Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Peter Kowald

Duos: Europa-America-Japan

(Free Music Prodution, FMP CD 21) (Germany) (CD)

  1. Soeurbet Frereboise (3:51)
  2. Wind Arms (4:39)
  3. Straight Angles Suite (3:19)
  4. Throat I (4:45)
  5. Bein auf Stein (4:04)
  6. Growing Crazy (2:19)
  7. Serious Fun I (5:23)
  8. Wundenkönigin und Fühlebär (4:49)
  9. Birth of Signs (3:13)
  10. Genmai (3:24)
  11. Trollymog (2:31)
  12. The Further Float (4:19)
  13. Lost Lots (2:58)
  14. Giorgos Red (4:34)
  15. Diepe Spoeren (3:14)
  16. In These Last Days (3:48)
  17. Grüner Mori (4:08)
  18. Power without Power II (5:59)
  19. Riff Raff Go On (1:57)

Peter Kowald (bass) with:

  1. Joëlle Léandre (bass and voice)
  2. Seizan Matsuda (shakuhachi)
  3. Evan Parker (soprano sax)
  4. Diamanda Galas (voice)
  5. Conrad Bauer (trombone)
  6. Tom Cora (cello)
  7. Andrew Cyrille (drums and voice)
  8. Irène Schweizer (piano)
  9. Akira Sakata (alto sax)
  10. Masahiko Kono (trombone)
  11. Peter Brötzmann (tenor sax)
  12. Tadao Sawai (koto)
  13. Derek Bailey (guitar)
  14. Floros Floridis (clarinet)
  15. Han Bennink (drums)
  16. Jeanne Lee (voice)
  17. Keiki Midorikawa (cello)
  18. Junko Handa (biwa and voice)
  19. Danny Davis (alto sax)

Recorded on:
December 14, 1986 in Berlin (1, 8)
December 11, 1986 in Tokyo (2, 9)
August 16, 1987 in Berlin (3)
March 12, 1986 in Berlin (4)
August 12, 1989 in Berlin (5)
March 30, 1986 in New York (6, 7)
March 31, 1986 n New York (10)
June 29, 1986 in Berlin (11)
October 23, 1986 in Tokyo (12, 18, 19)
July 10, 1988 in Berlin (13)
February 1, 1989 in Athens (14)
July 9, 1988 in Berlin (15)
April 19, 1988 in New York (16)
October 7, 1986 in Tokyo (17)

Produced by Peter Kowald and Jost Gebers
Supervision Japan recordings by Teruto Soejima
Photography by Dagmar Gebers and others

Released in 1991