Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

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(Fontec, FOCD3453) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Tsun, Koitsume [Makoto Nomura] (14:05)
  2. Kyokusho no Kioku No. 2 [Otomo Yoshihide] (10:14)
  3. Shoryoe [words by Ko Machida, music by Yuji Takahashi] (20:29)
  4. Periphery [Takashi Niigaki] (13:21)
  5. Shirabe/Asobi/Otonai [Yuka Takechi] (19:46)

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Yuji Takahashi: one-string koto
Kazuko Takada: sangen
Yoko Nishi: koto
Yumiko Tanaka: futozao-shamisen
Ko Ishikawa: sho
Yoshiko Kanda: percussion

Recorded live at Sumida Triphony Hall, Tokyo, February 9, 1999
Art direction by Noriyuki Tanaka
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Kazuko Takada and Yuji Takahashi

Released in June 1999