Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden

Musical from Chaos

(P-Vine, PCD-18506/7) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc / Catch22

  1. Catch 22 (17:29)
  2. Catch 22 (12:28)
  3. Catch 22 (10:11)
  4. Catch 22 (16:17)
  5. Catch 22 (15:19)

Disc / Iron Mountain Menu

  1. Playmate at Hanoi (13:49)
  2. Spanish Key (14:00)
  3. Stayin' Alive (16:03)
  4. Circle / Line - Hard Core Peace (15:07)
  5. S (8:27)
  6. Ho Chi Minh Shi no Mirror Ball (10:57)

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: conductor, CD-J, keyboard
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar
Koki Takai: guitar
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums
Nobuo Fujii: drums
Masaki Kurihara: bass
Kenta Tsugami: soprano saxophone
Gosekky: tenor saxophone
Masayasu Tzuboguchi: synthesizers, electric
Gen Ogimi: percussion
Masaki Yoshimi: tabla

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden Hi-Brass
Takeo Sekijima: tuba
Taisei Aoki: trombone
Shiro Sasaki: trumpet
Kunimitsu Kohata: trumpet
Koji Nishimura: trumpet

Produced by Naruyoshi Kikuchi
Recorded and engineered by Kenji Konishi and Shigeki Nakamura at Liquid Room on October 1, 2001 and December 29, 2003, and at On Air East on April 19, 2002; by Tetsunari Tamura and Akira Fukada at NHK Live Beat on July 12, 2001; and at Star Pine's Cafe on June 24, 2001
Mixed by Kenji Konishi and Shigeki Nakamura, and by Koki Takai
Edited by Shigeki Nakamura at Beat Club, Sound Arts
Mastered by Masayo Takise at M's Disk Mastering
Cover art by Michael Leon
Design by Yoshinobu Arima

Released in June 2003