Improvised Music from Japan /Discography

Tetsu Saitoh Tango Groove Collective

Ausencias

(Jabara, JAB-07; Seven Seas, KICC257) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Biyuya (7:32)
  2. Milonga Para Tres (8:38)
  3. Contrabajissimo (13:20)
  4. Muerte del Angel (3:50)
  5. La Mufa (6:32)
  6. Luna (11:11)
  7. La Camorrai (9:21)
  8. Imagenes 676 (4:47)

Tetsu Saitoh: bass
Ryota Komatsu: bandoneon
Kyoko Kuroda: piano
Masaharu Iida: bass
Kumiko Kondo: violin

Recorded at Hoshi no Hall, Mitaka Geijutsu Bunka Center in Tokyo on December 2, 1997, except track 8 recorded live at Nardis in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture on October 30, 1997.
Engineered by Hiroshi Ogawa
Mastered by Keiko Ueda at Studio Tokyu Fun on December 29, 1997
Jacket design: Kazunori Okuyama
Photography: Koh Okabe
Produced by Junichi Morita

Includes liner notes by Tetsu Saitoh (in Japanese and English; translation by Yoshiyuki Suzuki and Cathy Fishman)

Released April 1998