Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Satomi Matsumoto

Bronze & Willow

(Zipangu, ZIP-0027) (Japan) (book + CD)

Book

63 pages, full-color; includes photos of 82 etchings and two 3D works; first 1,500 copies include 1 signed, numbered etching

All etchings and objects by Satomi Matsumoto
Photos by Shinichi Honda
Art direction by Takahiro Eguchi
Design by Fuyumi Obata

CD

  1. Weeping Willow (3:06)
  2. Lovely Gravy (4:26)
  3. Kuruma to Kaban (4:09)
  4. Mollie Gong no Issho (4:07)
  5. In the Mousse (1:04)
  6. Asa no Tsuki No. 5 (1:56)
  7. Kaseki o Mita Kai? (4:00)
  8. Wonder in Winter (4:21)
  9. Tango with Bear (1:17)
  10. Eel Pie Island Song (6:00)
  11. Hibari (4:46)
  12. Antonio no Tamago (4:46)
  13. Wedding Tune (3:48)
  14. Mabushii Chocolate (3:03)

All music and lyrics by Satomi Matsumoto except Track 1 English lyrics (traditional); and Track 14 lyrics (by Eiichi Tsutaki and Satomi Matsumoto)

Satomi Matsumoto: vocal (1-4, 6-8, 10-14), electric guitar (1-4, 6-8, 10-12, 14)
Mitsuru Nasuno: electric bass (2-4), moogerfooger (3)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (2-4)
Tatsuo Kondo: electric organ (3, 4), theremin (3), analog synthesizer (3), programming (5, 9), glockenspiel (8), clarinet (8), percussion (10), arrangement (12, 13), andes 25 (13), rhythm programming (14)
Takero Sekijima: horn arrangement (7), tuba (7, 10), flugelhorn (7, 10), sampled flugelhorn (7), soprano recorder (8)
Yuriko Mukojima: violin (6), viola (8)
Oh Akioka: cavaquinho (6), bandolim (8)
Takuma Makino: electric guitar (10)
Kazuo Imai: electric guitar (11)

Antonio DeNiro: beans in willow basket trunk (12)
Punch & DeNiro: hand clapping (14)

Freylekh Jamboree (12, 13)
Nobuyuki Seto: clarinet
Kazunari Seto: trumpet
Kazumi Shiraki: alto saxophone
Tomoyuki Mihara: trombone
Ryoko Yamaguchi: violin
Sachie Fujisawa: accordion
Mitsuji Kawamura: tuba
Picari Ota: drums

Recorded, mixed, and mastered in Tokyo in May and August-October 2007
Recorded by Noh Sujeong at Studio 246, by Tatsuo Kondo at Monnaka Tenjo Hall and Snail Shell, and by Takero Sekijima in his room
Mixed by Tatsuo Kondo at Snail Shell
Mastered by Tsutomu Suto at Morgue-sha
Produced by Tatsuo Kondo and Shigenori Noda

Produced by Shigenori Noda

Released in November 2007