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Uta wo Sagashite

Live at Pole Pole Za

(Travessia, TRV-010) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Kawa no Hajimari (6:15)
  2. Ksenitis (7:14)
  3. Kyo wa Watashi no Hi (6:56)
  4. Watashi no Hana (5:41)
  5. Aah, Selim (5:17)
  6. Me wo Tojite (5:37)
  7. Kanshu San (7:16)
  8. Kiri no Naka no Hukei (9:06)
  9. O Gloriosa Domina (5:13)
  10. Gururioza (3:42)
  11. Kaze ga Omote de Yondeiru--Param (3:59)
  12. Hikari Shizukeki (9:09)

All music by Tetsu Saitoh, except track 9 (an old Spanish Gregorian chant) and track 10 (a prayer by underground Christians on Ikitsuki Island, Nagasaki Prefecture)
Words on tracks 1-8 taken from Theodoros Angelopoulos' movies Eternity and a Day, Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, and Landscape in the Mist (Japanese translation by Natsuki Ikezawa)
Words by Kenji Miyazawa (11) and Chie Inui (12)

Uta wo Sagashite
Tetsu Saitoh: contrabass
Naoki Kita: violin
Junko Satoh: vocal

Recorded live by Hiroshi Ogawa at PolePole-za, Tokyo, November 30, 2011
Mastered by Nao Nishihara
Design by Yusuke Ohashi
Includes liner notes and track notes by Tetsu Saitoh (in Japanese)

Released in February 2012