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(Unknownmix/Headz, UNKNOWNMIX 4/HEADZ 97) (Japan) (CD)

  1. A Thing That Is Not as It Has Been Used to Be (16:00)
  2. Would You Mind Being Re-animated (1:51)
  3. A Monk Who Reserves (2:33)
  4. Hankyu-Rokko on the Seabed (4:49)
  5. Parabola towards Death (3:40)
  6. Lark (1:41)
  7. Captain (for Tetuzi Akiyama) (6:27)
  8. On Death (3:20)
  9. 47°9'S, 126°43'W (3:18)
  10. Hankyu-Rokko on the Seabed (4:47)
  11. An Excuse to Live (2:43)
  12. Piano (3:34)

All music by Taku Unami

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Masafumi Ezaki: trumpet
Toshihiro Koike: trombone
Taku Unami: guitar
Tomoya Izumi: bass
Reiji Hattori: bodhrán

Kanji Nakao: trombone (1), chorus (12)
Takuya Sakamoto: counting (1), chorus (12)
Masato Eguchi: chorus (12)
Takafumi Ogiwara: chorus (12)
Yusuke Sakagami: chorus (12)
Sei: chorus (12)
Kozue Takayama: chorus (12)
Junichiro Tanaka: chorus (12)
Mitsue Toda: chorus (12)
Yasuo Totsuka: chorus (12)
Takefumi Naoshima: chorus (12)
Momo Nonaka: chorus (12)
Ayako Hattori: chorus (12)
Tomoko Yamaguchi: chorus (12)
Shintaro Watanabe: chorus (12)

Recorded at Loop-Line, March 11 and 23, 2007
Mastered by Taku Unami
Drawing by Tomoya Izumi
Design by Akira Sasaki
Includes liner notes (12 prose poems) in Japanese by Chorui Ogasawara

Released in July 2007