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Tenko

At the Top of Mt. Brocken

(Shoh, SHOH-121) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Blue Heat (4:32)
  2. Moonlight Waltz (5:09)
  3. If I... (3:14)
  4. A Piece of Silence (8:23)
  5. Dressed in Memories (2:19)
  6. Bolero Hyperbolic (3:20)
  7. Dodo (2:56)
  8. Water Time (4:07)
  9. The Sands Just Sigh (1:09)
  10. Cardiogram (2:12)
  11. There Play Children in the Flowering Meadow (2:44)
  12. Interwoven (4:28)
  13. Temptation (1:27)
  14. At the Top of Mt. Brocken (3:05)
  15. A Crack in a Lie (0:37)
  16. An Irregular Attack (3:56)
  17. Drifting (4:47)
  18. The Last Angel (3:09)

Tenko: vocal (1-12, 14, 16-18), noise guitar (2), guitar (7, 13), voice (15)
Kazutoki Umezu: reeds (8, 13, 14)
Wataru Okuma: piano (6), clarinet (11)
Yukihiro Isso: no-kan (3, 9, 12)
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables (1, 10, 15), noise guitar (2), tape (3, 5, 8, 17), guitar (7, 13), voice (10)
Tsuneo Imahori: guitar (2, 5, 6, 10, 14)
Kyoko Kuroda: piano (2, 12, 14)
Kenichi Takeda: taisho-koto (4, 11, 17)
Hideki Kato: fretless bass (3, 7, 18), electric bass (4, 6, 12, 14), accoustic bass (18)
Motoharu Yoshizawa: home-made electric vertical bass (3, 4, 12)
Lim Soowoong: spring noise (1)
Tatsuya Yoshida: drums (3, 6, 12, 14, 16), voice (16)

Recorded at GOK Sound in Tokyo, 1990 and 1991
Mastered by Masayuki Yamamoto and Kazunao Nagata
Cover art by Toshiko Tsuchihashi
Design by Toshio Tanaka
Produced by Tenko

Released in July 2001
Originally released in 1992 as a CD on the Swiss label Rec Rec Music