Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

Ensemble Cathode

(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-502) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Cathode #4 (20:57)

    Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
    Tetuzi Akiyama: turntable without records, contact microphones
    Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: waterphone
    Kumiko Takara: snare drum
    Masahiro Uemura: bells
    Ami Yoshida: voice
    Itoken: crotales
    Mari Furuta: snare drum
    Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: cymbal with bow
    Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
    Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto

  2. Cathode #5 (14:19)

    Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto
    Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
    Andrea Neumann: inside piano
    Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
    Otomo Yoshihide: turntable

  3. Cathode #3 (Variation of Modulation #1) (22:15)

    Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
    Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: percussion
    Kumiko Takara: vibraphone, percussion
    Ko Ishikawa: sho
    Ami Yoshida: voice
    Mari Furuta: crotales, percussion
    Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: percussion with bow
    Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
    Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto

All composed by Otomo Yoshihide

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo, May-July 2001
Additional recording by Otomo Yoshihide at A-102 Studio and M-101 Studio, Tokyo, August 2001 and March 2002
Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura in May 2002
Produced by Otomo Yoshihide
Design by Masae Tanabe
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English (translation by Cathy Fishman and Yoshiyuki Suzuki) by Otomo Yoshihide

Released in July 2002