Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

Summer Snow

A Film by Ann Hui

(a Kim Workshop/Sound Factory, STK003) (CD)

  1. * (0:59)
  2. Summer Snow (1:10)
  3. Ah-ngor's Theme (1:42)
  4. Lost March - City Version (1:10)
  5. * (1:52)
  6. The Thread Snaps (1:20)
  7. Left Behind (0:29)
  8. Lost March - Alternate Take (1:21)
  9. The Twilight Years (2:04)
  10. Speed Techno (1:43)
  11. Strange Japanese Dance Music (1:49)
  12. The Clam (1:24)
  13. Lost March - Town Version (1:37)
  14. To Live (0:33)
  15. Repose (0:43)
  16. * (0:56)
  17. Pigeons on the Roof (0:36)
  18. Ah-ngor's Theme - Reprise (2:08)

* traditional music from the film

All music by Yohishide Otomo, except track 10 by Otomo and Ikuo Shimizu; track 11 by Otomo, Yukihiro Isso, and Masahiro Uemura; and tracks 1, 5 and 16, which are traditional music from the film
Arrangements by Otomo, the musicians, and Ann Hui

Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar, sampler
Shuichi Chino: school organ, sampler
Osamu Matsumoto: trombone, bass trombone, euphonium
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: tenor sax, soprano sax
Kazuhisa Uchihashi: electric guitar, tenor ragged banjo
Masahiro Uemura: drums
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: djembe, cymbals

Guests:
Jim O'Rouke: electric guitar (2, 20)
Yukihiro Isso: shino-bue (12)
Masahiko Okura: Indian double reed pipe (14)
Ikuo Shimizu: drum machine (11)
Yoshimi: sampled voice: (11)
Aya: sampled voice (11)
Tam Sin-hung: singing (1, 5, 16) (from the film)

Recorded in November 1994 at Earth Studio, Tokyo by Naoaki Kose; and at P3 Art and Environment, and Lost Space, Tokyo by Otomo Yoshihide
Mixed in November 1994 at Earth Studio by Naoaki Kose; and at Lost Space by Otomo Yoshihide
Tape reproductions in December 1994 and March 1995 at GOK Sound, Tokyo
Edited in March 1995 by Otomo Yoshihide at Lost Space
Mastered in May 1995 by Jeffrey Chiu at Phantom Music Studio, Hong Kong

Produced by Kim Suzuki Kiyofumi
Design by Kim Suzuki Kiyofumi and Portia Wu
Includes liner notes by Otomo Yoshihide in English (translator: haruna ito) and Chinese (translator: Juliana Wong)

Released in 1995