Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide
Masahiko Shimada

My Dear Mummy: Miira ni Narumade

(Sank-ohso Discs/Creativeman Disc., CMDD-00034) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Introduction (3:27)
  2. Day 1 to day 4 (5:16)
  3. Day 5 to day 10 (5:38)
  4. Day 11 (0:30)
  5. Day 12 to day 18 (6:26)
  6. Day 19 to day 20 (6:26)
  7. Day 21 to day 28 (7:59)
  8. Day 29 to day 31 (3:08)
  9. Day 32 to day 35 (10:03)
  10. Day 36 to day 43 (8:29)
  11. Day 44 to day 52 (10:48)
  12. Day 53 to day 62 (2:32)

Otomo Yoshihide: conductor
Takashi Harada: ondes Martenot
Ko Ishikawa: sho
Hitomi Nakamura: hichiriki
Yuko Hirai: ryuteki and koma-fue
Uchihashi Kazuhisa: electric guitar, effects
Masaaki Kikuchi: doublebass, electronics
Kumiko Takara: percussion
Mari Era: percussion
Shiro Sano: narrator
Masahiko Shimada: narrator

Sampled guest
Derek Bailey: guitar

Conceived by Otomo Yoshihide for Mosquito Paper
Original text by Masahiko Shimada
Produced by Shigenori Noda

Recorded at GOK Sound, Tokyo, June 23, 1996
Mixed at GOK Sound, Tokyo, June 24 and 25, 1996
Engineered by Yoshiaki Kondo
Mastered at Kojima Recordings Inc., Tokyo, September 23, 1996
Photos by Junsuke Takimoto
Design and artwork by Workshy-Oishi
Includes liner notes by Masahiko Shimada and Otomo Yoshihide (in Japanese and English; translation by Haruna Ito)

Released in April 1997