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Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble

Live at Dacapo in Bremen '93

(d'c records, d'c 1) (Germany) (CD)


  1. Homura (Tadao Sawai) (14:29)
  2. Aoku (Hideaki Kuribayashi) (8:50)
  3. Iris of Time, Part 2: A River of Time (Akira Nishimura) (9:01)
  4. Midare (Yatsuhashi Kengyo) (10:23)
  5. The Wind Is Calling Me Outside (Yuji Takahashi) (11:32)
  6. 4'33" (John Cage) (5:04)

Kazue Sawai Koto Ensemble:
Kazue Sawai: koto (2, 4), 17-string koto (1, 3, 6), 3-string koto (5), recitation (5)
Izumi Yamamoto: koto (1-3, 6)
Chiori Shimizu: koto (1-3, 6)
Naoko Kikuchi: koto (1-3, 6)
Yuko Noguchi: koto (1-3, 6)
Michiyo Yagi: koto (1, 2 , 6), 17-string koto (3)
Miki Maruta: koto (1-3, 6)

Recorded live at 274. DACAPO-concert at Galerie Katrin Rabus in Bremen, June 1993 by Eberhard Schnellen
Edited by Karola Parry
Design: Hartmut Brückner
Produced by Ingo Ahmels

Released 1993