Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yumiko Tanaka
Ivar Grydeland

Continental Crust

(Sofa, SOFA 517) (Norway) (CD)

  1. Downgoing Slab (2:59)
  2. Semi Rigid Lower Mantle (9:09)
  3. Young Oceanic Crust (12:00)
  4. Eurasian Plate (from 7 Different Views) (12:22)
  5. Mid-Atlantic Ridge (10:54)
  6. (4:58)

Music by Yumiko Tanaka and Ivar Grydeland; (5) includes an excerpt from the Gidayu-bushi "Hidakagawa Iriaizakura"

Yumiko Tanaka: futozao shamisen, taisho-goto, voice
Ivar Grydeland: acoustic guitar

Recorded by Ivar Grydeland at Bridge, Osaka, April 18, 2004
Produced by Ivar Grydeland and Yumiko Tanaka
Mastered by Thomas Hukkelberg
Cover design by Stoffer Ganes
Includes liner notes in English by Ivar Grydeland

Released in February 2005