Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Phew

View

(P-Vine Records, PCD-7221) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Dirge (2:45)
  2. May (3:08)
  3. Act (1:56)
  4. Bloom (4:22)
  5. Spot (1:13)
  6. Bay (4:03)
  7. Flood (2:31)
  8. Vision (2:42)
  9. Youth (1:56)
  10. Past (3:45)
  11. H-Stag (1:59)
  12. Fall (2:50)

Bonus tracks

  1. Hitori (4:47)
  2. Closed--Fragment (5:00)
  3. Tsubasa (3:20)

All words and music by Phew, except track 14, by Phew, Conny Plank, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit; and track 3, whose music by Y. Fukushima

Phew: vocal, bass, guitar, etc.
Makoto Ohtsu: guitar, bass guitar, backing vocal
Masahiro Minowa:drums, metal percussion, backing vocal
Tetsuo Kondo: keyboards, accordion, clarinet, violin, percussion, backing vocal
Takanari Hagiwara: alto recorder (6), backing vocal (7)

Tracks 1-13

Recorded at Victor Studio and Smoky Studio
Mixed at Freedom Studio in April 1987
Engineered by Yoshifumio Iio
Produced by Phew
Tracks 1-13 were originally released as the album View in the formats of LP (CI-70), cassettte tape (U4BC-98), and CD (30CH-258) on Teichiku Records in 1987.

Bonus tracks
Recorded live at Shibuya Eggman in June 7, 1986 (14), and at Ogimachi Museum Square on January 25, 1987 (15, 16)

Photography by Yuzaburo Amemiya and Hiroshi Kawabe
Design by Koji Kawabe
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Manabu Yuasa

Released April 2002