Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

Music(s)

(La Huit) (France) (2-DVD-R set)

(DVD: NTSC, region free)

Music(s) [A film by Guillaume Dero] (total time 49:42)

  1. Orange Was the Color of Her Dress--Tails Out (Charles Mingus--Otomo Yoshihide)
  2. Turntable (Otomo Yoshihide)
  3. Hat & Beard (Eric Dolphy)
  4. Theme from Canary (Otomo Yoshihide)
  5. Eureka (Jim O'Rourke)

Cinematography by Philippe Coutant
Sound recording by Sextan
Editing by Guillaume Dero
Sound mix by Jean-Marc Schick
Camera by Gilles Le Mao, Romain Pierrat, Christophe Michelet, Florian Bouchet, and Laurent Perrot
DVD Authoring by Adrien Troussel
Produced by Stephane Jourdain

Bonu(s) (total time 69:16)

  1. Song for Che (Charlie Haden)
  2. Orange Was the Color of Her Dress--Tails Out (Charles Mingus--Otomo Yoshihide)
  3. Soft Stuff (Otomo Yoshihide)
  4. Loud Stuff (Otomo Yoshihide)
  5. Gomen (Otomo Yoshihide)
  6. Misty (Erroll Garner)
  7. Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman)

"Orange Was the Color of Her Dress--Tails Out," "Hat & Beard," "Eureka," and "Song for Che":
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble (ONJE), live at the Banlieues Bleues Festival, Salle Jacques Brel, Pantin, France, March 15, 2005

Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble (ONJE)
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar
Kenta Tsugami: alto saxophone
Alfred Harth: tenor saxophone, trumpet
Sachiko M: sinewaves
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone
Hiroaki Mizutani: contrabass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, trumpet

"Turntable," "Soft Stuff," and "Loud Stuff":
Otomo Yoshihide guitar solo, live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, June 19, 2005

"Theme from Canary," "Gomen," "Misty," and "Lonely Woman":
Otomo Yoshihide turntable solo, live at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo, June 20, 2005

Released in 2006