Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Satoshi Sonoda

Mimi-nuki: Secondary Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1982-1989

(P.S.F. Records, PSFD-203) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Noise Rose/Documentary of Onomatopoeia (3:25)
    Performed by Satoshi Sonoda (radio, records, tapes)

  2. Yumbo (extract) (4:32)
    Performed by Vel: Satoshi Sonoda (tapes), Hiromichi Fujii (film), Wataru Okuma (electric piano, ukulele), Tori Kudo (guitar), Masami Akita (electric percussion)

  3. The Painted Bird (Dedicated to Augustus Pablo) (6:49)
    Performed by Vel: Kyo Takenaka (violin), Satoshi Sonoda (guitar), Masaaki Motoyama (cello), Wataru Okuma (guitar), Shinya Kimura (drums), Takuya Nishimura (bass), Hitomi Shimizu (harmonium, from Syzygys)

  4. Sound Event (5:04)
    Performed by Vel: Rorie Amanuma (toy piano), Masaaki Motoyama (cello), Shogo Azechi (recorder), Satoshi Sonoda (tapes), Wataru Okuma (clarinet), Kaori Komura (kokyu, Japanese rebec)

  5. Seasons, from Morning till Night (4:00)
    Words by Aozora Kagekidan
    Performed by Aozora Kagekidan: Kromarton (voice, dance), Rorie Amanuma (voice, dance), "Ascension" Fibonacci aka Wataru Okuma (piano)

  6. Shida (6:52)
    Performed by Vel: Rorie Amanuma (vocal), Masaaki Motoyama (cello), Shinya Kimura (drums), Takuya Nishimura (bass), Wataru Okuma (electric piano), Satoshi Sonoda (guitar)

  7. Summer Landscape (extract) (8:02)
    Performed by Kármán Ensemble: Takeshi Ishida (piano), Mayumi Sugimoto (violin), Itsuko Ichiji (recorder), Amiko Yoshimura (harmonium), Satoshi Sonoda (tapes)

  8. Mimi-nuki (21:52)
    Arranged by Kyoko Kuroda
    Performed by Kyoko Kuroda's ORT: Kyoko Kuroda (piano, synthesizer), Atsushi Ikeda (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone), Yoichi Murata (trombone), Yasuo Shimada (bass), Kaoru Kida (drums), Otomo Yoshihide (turntable)

  9. Funeral (extract) (10:28)
    Performed by Vel: Satoshi Sonoda (tapes, guitar), Takeshi Ishida (piano), Ayumi Matsui (violin), Amiko Yoshimura (harmonium), Naomi Shibai (alto saxophone), Itsuko Ichiji (tenor saxophone)

Tracks 1, 3, 5-9 composed by Satoshi Sonoda; track 4 based on a 12th-century traditional tune

Track 1 recorded on 2-track reel-to-reel by Satoshi Sonoda at Sonoda's house, Mabashi, Chiba Prefecture, at the event Infecund Infection/Baikokushin - Namakojoshikosei, July 1982
Track 2 recorded on stereo compact cassette by the Organizing Committee of the event Anti-Japanese Independent at Wako University Gymnasium, Machida, Tokyo, October 23, 1983
Track 3 recorded on monaural 8-mm VTR by Yasuhito Higuchi at JAV 50 Hall, Kichijoji, Tokyo, April 2, 1987
Track 4 recorded on stereo compact cassette by Hirohito Koyama at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Meidaimae, Tokyo, May 20, 1987
Track 5 recorded on monaural 8-mm VTR by Satoshi Sonoda at Goodman, Ogikubo, Tokyo, at the event Cabaret of the Great Indigent - Three Nights in Midsummer, August 4, 1987
Track 6 recorded on monaural 8-mm VTR by Yasuhito Higuchi at Lazyways, Yoyogi, Tokyo, at the event Multiple Maniacs, September 4, 1987
Track 7 recorded on stereo compact cassette by Fumio Kosakai at Saitama University at the event A 56 Billion 70 Million Second Affair/Border Songs, November 5, 1988
Track 8 recorded on stereo compact cassette by Yoshiyuki Kitazato at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, June 10, 1989
Track 9 recorded on stereo compact cassette by Hirohito Koyama at North dorm square, Tokyo University Komaba campus, Tokyo, at the event NOISE IN X-es, December 17, 1989

Sound restoration by Minoru Yonemoto
Illustration by Isuzu Takeuchi
Includes an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Satoshi Sonoda in Japanese and English (translation by Alan Cummings) and black and white photos

Released in June 2012