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Cult Junk Cafe

Cult Junk Cafe

(Gentle Giant, GGCD 002) (CD)

  1. Morning Train Ritual (Ode to the Japanese Salary Man and Student) (6:31)
  2. Eigo ga jozu desu ne Part 1 (1:11)
  3. Nyarome from Earth (0:48)
  4. 114 (3:12)
  5. Upper Middle Hometown (2:28)
  6. Eigo ga jozu desu ne Part 2 (0:49)
  7. Can Jimmy Come Out and Play? (5:36)
  8. Genki Drink (1:08)
  9. Renalism (6:02)
  10. If You Drop Something... (3:44)
  11. Return of Nyarome (0:47)
  12. Re-entry Permit (2:06)
  13. A Man from North (5:25)

Cult Junk Cafe:
Kyota Yoshigami: guitar, buzz box
Yasuhiro Ohtani: guitar, sgx 2000
Kazutaka Sakamoto: piano, dx-7
Tsuguto Tsunoda: turntables, samples
Michael Hartman: drums

Guest:
Yoshihide Otomo (1, 3, 5, 8. 9, 11, 12): hand-made guitar, 6-string bass

Additional sounds by Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit, and Michael Hartman (4)
Extra junk by Tsuguto Tsunoda, Yasuhiro Ohtani, Michael Hartman, Jin Sato, Miyuki Kodama, and Junco Okada (7)
Sampled voices by Tomomi Adachi (3, 11), Ami Yoshida (3, 9, 11), and Rena Kobayashi (9)

Recorded at Earth Studio by Naoaki Kose on February 25, 1996
Mixed at Western Sound Stuidos by Todd Carter and Michael Hartman on March 21-23, 1996
Design: Thomas Deater and Michael Hartman

Released 1996