Otomo Yoshihide/Bob Ostertag : "Twins !"

(Sank-Ohso discs, 1996)

1- Wacked/ Herb Robertson (parent) (3:58)
2- Exercises for Currency/ Otomo Yoshihide (twin) (6:51)
3- 3 Bear Rooms (Dust)/ Chris Cutler (parent) (4:42)
4- The Power of Success/ Bob Ostertag (twin) (5:44)
5- Fruits from Viet Nam/ Michiyo Yagi (parent) (3:55)
6- 4 Rooms of Hong Kong Stuntman/ Otomo Yoshihide (twin) (6:35)
7- You're Going Nowhere/ Bob Ostertag (twin) (5:28)
8- Tabbing Will Get You There Faster/ Bob Ostertag (twin) (5:08)
9- Otok/ Otomo Yoshihide (twin) (6:23)

Track 1 :
Herb Roberson : trumpet (this trumpet solo was performed plunger muted)
Tracks 2, 6, 9 :
Otomo Yoshihide : sampler and hard-disk recorder. Sampled guests: Sachiko Matsubara (voice-2; sampling materials-6), Yumiko Tanaka (shamisen and vocal-6), Shuichi Chino (piano-6)
Track 3 :
Chris Cutler : gongs, tubular bell, kit drums, Tibetan finger cymbals, clay drum, woodblock, tambourine and radio
Tracks 4, 7, 8 :
Bob Ostertag : sampler
Track 5 :
Michiyo Yagi : koto

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Tohban Djan : "Poison petal"

(Nato)

1/ Icicle Tango 2:45
2/ Rice & Beans 3:42
3/ Asobi 4:03
4/ The Whispers Beyond 3:52
5/ Shangai Express 2:53
6/ 21 Nails 3:27
7/ Black 2:29
8/ Lame Talking 2:31
9/ Butterfly 1:41
10/ Song For Deep Water 1:40
11/ No Time 1:02
12/ Belladonna 6:42

recorded at Sorcerer Studio, New York City in 1988

Tohban Djan :

Luli Shioi : vocals, bass, melodion, piano
Ikue Mori : drums, DMS, voice

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Doctor Umezu band : "Do-Guwaw !"

(News records, 1984)

1- Bumpy mountain on the back

2- Munoo

3- Tang tango

4- The cramp

5- Crocodile by starlight

6- 800 ton

musicians :

Kazutoki UMEZU : sax
Hiroaki KATAYAMA : sax

Takeharu HAYAKAWA : bass

Takashi KIKUCHI : drums

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Doctor Umezu band : "Danger"

(London, 1982)

1- Pop Up
2- Melody
3- Nande Nande Nande
4- Red Hippopotamus in the Sunset
5- Thymol
6- Dance Party
7- I'm No Good
8- Ojo-San

musicians :

Kazutoki Umezu : sax, clarinet
Takeharu Hayakawa : bass
Hiroaki Katayama : sax
Takashi Kikuchi : drums
+ Kiyoshiro Imawano (RC Succession) : guitar, Vocal

special guest :

G2 : percussion (4), piano (6, 8)

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Doctor Umezu band : "Dynamite"

(London Records, 1983)

1- Off the Door
2- Down Down !
3- In My Shoes
4- Jayne (Ornette Coleman)
5- Canal
6- Coffee Music
7- Pyrosis
8- Pretty Kranke
9- Dynamite

musicians :

Kazutoki Umezu : sax
Hiroaki Katayama : sax
Takeharu Hayakawa : bass
Takashi Kikuchi : drums

guests :

Fred Frith : guitar/violin
Terry Jenoure : vocal

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Autonomous Zone : "The map is not the territory"

(Meldac, 1992)

1. Invoke 6.26
2. Lost Dimension 6.03
3. The Grey Room 5.34
4. Black Light 6.57
5. The Hollow Earth 5.47
6. Chaos Field 6.57

Musicians :

Ginger Baker (1,4): drums
Anton Fier: drums, drum machine, percussion
Hideo Yamaki: drum machine, drums, balaphone, percussion
Foday Musa Suso: kora, talking drum, vocals
Bill Laswell: bass
Toshinori Kondo: trumpet, synthesizer
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, soprano saxophone, shanai
Yukihiro Isso: Japanese flute
Peter Brötzmann: tenor saxophone, clarinet, taragato, bass clarinet
Haruo Togashi: synthesizer

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Tenko : "Dragon Blue"

(Sound Factory, 1993)

1- Magic (4:34)
2- Where's Missing (2:41)
3- Bolero Hyperbolic (3:26)
4- Shi-ru-si (3:54)
5- Storm (8:50)
6- Say No (2:03)
7- Passing through the Night (5:03)
8- Happy End (5:49)
9- Kaguya (5:23)

musicians :

Tenko: vocal
Tsuneo Imahori: guitar
Hideki Kato: bass
Tatsuya Yoshida: drums, voice
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, guitar

live recording at Crocodile in Tokyo on March 5, 1992

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