Cassiber

Live in Tokyo

(Off Note, ON-25) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1: Cassiber Live in Tokyo

1. A Screaming Comes across the Sky (2:15)
2. They Have Begun to Move (5:11)
3. They Go in under Archways (2:49)
4. Philosophy (0:54)
5. Gut (3:03)
6. Prisoner Chorus (3:38)
7. Todo Dia (3:12)
8. Come On! Start the Show! (3:10)
9. It's Never Quiet (2:49)
10. O Cure Me (3:32)
11. Our Colourful Culture (2:29)
12. Prometheus (5:01)
13. Remember (2:24)
14. I Was Old (5:14)
15. Orpheus Mirror (4:39)
16. I Tried to Reach You (2:42)

Disc 2: "Cassiber Live in Tokyo" Re-mixed by Ground-Zero

1. Across the Sky #1 (20:27)
2. O Cure @ Me (6:15)
3. Gutt (4:34)
4. Across the Sky #2 (4:25)
5. a: Across the Sky #3 - b: At Last I Am Free - c: Across the Stars (12:49)

Disc 1

Guest
Masami Shinoda: alto sax

All music by Cassiber except track 5, by René Lussier, and track 8, by Christoph Anders
Words by Thomas Pynchon (1-3, 8), Chris Cutler (4, 9, 11-14, 16), Christoph Anders (5, 6, 15), and Johann Sebastian Bach (10)

Recorded at Shin-okubo R's Art Court, Tokyo, October 23, 1992
Sound improvements and mastering by Heiner Goebbels in Frankfurt, 1997
Produced by Heiner Goebbels

Track 1:
Music by Cassiber, Masami Shinoda, Otomo Yoshihide, and Tatsuki Masuko
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, CD-J, hard-disk recorder
Tatsuki Masuko: DX-7
Mizuhiro: Mono-Poly
Kazunao Nagata: ARP 2600

Track 2:
Music by Cassiber, Masami Shinoda, Hoahio (Haco, Michiyo Yagi, and Sachiko M), and Otomo Yoshihide
Words by Johann Sebastian Bach
Otomo Yoshihide: rhythm box, hard-disk recorder
Haco: voice
Michiyo Yagi: 21-string koto, teeth clack
Sachiko M: sampler
Masahiro Uemura: drums
Sampled guest
Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: electronic sounds

Track 3:
Music by Cassiber, Otomo Yoshihide, and Tatsuki Masuko
Words by Christoph Anders
Otomo Yoshihide: hard-disk recorder
Tatsuki Masuko: beats
Mizuhiro: Mono-Poly
Sachiko M: sampler
Masahiro Uemura: drums

Track 4:
Music by Cassiber, Otomo Yoshihide, and traditional
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, hard-disk recorder
Shuichi Chino: piano

Track 5:
a: Music by Cassiber, Masami Shinoda, and Otomo Yoshihide
b: Music by Nile Rodgers, words by Bernard Edwards
c: Music by Ground-Zero
Otomo Yoshihide: CD-J, self-made guitar, hard-disk recorder
Junji Hirose: tenor sax
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: tenor sax (b, c)
Shuichi Chino: piano, combo organ
Sachiko M: sampler (a, c)
Yasuhiro Otani: computer (a, b)
Mitsuru Nasuno: bass (b, c)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums (b, c)

All music based on source materials from "Cassiber Live in Tokyo"
Sampled and re-mixed by Otomo Yoshihide and Ground-Zero at A-102 Studio, Tokyo, September-November 1997
Additional recordings by Yumi Kobayashi (1-3) and Yoshiaki Kondo (4, 5) at GOK Sound, Tokyo, October-November 1997
Pre-mixing by Yoshiaki Kondo (2-5) at GOK Sound, Tokyo, November 4, 1997
Mastered by Kazunao Nagata at Transonic Studio, November 9, 1997
Produced by Otomo Yoshihide

Released in December 1997

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