Improvised Music from Japan /Discography

Tetsu Saitoh

Cotrabajeando

(Jabara, JAB-18) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Contrabajeando (tango) (6:36)
  2. Verano Porteño (alternate take) (tango) (6:43)
  3. Viene Clareando (Argentine zamba) (5:23)
  4. El Humahuaqueno (carnavalito) (4:52)
  5. Quebradinha (Brazilian Choro) (3:12)
  6. Berimbau (Brazilian music) (5:15)
  7. Dorvon Tsangihn Tar (Mongolian music) (4:07)
  8. Tukinukaisha / Kanwondo Arirang (Yaeyama and Korean folklore) (9:07)
  9. Hill of Ships, Stage of Warter Act 3 Interaction (music for a multi-media event) (5:57)
  10. A Rope (improvisation) (5:11)
  11. Sarabande from Suite for Violoncello No. 5 (J.S. Bach) (3:45)

bonus tracks

  1. Allemande from Solo Suite for Violoncello No. 1 (J.S. Bach) (2:05)
  2. Contrabajeando (alternate take) (tango) (7:21)

Tetsu Saitoh: contrabass
Instrument/ Ferdinand Gagliano (18C., Italian)
Arco/ Morizot (French)
Olive/ Pirastro, gut strings
Colophon/ Archet luxueux for violin
2 non-directional B&K4006 microphone
Pioneer/D-07A

Recorded by Hiroshi Ogawa at Rieko Koyama Gallery in Iizuna Highland, Nagano on December 15 and 16, 1996
Remastered by Hiroshi Ogawa at Studio Pelan Pelan on April 4, 2001
Produced by Junichi Morita
Photography by Yosaku Minatani
Design by Kazunori Okuyama

Includes liner notes (Japanese and English) by Tetsu Saitoh about the recording and the music

Released December 2001
Originally released as Solo: Contrabajeando (JAB-04) on Jabara in 1997; some track changes were made on this release.