Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Jyoji Sawada

EXPO '70

(Nani Records/Disk Union, NCD-301) (CD)

  1. Together, in the Morning Mist's Light (5:10)
  2. Let Everyone Play "Espressivo" (6:52)
  3. Silent Movie (4:52)
  4. The Great Adventures of Papa (5:42)
  5. A Dot, a Circle, a Pause and John L.: No Simple Relationship (3:04)
  6. Evoke (1:47)
  7. The Memory of Steel (2:54)
  8. EXPO '70 (18:22)

Daniel Ian Smith: soprano sax (1, 6-8)
Issei Igarashi: trumpet (8)
Yumiko Tanaka: gidayu-shamisen, voice, toys (2)
Miho Kudo: violin (2-5, 8)
Ryoko Mochizuki: violin (2, 4, 5, 8)
Kiyo Kido: violin (3)
Naoko Kobara: viola (2-5, 8)
Udai Shika: cello (1, 3, 8)
Naoya Mochizuki: cello (2, 4, 5, 8)
Takafumi Fujimoto: marimba (6, 8)
Yoichi Okabe: percussion (7, 8)
Miki Inoue: bell (7); voice (7, 8)
Satoko Ochiai: voice (8)
Toshiaki Chiku: voice (8)
Koorax Ithamara: voice (8)
Aki Onda: sound collage and editing (8)

All compositions by Jyoji Sawada
Texts of track 8 by Kenji Kubo and Toshiaki Chiku

Recorded at Yamate Goethe Theater on April 8 and 9, 1996 and Kitchen Studio on April 25 and 29, June 22, July 18 and August 7, 1996
Engineered by Takehiko Kamada
Mastered at Nippon Columbia by Hiroyuki Hosaka
Additional recording by ZAK
Produced by Aki Onda

Artwork: Daisuke Nakayama
Design: Katsuhiko Kimura
Photography: Asuka Katagiri
Art direction: Aki Onda

Includes liner notes by Jun-ichi Konuma (in Japanese and English; translation by haruna ito)

Released 1997