Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Samm Bennett

Secrets of Teaching Yourself Music

(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-516) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Extra Added Plus (1:50)
  2. Betweeners (2:53)
  3. Triumph of the Marginalized (1:14)
  4. Lizard on a Leaf (2:34)
  5. Gas Can Evidence (0:59)
  6. Untried Procedure (2:22)
  7. Please Tameecha (1:30)
  8. I'm in No Mood (1:16)
  9. Magazines and Whatnot (1:31)
  10. Non-Intervention (2:45)
  11. Crag and Flotilla (1:47)
  12. Transitory Stopgap Provisional (3:47)
  13. You Can't Burn Dirt (4:14)
  14. Old Dry Bone (1:18)
  15. The Small and Tarnished Gong (0:59)
  16. Shady Alliance (2:13)
  17. Everywhere That There We Went (1:24)
  18. Erasing the Inevitable (9:49)
  19. Even If (2:24)

All music by Samm Bennett

Samm Bennett: Korg WaveDrum, vibrators and contact mics, Korg ER-1, Alesis AirSynth, Casio VL-Tone, CD player, Bias, bumble ball, can, gong, beepers, effectors, and crank-toy with portable karaoke mic

Recorded live at four concerts in Tokyo: Ekoda Buddy on August 7, 2003, Super Deluxe on November 2, 2003, Off Site on November 7, 2003, and Shinjuku Pit Inn on December 6, 2003; and at Polarity, Tokyo, January 2004
Mastered by Haruna Ito and Samm Bennett at Polarity, February 2004
Photography and design by Haruna Ito and Samm Bennett

Released in March 2004