Koichi Makigami & Ryoji Hojito : "Over that way"

(Long Arms, 2002)

1- A-OK (6:56)
2- Looking from Here (1:58)
3- That Way Knows Not (11:11)
4- The Truth of Two Tongues (3:14)
5- Song of the Unforeseeable (7:22)
6- History Lies Scattered About (2:38)
7- The Life of Neither Bird nor Frog (7:34)
8- A Japanese Trembling (2:01)
9- A Candid Legend of the Second Floor (8:49)
10- Language Always Crumbles (13:21)
11- Further That Way (2:47)

musicians :

Koichi Makigami: voice, mouth harp
Ryoji Hojito: piano, sound objects

recorded live at Dom on November 1, 2000 (during the voice festival Deep Throat or Dangerous Strings 2)

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Eiichi Hayashi & Mazuru

(Omagatoki, 1990)

1- Smoky god
2- Sky mirror
3- Cock wing
4- Big hole
5- Mazuru
6- Inside of the earth
7- Pentagon
8- Circle
9- Naadam

musicians :

Eiichi Hayashi : alto sax
Akihiro Ishiwatari : guitar
Tamio Kawabata : electric bass
Norikatsu Koreyasu : bass
Nobuo Fujii : drums
Takuji Kusumoto : drums

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Akihisa Tsuboy x Natsuki Kido duo = Era

(Poseidon)

1- Left window
2- 006
3- Crawler-A
4- Ripple
5- Seventeen
6- Foghone
7- New era has come

musicians :

Akihisa Tsuboy : violin
Natsuki Kido : guitar

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Katayama Hiroaki : "So-Kana"

(Omagatoki, 1992)

1- Drunkenstein
2- Nakama Ja Naika
3- Masu
4- Dinah
5- So-Kana
6- Santama sundown
7- Running back
8- Koutei

musicians :

Furusawa Ryojiro : drums, percussion
Mochizuki Hideaki : bass
Katoh Takayuki : guitar
Katayama Hiroaki : tenor sax

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Doctor Umezu Band (DUB) : "D"

(Omagatoki, 1986)

1- Mysterious tea

2- 17th kiss

3- Anatoria

4- We have many possibility

5- Let's drink

6- 1970

7- Surge

8- On a little boat to Aivalik

9- Teacher's runnin'

musicians :

Umezu Kazutoki : alto sax, flute, keyboards, etc.
Katayama Hiroaki : tenor & baritone sax, etc.
Hayakawa Takeharu : bass, cello, turkish saz, kalimba, etc.
Kikuchi Takashi : drums, tabura, percussion, etc.

guests :

Ishiwatari Akihiro : guitar (2,3,5,7,8,9)
Yamamoto Mayu : keyboards (6,7)
Miyazaki Masako : vocal (1)

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Audio Sports : "Strange emotion"

(All Access)

1- Yellow Fever - Ancient and Modern
2- Banana - Joy Mix
3- Strange Emotion
4- Deciding not to Decide
5- Knife
6- Never Personal

musicians :

Aki Onda (1-4, 6): samples, programming, producer & arranger
Hoppy Kamiyama: synthesizer, samples, gram-pot (1, 2, 4)
Tsuneo Imahori: guitar (1, 2, 4)
Mecken: bass (1, 4, 5)
Momo: additional synthesizer (1)
Greg Osby: sax (1, 4)
D-Zine: rap (2)
Jyoji Sawada (3): double bass, string arrangement
Yoichi Okabe: percussion (3, 5)
Miho Kudo: violin (3)
Hiroko Yanagawa: violin (3)
Ryoko Mochizuki: viola (3)
Naoya Mochizuki: cello (3)
Hubert Joignant: narration (3)
Vie Vie: voice (3)
Yutaka Ohara: bamboo horn (4)
Takahiro Hosoki: bass (5)
Kazutoki Umezu: sax (5)
Miki: vocal (5)
Yoshihide Otomo: guitar, turntables (6)
Aya: voice (6)

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A sweet treat... with Russia from love.

(No Man's Land)

1- #1 (19'26'')*
2- #2 (5'52'')

*live in 1997 at the Merge festival, Tokyo. This title contains three world famous russian songs and this suite is dedicated to the memory of russian "enfant terrible" & composer Sergey Kuryokhin (1954-1996).

musicians :

Leonid Soybelman : vocals, guitar, Casio rapman (1,2)
Otomo Yoshihide : turntables (1)
Umezu Kazutoki : sax & clarinet (1)
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro : drums & objects (1)
Sachiko M : sampler (2)

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