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Haco

Haco

(MIDI Creative, CXCA-1006) (CD)


  1. Unguarded (3:03)
  2. Guarded (1:13)
  3. Would You Like Some Mushrooms? (5:08)
  4. Sunday Virgine (3:25)
  5. A Fragment (5:34)
  6. In a Cold Shower (2:24)
  7. Excellent Waves (5:32)
  8. The Way Things Go (Golden Baby) (4:05)
  9. Ice (4:26)
  10. A Habitat (4:49)
  11. Oil & Water (5:09)

All words and music by Haco, except track 4 (words by Haco and music by Bennett)

Haco: vocal, etc.
Tsuneo Imahori: guitars (1, 5, 6, 8)
Christopher Stephens: kitty guitar (1), spoken voices (10)
Hiroshi Nakagawa: bansuri and tabla (3), sopranino (11)
Nobuhisa Shimoda: percussion (3), bass (5, 6, 8, 11), chorus (7)
Samm Bennett (4): percussion, electric percussion, samples, squeezy toys, vocal
Kenichi Yao: percussion (5)
Peter Hollinger: electronic percussion (6)
Tom Cora: cello (9)

Recorded by Yoshihiro Kawasaki at Xebec, Kobe, except track 4, recorded by James McLean at Tomandandy Studio, New York City on December 25, 1992
Hollinger's electronic percussion computer-engineered by Andreas Loof in Berlin
Cora's cello self-recorded at Cojaux Studio in New York City
Photography: Kiyotoshi Takashima
Art direction: Yukio Fujimoto and Perfect Design
Produced by Haco and Yoshihiro Kawasaki

Released 1995