Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Peter Brötzmann
Shoji Hano

Funny Rat

(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-512) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Funny Rat 1 (24:42)
  2. Snake and Sheep (11:16)
  3. We All Like Mountain Rabbit (18:12)
  4. Funny Rat 3 (5:47)
  5. Funny Rat 2 (12:21)

Peter Brötzmann: tarogato, bass clarinet, tenor sax
Shoji Hano: drums, percussion

Recorded live by Tsutomu Suto (morgue-sha) at Aku Aku, Tsukuba, October 10, 1991
Mastered by Tsutomu Suto, June 21, 2003
Produced by Shoji Hano
Photographs by Arndt Sebastian
Front and inside lettering by Peter Brötzmann
Design by Samm Bennett and Haruna Ito (Polarity Design)

Released in October 2003
Originally released on cassette tape by EGG Records (EGG 89002) in 1992 (except track 4, released here for the first time)