Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kazue Sawai

Ta-Wa-Go

(God Mountain, GMCD 017) (CD)

  1. Crack Pot (7:18)
  2. Scared Straight (4:15)
  3. Anata no Tsuyu ni Naritai / Flamingo (5:29)
  4. Titicut Follies (11:51)
  5. Red Dye (4:15)
  6. (YxDan) HELGA (3:23)
  7. BOZO (8:42)
  8. Transcendental Masterbation (6:24)
  9. Cn + Co = In + Io (6:06)

All music by Kazue Sawai, except tracks 4, 5, 7 and 8 by Kazue Sawai, Junji Hirose and Hoppy Kamiyama

Kazue Sawai: 13-string and 17-string kotos
Junji Hirose: saxes, hand-made noise machine
Hoppy Kamiyama: prepared piano, samples, gram-pot

Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo on July 5, 1994
Mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo on October 21, 1994
Mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo at Kojima Recordings, Tokyo on December 1, 1994
Art direction and design: Opium
Produced by Hoppy Kamiyama

Released 1995