Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Chizuru Mitsuhashi

Cabaret: Kurt Weill to William Duckworth

(Geisha Farm, Geisha Farm/MSM 60105) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Applause (0:18)

  2. Speak Low (5:01)
    By Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash; arrangement by Tomoko Yazawa

  3. Bilbao Song (3:32)
    By Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht; arrangement by Tomoko Yazawa

  4. Sex-Appeal (4:19)
    By Friedrich Holläender and Marcellus Schiffer; arrangement by Tomoko Yazawa

  5. Illusions (2:42)
    By Friedrich Holläender

  6. Peter Peter (3:57)
    By Rudolf Nelson and Friedrich Holläender; arrangement by Tomoko Yazawa

  7. Sous le Ciel de Paris (4:01)
    By Hubert Giraud and Jean André Dréjac; arrangement by Reiko Itokawa

  8. The Letter (4:56)
    By Lisa Bielawa

  9. Standing Still (3:26)
    By Lisa Bielawa

    Simple Songs about Sex and War
    By William Duckworth and Hayden Carruth
  10. Six O'Clock (2:23)
  11. If Love's No More (2:08)
  12. The Stranger (3:35)
  13. Freilingslied (2:52)
  14. Always or The Children or Whatever (2:46)
  15. Die Kleptomanin (2:53)
  16. Foot Steps (0:17)

Chizuru Mitsuhashi: vocals
Tomoko Yazawa: piano, synthesizer

Recorded at SFO Studio, Tokyo, April 2002-February 2003, except (3) and (4), recorded live at Mandala, Tokyo, March 10, 2000
Sound programming by Kazunori Nemoto (1, 15, 16)
Sound operation by Tomoko Yazawa (1, 7, 15, 16)
Engineered by Hideki Shinozaki
Package design by So Takahashi
Includes artist profiles (in English) and song lyrics
Japanese translation of lyrics by Tomoko Yazawa and Chizuru Mitsuhashi (3, 5, 15)

Released in 2003