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Teiji Ito

Music for Maya: Early Film Music of Teiji Ito

(Tzadik, TZ 8038-2) (U.S.) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Lights along the Way - India [1959] (5:07)
  2. Meshes of the Afternoon [1959] (12:54)
  3. Lights along the Way - Java/Korea [1959] (7:38)
  4. The Very Eye of Night [1952] (13:07)
  5. Lights along the Way - China [1959] (5:58)

    Maeva [1961]
  6. Search for Love/Rape Scene (8:38)
  7. Return to Tahiti (14:11)
  8. True Love Found (2:35)

Disc 2

  1. Dwightiana [1959] (3:25)
  2. Bagatelle for Willard Maas [1961] (5:22)
  3. Moonplay [1961] (4:13)
  4. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger [1961] (4:51)
  5. Operation Hourglass - Diesel Engine [1956] (2:37)
  6. Water Music Study [1967] (6:39)
  7. Orgia [1967] (11:34)
  8. The Language of Faces [1961] (9:37)
  9. The Language of Faces [1961] (4:37)
  10. Works of Matisse [1959] (4:57)
  11. Handwritten [1959] (2:14)
  12. Lifelines [1960] (6:47)

All music composed and performed by Teiji Ito

Recorded by Teiji Ito in the studio he shared with Maya Deren, New York City
Produced by John Zorn
Mastered by Scott Hull
Design by Chippy
Includes a 16-page booklet with liner notes in English by John Zorn, photos, track notes, and the transcription of a 1953 interview of Teiji Ito by Maya Deren

Released in August 2007
Tracks 2 and 4 of Disc 1 originally released in 1996 on ¿What Next?