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Experimental Music Concert

Experimental Music Concert 2

(Slub Music, SMCD 24; Kenjitzu Records, KJT02; l-e, l-e02) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Repeatable (7:56)
  2. Triangle Quartet (10:11)
  3. A Section Which Appears When a Line Is Cut off Becomes a Point (9:29)
  4. Oikoi (4:48)
  5. Tokyo Oct. 2016 (4:25)
  6. Grasses (12:05)
  7. Harmonies (5:55)

Composed by Mamoru Nakajo (1), Masayuki Takano (2, 4), Toshihisa Hirano (3), Hisayo Kobayashi (5), and Hirohiko Yamada (6, 7)
Words by Masayuki Takano (4)

Experimental Music Concert
Atsushi Yonemoto: unamplified electric guitar (1)
Hirohiko Yamada: unamplified electric guitar (1), synthesizer (5), conductor (6)
Hisayo Kobayashi: bottled water (1), conductor (5)
Mamoru Nakajo: metronome (1), co-conductor (5)
Masayuki Takano: triangle (1), conductor (2), direction (4), co-conductor (5)
Toshihisa Hirano: synthesizer (1), electric guitar (3, 5)

Guests
Hikaru Yamada: alto saxophone (1), water measurement (5)
Ikuhiro Yamagata: voice (1, 4), triangle (2), water measurement (5)
Yoko Ikeda: viola (1, 5, 6), triangle (2)
Tetuzi Akiyama: unamplified electric guitar (1), triangle (2), electric guitar (3, 5, 6)
Taku Sugimoto: bowed guitar (1), tuning (3), electric guitar (5)
Wakana Ikeda: flute (5, 6)

Produced by Taku Sugimoto
Recorded by Taku Sugimoto at l-e, Tokyo, December 4, 2016, except track 7, recorded in Daizawa, Tokyo, March 31, 2017
Mastered by Toshihisa Hirano and Hirohiko Yamada
Cover art by Masayuki Takano
Cover design by Koichiro Someno
Includes an insert with scores and liner notes by Wakana Ikeda, Yoko Ikeda, and Masayuki Takano in Japanese and English (English translation by Atsushi Yonemoto)

Released in December 2017