Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Smiling through My Teeth

(Sonic Arts Network) (UK) (CD)


  1. Spike Jones and His City Slickers - William Tell Overture (3:14)
  2. Raymond Scott - Girl at the Typewriter (2:50)
  3. Paul Lowry - I Got Rhythm (2:17)
  4. Leif Elggren & Thomas Liljenberg - 9.11 (Desperaton Is the Mother of Laughter) [edit] (2:53)
  5. Komar & Melamid and David Soldier - The Most Unwanted Song [edit] (1:54)
  6. Ground-Zero - China White (0:57)
    Ground-Zero: Otomo Yoshihide, Kato Hideki, Junji Hirose, and Shuichi Chino
    Guest: Eye Yamatsuka
    Originally released on the CD Ground-Zero, on God Mountain (GMCD 002)
  7. John Oswald - Pocket (3:16)
  8. Nurse With Wound - You Walrus Hurt the One You Love [edit] (1:04)
  9. Rudolf Eb.er's Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - Eel Dog Rap Mix [edit] (2:13)
  10. Nihilist Spasm Band - It's Not My Fault [edit] (0:27)
  11. "The Freddy McGuire Show" with Anne McGuire, Don Joyce & Wobbly - Dark Days Bright Nights (3:53)
  12. Vomit Lunchs - Total Pointless Guidance Mix (Stock, Hausen & Walkman) (4:00)
  13. Gorse - Interlude (0:07)
  14. Rank Sinatra - Take on Me (3:41)
  15. DJ Carhouse (Otomo Yoshihide) & MC Hellshit (Eye Yamatsuka) - Motha Fuck Mitsubishi (0:51)
    Originally released on DJ Carhouse/MC Hellshit CD Live!!, on Japan Overseas (JO96-24)
  16. DJ Brokenwindow - Kit Clayton vs. Roscoe P. Coltrane (2:55)
  17. Christian Marclay - Maria Callas (3:00)
  18. Viennese Seven Singing Sisters - William Tell Overture (2:35)
  19. M.A. Numminen, Tommi Parko, Pekka Kujanpää - Eleitä Kolmelle Röyhtäilijälle (1:55)
  20. Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device - Berlin, Germany, 270104 [edit] (3:17)
  21. Tomomi Adachi - Lippp (1:34)
  22. Bill Morrison - Single Breath Blow (1:02)
  23. Zatumba - Natchung (0:50)
  24. Nihilist Spasm Band - Going Too Far [edit] (1:11)
  25. People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - Air Hostess (7:21)
  26. Christian Bok - Ubu Hubbub (0:44)
  27. Gwilly Edmondez - Cock! (1:14)
  28. Spaz - Spaz (1:47)
  29. Komar & Melamid and David Soldier - The Most Unwanted Song [edit 2] (1:33)
  30. Xper. Xr. - Ride on Time (4:19)
  31. Richard Lair and Dave Soldier - Thai Elephant Orchestra Perform Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony First Movement (8:48)
  32. Nurse With Wound - You Walrus Hurt the One You Love [edit 2] (0:09)

Curated by Vicki Bennett
Mastered by Ian Stonehouse at Goldsmith's EMS, London
Design by Joerg Hartmannsgruber
Includes a 28-page booklet with liner notes in English by Vicki Bennett and an essay in English by Kembrew McLeod, and drawings

Released in 2008