Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Eiichi Hayashi
Yoshihide Otomo
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi

The Crushed Pellet

(Studio Wee, SW302/303) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1: Névé

  1. Lunar Eclipse (9:06)
  2. Raw Weather (1:23)
  3. Cohimbre en Trinidad de Cuba (9:55)
  4. Museo Napoleonico (2:52)
  5. Corrupted Thing (1:38)
  6. Scorched Steel (6:44)
  7. Malachite (4:25)
  8. Fat Hanyu (1:48)
  9. Bitter Soup (5:37)
  10. Complexion (1:13)
  11. The Plank (7:05)
  12. Tumba de Che Guevara en Santa Clara (7:59)
  13. Monk Ren-in (5:39)
  14. Half Parallelogram (1:15)
  15. Twilight Garden (7:04)

Disc 2: Pro and Contra

  1. Cloud and Wire (3:19)
  2. Pipe Up (8:11)
  3. Walk in the Rain Forest (4:07)
  4. From Beyond (5:14)
  5. Lazy Gizmo (3:34)
  6. The Fog (6:26)
  7. Smoke and Head (1:15)
  8. The Moss (5:21)
  9. En Memoria de Takagi Mototeru (6:21)
  10. Cold Yawn (6:08)
  11. Dried Ligament (10:16)
  12. Under the Strife Tree (11:52)
  13. Rin Tai Hou (1:19)

Eiichi Hayashi: alto sax, soprano sax
Yoshihide Otomo: guitar, turntables, water-phone, small objects
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi: drums, percussion, erhu

Produced by Hiroaki Wakiya
Recorded at Gumbo Studio in Yokohama on January 15 and 16, 2003
Mixed at Gumbo Studio on February 19 and 24, 2003
Engineered by Shinji Kawase
Mastered by Hiroshi Shiota
Design by Tomoo Maruono
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English (translation by Corene Cook)

Released April 2003