Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

We Insist?

(Sound Factory Records, SFCD 003) (Hong Kong) (CD)

  1. We Insist?
    a. Rinko-Gun / b. X-Day (5:32)
  2. Replicant (4:52)
  3. Terminal-Zero (0:43)
  4. Xper. Xr. (0:33)
  5. Blackbird 1 (2:39)
  6. Watchtower Waltz (3:29)
  7. Film Maker from Kreuzberg (2:51)
  8. Chronicle (1:43)
  9. Quiet Fire at GOK (2:23)
  10. Cash Dispenser (4:52)
  11. Hardcore Chinese Opera (1:05)
  12. Techno (0:32)
  13. Crossover (0:25)
  14. Thrash (0:20)
  15. Death House (1:37)
  16. Acid Jazz (0:15)
  17. Psyche Punk (0:24)
  18. World Music (1:19)
  19. Be-bop (1:03)
  20. Boundary (3:11)
  21. Last Words (3:40)
  22. Yuppie's Walk (1:11)
  23. Blackbird 2 (2:41)
  24. Walls (3:54)

Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, sampler, tapes, guitar
Eye Yamatsuka: vocal (3, 11, 19)
Hideki Kato: bass (6, 7, 20, 21, 23), vocal (15)
Junji Hirose: sax (1-b, 5, 6, 9, 14, 20)
Jun Numata (1-b): bass, vocal
Kenichi Saito: guitar (1-b)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (6, 7, 15, 20, 21)
Shuichi Chino (5-7, 20, 23): piano, sampler
Lim Soowoong (1-b): junk, vocal
Yoshiaki Kondo: mix (5-9, 15, 20, 23, 24)
John Zorn: sax (9, 14)

All music by Otomo Yoshihide, except tracks 3, 11 and 19, by Otomo and Eye Yamatsuka; and tracks 9 and 14, by Junji Hirose, John Zorn and Otomo

Track 1 composed for the theatre group Rinko-gun
Track 2 composed for the theatre group Replicant, and Xerox
Tracks 5-8, 10, 20, 22-24 originally recorded for the NHK BS TV special program Berlin daitanken, and remixed for this album

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound in Tokyo, 1992 (5-9, 15, 20, 23, 24), and Otomo Yoshihide at Lost Space in Tokyo, 1991-1992 (1-24)
Recorded live at Tokyo University in Komaba, Tokyo, 1988 (1-b)

Produced by Otomo Yoshihide and Sound Factory Records
Co-produced by Trigram
Artwork directed by Hideaki Sasaki
Designed by Masahiko Nakamoto

Includes liner notes by Otomo Yoshihide (in Japanese, English, and Chinese)

Released in 1992