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Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi

Flying Chikamorachi

(King Records, KICJ 637) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Flying Chikamorachi (16:09)
  2. After 40 Years (7:23)
  3. Five Elephants in a Beetle (10:12)
  4. Kaguya-Hime Standing on Her Head (17:25)
  5. Arekore Shitashi (16:39)

Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone
Darin Gray: bass (1-3, 5)
Chris Corsano: drums (1-3, 5)

Guests
Yosuke Yamashita: piano (2-5)
Jim O'Rourke: guitar (2-5)
Michiyo Yagi: 21-string koto, 17-string bass koto (2, 4, 5)

Recorded live by Tomomi Baba at Shibuya WWW, Tokyo, November 9, 2011, as part of the Flying Chikamorachi Tokyo-Moscow-Europe-Tokyo tour
Mixed by Jim O'Rourke at Steamroom Tokyo
Design by Hajime Kobayashi
Photos by Kikuna Mishima and Yukitaka Amemiya
Includes Japanese liner notes by Akira Sakata

Released in March 2012