Osamu Matsumoto : "Wahoo"

(LoveDog, 2002)

1-Sora ni Keii, Chi niwa Doku, Kokoro ni Heiwa (5:10)
2-Kosaten no Muko (8:02)
3-Sakuso suru Jiga (3:02)
4-Wahoo (6:00)
5-Ido suru Mojiban (5:48)
6-1963 (7:06)
7-Tasogare no Vaudeville (6:08)
8-Ninjin, Gobo, Hakusai (2:41)

musicians :

Osamu Matsumoto (1-8): trombones, pianica, voice, euphonium
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (1-7): drums, percussion, voice
Kumiko Takara (1, 2, 4-7): percussions, marimba, vibraphone, voice
Hiroaki Mizutani (1, 2, 4-7): contrabass, electric bass, voice

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Hoppy Kamiyama : "A meaningful meaningnessless"

(Creage, 2005)

1-Risqué Business
2-Looper Dooper
3-Schmaltz # 1
4-U-Tan (To Tell a Pack of Lies)
5-Kali d'Amour
6-Pwd (To Cast Pears Before Swine)
7-Knock on Food
8-Fountain of Love
9-Ol' Lady Grubb
10-Spasm # 2
11-To Make a Hit
12-Everyday I Have the Bruise
13-A Meaningful Meaningnessless
14-A Bolt From the Blue

musicians :

Hoppy Kamiyama : digital president, slide geisha, vocal, gram-pot
Tatsuya Yoshida : drums, percussions, vocal
Natsuki Kido : guitar
Mitsuru Nasuno : bass
Kumiko Takara : marimba, vibraphone, percussions
Wacho : percussions
Osamu Matsumoto : trombone
Masakuni Takeno : sax, flute, clarinet
Masahiko Sugasaka : trumpet
L?K?O : turntable
Tomoyuki Asakawa : harp
Takero Sekijima : tuba
Dennis Gunn : narration, vocal
Yutaka Fukuoka : vocal
Emi Eleonola : vocal
Aki Kubota : vocal
Keisuke Ohta : vocal
Great Eida strings
Tomzuin H : manipulation, keyboards (7,9)

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Chipfarm : Optical 8 + Melt Banana + Elliott Sharp + Zeena Parkins

(God Mountain)

1- Trash or Not?
2- Spynetwork
3- Carps & Crows
4- Uknown Mix-2
5- Invisible Thread
6- Yes, We're! 1
7- Blunberbus
8- Hurry Sundown 1
9- Hurry Sundown 2
10- Where the Sidewalk Ends
11- Plot Cake
12- Grenstale No.13
13- Yes, We're! 2
14- Vilnius-3
15- Banana Fiction
16- Switch
17- Whirlpool
18- Noh Surf
19- Ritty
20- Melt-Lemon-3

Optical-8 (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 19) :

Hoppy Kamiyama (12, 14): synthesizers, samples, electric-violin, tapes, gram-pot
Yoshihide Otomo (4, 12, 14, 20): guitar, turntables
Reck (20): bass
Masafumi Minato (14, 20): drums

Melt Banana (1, 11, 15) :

YaSuKo O.: vocal
Agata: guitar
Rika mm': bass
Toshiaki Sudoh: drums

Elliot Sharp (1-3, 5-19): doubleneck guitarbass, sustainer guitar, soprano sax, samples
Zeena Parkins (1-13, 15-19): electric harp, melodica, voice, samples, tapes

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo in November 1994

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Takeharu Hayakawa : "Hayakawa"

(Omagatoki, 1996)

1- Genbu
2- Flying head
3- The sea of Pterosaurs
4- One more cup of coffee (Bob Dylan)
5- Tsuchigumo
6- Sixfold spirals
7- Wormhole
8- Masakomasa shuffle

musicians :

Hayakawa Takeharu : basses, cello
Ishii Youji : guitar (1,2,3,5,6,8)
Hashimoto Jun : guitar (1,2,3,5,6,8)
Fujii Nobuo : drums (1,2,3,5,6,7,8)
Suzuki Hirofumi : percussion (3,4)

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Seikatsu Kojo Linkai orchestra : "Dance dance dance"

(Union, 1980)

1. Sail along silv'ry moon
2. Wanaoki
3. A night in Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie)
4. Take the « A » train (Billy Strayhorn)
5. Shackin' to me
6. St Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
7. Kaika nitai/Hentai nana byoshi/Uwasa no seikoui

musicians :

Kazutoki « Kappo » Umezu (as, cl, b-cl, yokobue, cho, vo, perc)
Hiroaki Katayama (ts, bs, as, cho, vo, perc)
Hiroshi "Manmos" Itaya (tb, vo, cho, perc)
Haruki Satoh (tb, a-hｒ, cho, vo, perc)
Shinji "Moh" Yasuda (tp, cho, vo, perc)
Yoriyuki Harada (pf, el-p, org, syn, ss, cl, vo)
Takeharu "Low-Rider" Hayakawa (el-b, vc, cho, vo)
Kenichi Kameyama (ds, perc, vo)
Takashi Kikuchi (ds, perc, cho, vo)

Genji Sawai : producer

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Seikatsu Kojo Linkai orchestra : "This is music is this !?"

(Union, 1979)

1. Yasudabushi
2. Take The « A » Train
3. Aketaketa march/African elephant
4. Youngmen Insist

Musicians :

Kazutoki « Kappo » Umezu (as, ss, bcl)
Hiroaki Katayama (ts, bs)
Masami Shinoda (as, fl)
Junji Mori (as)
Shinji Yasuda (tp)
Tetsuji Yoshida (tp)
Hiroshi Itaya (tb)
Haruki Sato (tb)
Yoriyuki « Leo » Harada (p, cong)
Tsutomu Numagami (b)
Takeharu Hayakawa (b, cel)
Kenichi Kameyama (ds)
Takashi Kikuchi (ds, per)

Genji Sawai : producer

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Ruins : "Live in Guang Zhou - China"

(Noise Asia, 2002)

1. Nivaftopoftz
2. Shi Zai Guang Zhou
3. Jallamjikko
4. I Ate Yue Bing This Morning
5. Dagdad
6. Schvostess
7. Eating 7 Kinds Of Chang Fen Was Too Much
8. Hyderomastgroningem
9. Snare
10. Kippssidamn
11. Progressive Rock Medley
12. Questzalcoatl
13. Korromda Peimm
14. Yawiquo
15. Classical Music Medley
16. Del Fanci Kant
17. Gharaviss Perrdoh
18. Bupphairodazz
19. Improvisation

Ruins :

Sasaki Hisashi : bass & vocals
Yoshida Tatsuya : drums & vocals

+ Wong Lei : vocals on track 19

recorded live on 13/08/2000 at Windflower Bar GZ, China.

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