Improvised Music from Japan / Discography
Otomo Yoshihide
Ensemble Cathode
(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-502) (Japan) (CD)
- 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
- 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
- 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