Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yoshihide Otomo

We Insist?

(Noise Asia, NASF 01 CD) (Hong Kong) (CD)

  1. We Insist?
    a. Rinko-Gun / b. X-Day (5:32)
  2. Replicant (4:52)
  3. Terminal-Zero (0:43)
  4. Xper. Xr. (0:33)
  5. Blackbird 1 (2:39)
  6. Watchtower Waltz (3:29)
  7. Film Maker from Kreuzberg (2:51)
  8. Chronicle (1:43)
  9. Quiet Fire at GOK (2:23)
  10. Cash Dispenser (4:52)
  11. Hardcore Chinese Opera (1:05)
  12. Techno (0:32)
  13. Crossover (0:25)
  14. Thrash (0:20)
  15. Death House (1:37)
  16. Acid Jazz (0:15)
  17. Psyche Punk (0:24)
  18. World Music (1:19)
  19. Be-Bop (1:03)
  20. Boundary (3:11)
  21. Last Words (3:40)
  22. Yuppie's Walk (1:11)
  23. Blackbird 2 (2:41)
  24. Walls (3:54)

Yoshihide Otomo: turntables, sampler, tapes, guitar
Eye Yamatsuka: vocal (3, 11, 19)
Hideki Kato: bass (6, 7, 20, 21, 23), vocal (15)
Junji Hirose: sax (1-b, 5, 6, 9, 14, 20)
Jun Numata (1-b): bass, vocal
Kenichi Saito: guitar (1-b)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (6, 7, 15, 20, 21)
Shuichi Chino (5-7, 20, 23): piano, sampler
Lim Soowoong (1-b): junk, vocal
Yoshiaki Kondo: mix (5-9, 15, 20, 23, 24)
John Zorn: sax (9, 14)

All music by Yoshihide Otomo, except tracks 3, 11 and 19, by Otomo and Eye Yamatsuka; and tracks 9 and 14, by Junji Hirose, John Zorn and Otomo

Track 1 composed for the theatre group Rinko-gun
Track 2 composed for the theatre group Replicant, and Xerox
Tracks 5-8, 10, 20, 22-24 originally recorded for the NHK BS TV special program Berlin daitanken, and remixed for this album

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound in Tokyo, 1992 (5-9, 15, 20, 23, 24), and Yoshihide Otomo at Lost Space in Tokyo, 1991-1992 (1-24)
Recorded live at Tokyo University in Komaba, Tokyo, 1988 (1-b)

Originally produced by Yoshihide Otomo and Sound Factory Records
Originally co-produced by Trigram
Re-produced by Yoshihide Otomo and Dickson Dee
Artwork directed by Hideaki Sasaki
Original design by Masahiko Nakamoto
Design by Hei Lee

Includes liner notes in English by Yoshihide Otomo (translation by Yoshiyuki Suzuki and Cathy Fishman)

Released August 2003
Originally released on Sound Factory Records (SFCD 003) in 1992