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Tenko

At the Top of Mt. Brocken

(RecRec, ReCDec 48) (Switzerland) (CD)

  1. Blue Heat (4:22)
  2. Moonlight Waltz (5:01)
  3. If I... (3:04)
  4. A Piece of Silence (8:05)
  5. Dressed in Memories (2:11)
  6. Bolero Hyperbolic (3:02)
  7. Dodo (2:46)
  8. Water Hours (3:57)
  9. The Sands Just Sigh (1:03)
  10. Cardiogram (2:07)
  11. There Play Children in the Flowering Meadow (2:35)
  12. Interwoven (4:16)
  13. Temptation (1:22)
  14. At the Top of Mt. Brocken (2:55)
  15. A Crack in a Lie (0:33)
  16. An Irregular Attack (3:42)
  17. Drifting (4:34)
  18. The Last Angel (3:04)

Tenko: vocal (1-12, 14, 16-18), noise guitar (2), guitar (7, 13), voice (15)
Kazutoki Umezu: reeds (8, 13, 14)
Wataru Okuma: piano (6), clarinet (11)
Yukihiro Isso: no-kan (3, 9, 12)
Yoshihide Otomo: turntables (1, 10, 15), noise guitar (2), tape (3, 5, 8, 17), guitar (7, 13), voice (10)
Tsuneo Imahori: guitar (2, 5, 6, 10, 14)
Kyoko Kuroda: piano (2, 12, 14)
Kenichi Takeda: taisho-koto (4, 11, 17)
Hideki Kato: fretless bass (3, 7, 18), electric bass (4, 6, 12, 14), accoustic bass (18)
Motoharu Yoshizawa: home-made electric vertical bass (3, 4, 12)
Lim Soowoong: spring noise (1)
Tatsuya Yoshida: drums (3, 6, 12, 14, 16), voice (16)

Recorded at GOK Sound in Tokyo, 1990 and 1991
Cover art: Toshiko Tsuchihashi
Photography: Nobuyoshi Araki
Produced by Tenko

Released 1992