, 3, 7), electronics (3)
Mitsuru Nasuno: electric bass (2-9)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums (2-7, 9), vocal (4), percussion (4, 8, 9), trumpet (2, 4)
Alfred Harth: bass clarinet (3), tenor saxophone (4, 6-9)
Shinobu Kawai: vocal (4, 5)
Jim O'Rourke: vocal (10), guitar (10)

Recorded by Masataka Takamura at Onkio Haus Studio No. 1, May 24 and 25, 2007
Tracks 1, 3, 6, and 10 mixed by Otomo Yoshihide at Grid 605, June and August 2007
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, June 2007
Mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, September 1, 2007
Produced by Otomo Yoshihide
Art direction and design by Gento Matsumoto
Photos by Hideki Kono

Released in November 2007