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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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)

The link is cancelled because of an individual inquiry.

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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Daimonji : "Improg"

(Poseidon/Musea, 2003)

1- Glimpse

2- Mongo lian bandits

3- Night dust

4- Ombre moned

Daimonji :

Hoppy Kamiyama : keyboards, vocal

Tatsuya Yoshida : drums, vocal

Nasuno Mitsuru : bass

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Good stuff !*#' (work in progress)

Hi,

I'd like to mention some excellent musical blogs with a few links towards other great records from Japan :

Yoshisaburo"Sabu" Toyozumi Unit : "The masterpiece" on inconstantsol : HERE

Kazutoki "Kappo" Umezu "Bamboo Village" on inconstantsol : HERE

Bidziliba (first record under the name Biziriba) on mutantsounds : HERE

Luna Park ensemble (with Wataru Ohkuma) on mutantsounds : HERE

Junji Hirose + Otomo Yoshihide ("Silanganan Ingay" lp) on mutantsounds : HERE

Live Under The Sky (Seiichi Yamamoto) : mutantsounds : HERE

Kazutoki Umezu "Pandora's Cocktail" on what'sinmyipod : HERE

Kazutoki Umezu "Eclecticism" on what'sinmyipod : HERE

Tipographica "God says I can't dance" on luckypsychichut : HERE

Doctor Umezu band "Eight Eyes and Eight Ears" on luckypsychichut : HERE

Kazutoki Umezu "First deserter" on luckypsychichut : HERE

Michihiro Sato "Rodan" on luckypsychichut : HERE

Dragon Blue (Tenko) "Hades park" on sector2814 : HERE

Altered States (with Otomo Yoshihide) "Lithuania & Estonia live" on sector2814 : HERE or on microphonesinthetrees : HERE

Tipographica "God Says I Can't Dance", "The Man Who Does Not Nod" (live) and "Floating opera" on lamusicaescultura : HERE

Kido Natsuki "Disco space baby !" on mutantsounds : HERE

Demi Semi Quaver "I" (with Katsui Yuji) on mutantsounds : HERE

Demi Semi Quaver "II" on sector2814 : HERE

Base Of Fiction "Kakusenjo No Ongaku" on mutantsounds : HERE

O.N.T.J. (with Hoppy Kamiyama) "Jose" on mutantsounds : HERE

Kazutoki Umezu + Tom Cora "Abandon" on wfmu : HERE

Rovo + Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden on mutantsounds : HERE

Optical*8 : "Gender"

(God Mountain, 1995)

1- Dare To Be "Uncool" (8:45)
2- Blessed Bloomer (7:56)
3- Otto Hypnosis (24:05)
4- Disposable Heros Do "Lunch" (8:41)

Optical*8 :

Hoppy Kamiyama: synthesizers, smaples, neuz-violin, gram-pot
Reck: bass, guitar
Yoshihide Otomo: guitar, turntables
Masafumi Minato: drums, toy steel drum

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Optical*8

(God Mountain, 1992)


1- Ambidextrousness
2- Undercover Man
3- Jungle Protects The Past
4- The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

OPTICAL*8 :

Hoppy Kamiyama--synth, samples & gram-pot
Marc Ribot--guitar
Sebastian Steinberg--bass
Dougie Bowne--drums
E.J. Rodriguez--percussion
Steve Eto--metals

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Optical*8 - "The last waltz from distorted Honky-Tonk"

(God Mountain, 1992)

1- The Last Waltz From Distorted Honky-Tonk (40:16)

OPTICAL*8 :

Hoppy Kamiyama--synth, samples & gram-pot
Marc Ribot--guitar
Sebastian Steinberg--bass
Dougie Bowne--drums
E.J. Rodriguez--percussion
Steve Eto--metals

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Electric Sun

(God Mountain, 1994)

1- Horizon (1:34)
2- The Count (5:45)
3- Life Insurance (4:04)
4- Rough (0:30)
5- Marmots (8:42)
6- I Fell Down (2:04)
7- Milk (3:37)
8- Earth in the Stew with Motherhood (3:58)
9- Fuzzy (0:59)
10- Magic Hands (16:52)
11- She (2:04)
12- Unplugged (2:41)

Electric Sun :

John King: guitars, vox, H-H
Hoppy Kamiyama: keyboards, sample, guitars, gram-pot
Yoshihide Otomo: turntable, guitars, shagg-drum
Hideki Kato: bass, metal, guitar
Hideo Yamaki: drums, bass
Yoichi Murata: trombone, kick

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Slut

(God Mountain, 1993)

1- Instant Fossil
2- Star Gazer
3- Brutal Transmitter
4- First Dimension
5- The Last Month Of Pregnancy
6- (Quiet) Tiny Lights
7- Curb
8- Slippery Baggy Shop
9- Too Much Nature
10- The World According To C.M.
11- Ballad Of Larry Parker
12- Evocation Of Venus
13- Continuation Of The Miracle
14- Broken Lizard
15- Incest Of Orange
16- De-Ja Vu (Sniff Me While I'm Sour)

The players are :

Bradford Reed

Elliott Sharp

Zeena Parkins

Steve Eto

Acheilux

Marc Ribot

Jane Scarpantoni

Marc Anthony Thompson (Chocolate Genius)

Hoppy Kamiyama

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U.M.A. (Ubiquitous Musicians Association) : "Ja-ck"

(Tokuma Japan, 2002)

1/ Nagare (U.M.A.) 10.50

2/ Wa (Sawai) 7.25

3/ Mizu (U.M.A.,Konda) 5.43

4/ Yen (Sawai) 12.20

5/ Minamoto (U.M.A.,Konda) 4.53

6/ Nagare (Remix Version) (U.M.A.) 6.14

7/ Ki (U.M.A.) 5.05

U.M.A. :

Genji Sawai : alto saxophone, soprano saxophone

Bill Laswell : bass

Hoppy Kamiyama : digital president, slide geisha, ass hole box, scum tape from garbage, klavier, gram pot

Hideo Yamaki : drums

Kiyoto Konda (3,5,6) : guitar

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Gessyoku - "Psychedelic kabuki"

(Art Sphere, 1994)

1 - Onna Ni Umarete Yokattawa (Glad To Be Born A Woman)
2 - Soushin Ashubin No Uta (The Song Of Soushin Ashubin)
3 - Dance For Ascetic Exercises
4 - Arujyuna & Rafura No Michiyuki (The Road For Arujyuna & Rafura)
5 - Maaradita Wo Tataeru Uta (A Song To Bless Maaradita)
6 - Song Of Night Goddess
7 - Otoko To Onna Ha Itsumademo Hitotu (Man And Woman Are Together Forever)
8 - Kono Fushigina Omoiha Nani (What Is This Incomprehensible Feeling)
9 - Onna Ni Umarete Yokattawa (Glad To Be Born A Woman)
10 - Happy Metempsychosis
11 - Song Of Docrine
12 - The Curtain Call
13 - Soushin Ashubin No Uta (Instrumental) (The Song Of Soushin Ashubin)

SUPER GOD MOUNTAIN ORCHESTRA :

Hoppy Kamiyama -- conductor, gram-pot, samples & vocal

Tadasu Yoshida -- drums, electric percussions & vocal

Jyoji Sawada -- electric bass, acoustic bass & vocal

Natsuki Kido -- guitar & vocal

Steve Eto -- percussion, metal & vocal

Kumiko Takara -- marimba, vibraphone, percussion & vocal

Junji Hirose -- sax, noise-machine & vocal

Yuji Katsui -- violin & vocal

+ Actors & vocalists : Kazuhiro Yamaji - Ken Osawa -Kazue Itoh -Masanori Ujigawa -Masayuki Oba -Shin Sugie -Tohru Nagasawa - Atsushi Yoshida -Hiromichi Kawakami

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ESP = Extra Sensory Perception

(Subconscious Label, 1995)

1 - Slur-XI (1:12)
2 - Mother Destruction (5:41)
3 - Destination (4:00)
4 - Idiot Tube (12:33)
5 - Suicide Ocean (1:56)
6 - Pilgrimage (3:06)
7 - Spatial Prophecy (2:36)
8 - A Slug on the Rug (12:16)
9 - El Dorado (4:03)

E.S.P. :

Hoppy Kamiyama: piano, prepared piano, synthesizer, samples, percussion, noiz-violin, ems, gram-pot

Kazuhisa Uchihashi: snake guitar

Kumiko Takara: vibraphone, percussion, toy piano, xylophone

Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion

Junji Hirose: saxes, self-made noise machine

Hiromichi Sakamoto: cello, electric cello, saw

Setsuko Chiba: voice

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Hoppy Kamiyama - "Ongaku-o 2: Welcome to Forbidden Paradise"

(Toshiba Emi, 1992)

1 - E.S.T. (Electric Shock Treatment) (2:36)
2 - PUMP (4:29)
3 - A.M. (0:29)
4 - My Dear Sight (8:16)
5 - Naomi's Dream (5:22)
6 - Obsession (3:58)
7 - Sarari Mambo (2:47)
8 - Sleepy Blind Lemon (2:20)
9 - Happy Valley (3:56)
10 - Alter of Heaven (3:37)
11 - Giant D'janzo (7:39)
12 - Jubilee (1:37)
13 - AU NATUREL (16:34)

Hoppy Kamiyama: keyboards (1-13), toys (1), samples (2-13), effects (3, 4, 6-10, 12, 13) piano (4, 10), talking (4), prepared piano (8), chorus (1, 9, 11), vocal (4, 7, 10, 11), acoustic guitar (7), Dobro (4, 7)
Marc Ribot: guitar (1, 2, 4-11, 13), charanquito (5), voice (6)
Sebastian Steinberg: bass (1, 2, 9, 11, 13), acoustic bass (4), talking (4), fretless bass (5), voice (9)
Dougie Bowne: drums (1, 2, 4, 9, 11, 13)
E.J. Rodriguez: percussion (1, 5, 9, 11, 13)
Steve Eto: toys (1), chorus (1, 9, 11), metal percussion (4), shaker (4), bottle drum (7), percussion (13)
John Zorn: sax (1, 3, 13)
Yuka Honda: toys (1)
Shun O'cima: toys (1), sax (9)
Yukari Iwamura: chorus (1, 9, 11)
Lorelei McBroom: chorus (1, 2), talking (1)
Jackie Collins: chorus (1, 2), talking (1)
Joey Young: chorus (1), talking (1), vocal (2)
Hirokaz: guitar (2, 11)
Syd Straw: voice (3), chorus (4, 10), vocal (5, 13)
Don Byron: clarinet (4)
Koichi Makigami: voice (9)
Jenifer Smith: voice (10)
Jane Scarpantoni: cello (10)
Yoshihide Otomo: turntables (13)

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Makigami Koichi - "Koroshi no blues"

(Toshiba Emi, 1992)

1- Saizansu Mambo (3:43)

2- Onna o Wasurero (4:45)

3- Machiboke no Kissaten (3:49)

4- Akunin Shigan (4:35)

5- Sukiyaki Étoufée (6:28)

6- Yozora no Fue (3:52)

7- Tokyo no Yane no Shita (10:01)

8- Kaettekita Yopparai (3:46)

9- Utsuro (3:03)

10- Marianne (7:50)

11- Koroshi no Blues (3:06)

1- Lyrics by Tony Tani and Tetsuo Miyagawa Music by Tadaosa Ohno Arranged by Koji Ueno.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Nami Tokyo: vocal Jazzy Joyce: turntables Andrew Sterman: piccolo Steven Bernstein: trumpet Pablo Calogero: baritone sax Marcus Persiani: piano Guillermo Edghill: bass Papo Pepin: congas Joe Gonzales: bongos, guiro, cowbell Raul Paonessa: drums

2- Lyrics by Toshio Nomura Music by Toru Funamura.
Koichi Makigami: vocal John Patton: organ Marc Ribot: guitar Jeff Hirshfield: drums

3- Lyrics and music by Raymond Hattori Arranged by Robert Quine.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Robert Quine: guitar Matthew Sweet: bass Steve Shelley: drums

4- Lyrics by Kayako Honoo Music by Riichiro Manabe Arranged by John Zorn.
Koichi Makigami: vocal, devil chanting Andy Haas: didjeridu Anthony Coleman: sampler, organ David Shea: turntables Mark Dresser: bass James Pugliese: percussion Keiji Haino: devil chanting Yoshihide Otomo: devil chanting Hideki Kato: devil chanting

5- Lyrics by Rokusuke Ei Music by Hachidai Nakamura Arranged by Guy Klucevsek.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Guy Klucevsek: piano, accordion Mark Feldman: violin David Hofstra: bass Robert Previte: drums

6- Lyrics and music by Kuranosuke Hamaguchi.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Laura Seaton: violin Jane Scarpantoni: cello David Shea: turntables

7- Lyrics by Takao Saeki Music by Ryoichi Hattori Arranged by Joe Gallant.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Joe Gallant: 6-string bass Janet Axelrod: flute Phillip Johnston: soprano sax Walter Thompson: alto sax Louie Belogenis: tenor sax Dave Sewelson: baritone sax Frank London: trumpet Steven Bernstein: trumpet Jason Hwang: violin Margo Grib: violin, voice Michelle Kinney: cello Dawn Buckholz: cello Elizabeth Panzer: harp Ann Klein: guitar Vito Ricci: synthesizer, wrench guitar Tom Judson: accordion Evan Gallagher: piano, organ Skip Reed: vibes, percussion David Hofstra: bass Dickie Dworkin: drums

8- Lyrics by The Folk Parody Gang Music by Kazuhiko Kato Arranged by Yoshihide Otomo.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Marc Ribot: acoustic guitar, charango Kyoko Kuroda: piano, voice, chorus Nana Vasconcelos: Brazilian percussion Yoshihide Otomo: turntables, handmade guitar, chorus Hideki Kato: bass, chorus Suzuki: chorus Uemura: chorus

9- Lyrics and Music by Koichi Makigami Arranged by Koichi Makigami.
Koichi Makigami: vocal, vision, proteus, sound canvas, cornet Hideki Kato: bass Nicolas Collins: "Barney"

10- Lyrics by Yasuko Aisawa Music by Yoshio Hayakawa.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Keiji Haino: guitar, vocal Painkiller : John Zorn: alto sax, vocal Bill Laswell: bass Mick Harris: drums, vocal

11- Lyrics by Hachiro Guru Music by Kagehisa Kuzui.
Koichi Makigami: vocal Marc Ribot: guitar Yoshihide Otomo: sampler Hoppy Kamiyama: killer

Produced by John Zorn

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