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Tetuzi Akiyama

Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo

(Headz, DAT-3/HEADZ 43) (Japan) (CD)

Part One: Soundtrack from the imaginary film Route 13 to the Gates of Hell

  1. Tuning 1 (0:36)
  2. Tried to Catch the Last Sun (7:30)
  3. Promised Things Blues (3:24)
  4. Whatever Comes Across (2:21)
  5. Fire Burnin' Softly (5:27)
  6. Tuning 2 (0:44)
  7. Body or Soul (3:00)
  8. Black Sally Is a Tough Shit (2:17)
  9. Tuning 3 (0:39)
  10. Sixty Thousand and Ninety Years Later (4:09)
  11. Interlude (0:23)

Part Two: Excerpts from Tetuzi Akiyama / Don't Forget to Boogie! (Idea Records, IDEA 2008)

  1. It's a Boogie Thing (4:58)
  2. Dead or... (5:01)
  3. Money, Love Rock (2:11)
  4. Doll House Shakin' (4:02)
  5. Tuning 4 (0:37)
  6. Fast Machine (for Alan Licht) (9:26)
  7. Tuning 5 (0:39)
  8. Don't Forget to Boogie (6:47)
  9. Acid Highway (1:14)
  10. City of Gold (2:08)

All tracks composed by Tetuzi Akiyama

Tetuzi Akiyama: amplified wooden guitar (1-10), electric "boogie" guitar (12-21)

Recorded live at "Unknown Mix Returns, Vol. 2-7," Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo, May 7, 2004
Mastered by Masanori Yanagawa at the Laboratory of Phonic Aim, Tokyo, and by Katsuhiko Okahisa at Cue Studio, Tokyo
Painting by Tattaka
Photo by Uri Auerbach
Design by Tetuzi Akiyama and Akira Sasaki
Cover story by Tetuzi Akiyama (in Japanese and English; English translation by Hashim Bharoocha)

Released in March 2005