Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Shun Sakai

Yonchome no Inu

(SS Label, RO-2005) (Japan) (CD)

  1. September Song (Maxwell Anderson / Kurt Weil) (7:49)
  2. Hong Kong Blues (Hoagy Carmichael) (5:56)
  3. Kogane no Hana (Osami Okamoto / Sadao China) (9:43)
  4. A Small-Day Tomorrow (Fran Landesman / Bob Dorough) (7:16)
  5. Yonchome no Inu (Ujo Noguchi / Nagayo Motoi) (2:52)
  6. Send in the Clowns (Stephen Sondheim) (5:58)
  7. Chattanooga Choo Choo (Harry Warren / Mack Gordon) (4:36)
  8. Amazing Grace (traditional) (11:24)
  9. Mangetsu no Yube (Takashi Nakagawa / Takashi Nakagawa & Hiroshi Yamaguchi) (6:32)
  10. The Way We Were (Marilyn Bergman / Marvin Hamlisch) (6:47)

Shun Sakai: vocal
Keisuke Ota: violin, electric violin, voice, cornet violin, megaphone
Kyoko Kuroda: piano, accordion
Takero Sekijima: tuba, tenor recorder, soprano recorder
Nao Takeuchi (2, 3, 7-10): tenor sax, flute

Recorded live at Shinjuku Pit Inn in Tokyo on September 14, 2000 (4-6); and Space Alta in Shinyokohama on December 15, 2000 (1-3, 7-10)
Engineered by Atsushi Tanaka
Mastered by Yukio Kojima
Photography by Seiichiro Inoue
Illustration by Kazue Mori
Design by Kazue Mori and Erica Tanabe
Produced by Shun Sakai

Released 2001