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Hetakuso

Serpent of the Clumsy Chowder

(Put-Tun Office, PT-009) (CD)

  1. Guncan (5:54)
  2. Ugokanai Yama (4:33)
  3. Love Afection (Hebi no Rakuin) (6:40)
  4. Ren Dan (5:55)
  5. Show Time (2:31)
  6. Ichinichi Omae ni (4:43)
  7. Bemmo (Bali Taxi) (4:06)
  8. Itsu Hareta, Mizu (6:39)
  9. Battle Ship (6:29)

Words by Suekichi-Guy (1-8) and Melissa Lovric (9)
Music by Hetakuso (1-3), Sharmin and Hetakuso (4), Suekichi-Guy (5-8), and Peter Seaborn (9)
All arrangements by Hetakuso and guests

Hetakuso
Suekichi-Guy: lead vocal, percussion
Yahata: guitar, vocal
Sharmin: bass, vocal
Sun-Chirico: keyboards, vocal
Die: drums, vocal

Special guests
Yoshihide Otomo (5, 9): turntables, guitar
Necoiru Mimura: guitar (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9)
U-Gin: vocal (2, 8)

Produced by Hetakuso
Recorded and mixed by Takao Akimoto at GOK Sound in Tokyo, May-October 1993
Mastered at Kojima Recordings in Tokyo, December 1993
Art direction and design: Arata Kiyohara
Photography: Takahiro Mitsuyoshi and Arata Kiyohara

Released February 1994