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Koto Vortex

Koto Vortex II: Arcadia

(Dainippon Katei Ongakukai/Paradise, KVOR-002) (Japan) (CD)

  1. White Man Sleeps: First Dance [Kevin Volans] (4:43)

  2. Arcadia [Hiraku Sawai] (7:33)

  3. A Duel of the Woman: Or the Halt of Teleological Chronology [Koji Ueno]
    I. (4:55)
    II. (6:44)
    III. (3:51)

  4. For Koto Quartet "I Just Wanna Be Loved..." [Kensaku Shimizu] (11:14)

  5. Quartet for Koto and Jushichigen [Katsutoshi Nagasawa]
    I. (3:28)
    II. (5:11)

  6. To a Grain of Rice [Moondog] (5:57)

Koto Vortex
Yoko Nishi: koto
Miki Maruta: koto
Etsuko Takezawa: koto (3, 5, 6), 17-string koto (1, 2, 4)
Michiyo Yagi: koto (1), 17-string koto (2-6)

Produced by Koto Vortex
Recorded by Shigeru Koiwa at Eggs & Shep Studio, Yamanakako, December 14-16, 1995, and at Studio Sho, Tokyo, February 8 and 9, 1996
Mastered by Izumi Sekita and Shigeru Koiwa
Photo (Koto Vortex) by Miki Kikuchi
Design by Hideyuki Takemiya
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English

Released in November 1996