Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Insight

(Xing-Wu Records, XWU5001CD) (Malaysia) (2-CD set)

Disc One

  1. Climax Golden Twins - Relinquish (4:47)

  2. Reynols - Rasoyo Jisos Repuliom Alfrazado (6:06)
    Originally recorded at Ornitivo Studios, Buenos Aires, June 1999
    Remixed and mastered at Mofifero Studios, Buenos Aires, April 2002
    Originally released in 2002
    Reynols
    Miguel Tomasin: cachubo drums, voice, psychic fzzz
    Moncho Conlazo: electric guitar, marmonio mogal
    Anla Courtis: electric guitar, rovelio concinado

  3. Toshimaru Nakamura - Preset #4 (NIMB #28) (7:18)
    Performed and recorded in January 2002
    Toshimaru Nakamura: internal feedback from "no-input mixing board"

  4. Zai De - Ni-Be (6:38)
    Recorded live at the Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    Zai De
    Yandsen: broken bass amp, bass guitar
    Tham Kar Mun: analog synthesizer, devices, electronics
    Yin Pin: self-made instruments, microphones, four-track, guitar
    Alex Lam: rambling

  5. Volcano the Bear - Clayslaps (6:01)

  6. Yandsen - Jargon (6:00)

  7. Tetuzi Akiyama - Sword (5:52)
    Tetuzi Akiyama: dobro
    Recorded and pre-mastered by Amephone on July 8, 2002

  8. Thuja - Untitled (4:39)
    Thuja
    Loren Chasse
    Stephen R. Smith
    Glenn Donaldson
    Rob Reger

  9. Carl Stone - Swad (4:07)
    Realized in the sound studios of Chukyo University, Japan

  10. Tham Kar Mun - Copula (6:12)
    Tham Kar Mun: wood, glass, pen, pencil, container, paper

  11. Oren Ambarchi - Freeze Out (8:30)

  12. Eric La Casa - S'ombre Part 3 (3:13)

Disc Two

  1. Jeph Jerman - Grackles (5:43)

  2. Loren Chasse - Script Lichen (4:02)

  3. Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, and Dan Warburton - Music Station (5:36)
    Improvised live in Pré Saint-Gervais Métro station, Paris
    Eric La Casa: microphones
    Jean-Luc Guionnet: saxophone
    Dan Warburton: violin

  4. Taku Sugimoto - Bells 2 (6:07)
    Recorded at Studio Che in July 2002
    Taku Sugimoto: composition and guitar

  5. Yin Pin - Psalm 3:4 (6:42)
    Conceived in 1998
    Yin Pin: pedal, objects, guitar

  6. Axel Dörner - Marchlai (7:56)
    Axel Dörner: acoustic trumpet

  7. Anthony Pateras and David Brown - Duet (4:10)
    Anthony Pateras: prepared piano
    David Brown: semi-acoustic guitar

  8. Janek Schaefer - Maison A Bordeaux (9:15)

  9. Andrea Neumann - Innenklavier (3:15)
    Recorded at Papelallee 5 in March 2003
    Transferred from MD to CD by Hanno Leichtmann at Static Lab, Berlin
    Andrea Neumann: inside piano, mixing desk

  10. Yannick Dauby - Formless Walking (5:41)

  11. Matt Shoemaker - Pantai Ayu (5:56)

  12. MNortham - Epidermal Filigree (5:40)
    Recorded in July 2003

  13. Lee Kwang - Stormy Weather (4:33)

Graphic design by Murphy Ong
Illustration by Yong Ching Sui

Released in March 2004