Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Guillotine Kyodai

Meetings with Remarkable Men Featuring Junji Hirose

(Guillotine Discs / Tag Rag Records, TRCD-026) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Meeting with Saxophones (Junji Hirose Solo 1) (2:06)
  2. Meeting with Yoichi Okabe (5:00)
  3. Meeting with Royal Squeezit (5:06)
  4. Meeting with Kirihito (3:38)
  5. Meeting with Yoshihide Otomo (1:55)
  6. Meeting with Dowzer (4:55)
  7. Meeting with Seiichi Yamamoto (4:13)
  8. Meeting with Syonosuke Ohkura (5:16)
  9. Meeting with Yoshinori Motoki (5:33)
  10. Meeting with Ruins (4:06)
  11. Meeting with Shuichi Chino (3:34)
  12. Meeting with Pill and Yuji Katsui (4:55)
  13. Meeting with Dub Squad (3:47)
  14. Meeting with SMI (Junji Hirose Solo 2) (2:23)
  15. Meeting with Remarkable Men (3:30)

Junji Hirose (1-15): sax, self-made instruments

with:

  1. Yoichi Okabe: sampler, percussion
  2. Royal Squeezit
    Emi Eleonola: piano, vocal
    Yuji Katsui: violin
  3. Kirihito
    Shunsuke Hayakawa: drums
    Ken Takehisa: guitar
  4. Yoshihide Otomo: turntable
  5. Dowzer
    Hiroyuki Nagashima: beat, voice, cue
    Masateru Terai: EMS, voice
  6. Seiichi Yamamoto
  7. Syonosuke Ohkura: taiko
  8. Yoshinori Motoki: jew's-harp, kalimba
  9. Ruins
    Tatsuya Yoshida: drums, vocal
    Hisashi Sasaki: bass, vocal
  10. Shuichi Chino: piano
  11. Pill: drums, cryout
    Yuji Katsui: violin, vocal
  12. Dub Squad
    Hiroshi Nakanishi: bass synthesizer, synthesizer, effects
    Taro Yamamoto: sampler, effects
    Tatsuki Masuko: beats, effects
  13. Guillotine Kyodai
    Guillotine Tiger (Hideaki Sasaki)
    Guillotine Jaguar (Yuji Katsui)

Produced by Guillotine Kyodai: Tiger (Hideaki Sasaki) and Jaguar (Yuji Katsui)
Recorded and mixed at GOK Sound by Yoshiaki Kondo and at Earth Studio by Tatsuki Masuko, except track 6, at GE Studio by Hiroyuki Nagashima; track 7, at Yamamoto Studio by Seiichi Yamamoto; track 9, at Sasazuka Museum by Guillotine Kyodai; and track 13, at Squadron Studio by Tatsuki Masuko
Mastered at Omega Sound by Tetsuya Kotani

Photography and art direction: Hideaki Sasaki
Artwork: Workshy-Oishi
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Romi Funamura and Yuji Katsui

Released November 2000