Carmen Maki & Salamandre

(W-In records, 2003)

1- Trick star (5'36'')
2- Lilly was gone with windowpane (8'13'')
3- Sekai no Hate no Tabi (14'21'')
4- Over the rainbow (9'56'')
5- Sora to Riku no Majiwatta Tokoro (8'56'')
6- Kawaranai Mono (9'45'')

musicians :

Carmen Maki : vocal
Kido Natsuki : guitars
Katsui Yuji : electric violin
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro : drums & percussion
Matsunaga Takayoshi : electric & acoustic bass

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Shelley Hirsch + Uchihashi Kazuhisa : "Duets"

(Innocent, 2002)

1- (2:45)
2- (4:40)
3- (4:47)
4- (5:10)
5- (2:34)
6- (15:32)
7- (11:33)
8- (9:27)

(all music improvised by Shelley Hirsch and Uchihashi Kazuhisa. Recorded live at Big Apple, Kobe, November 21, 2000)

musicians :

Shelley Hirsch: voice, electronics
Uchihashi Kazuhisa: guitar, electronics

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Derek Bailey + The Ruins : "Tohjinbo"

(Paratactile, 1998)

1- Irakhioschukk
2- Kishnatass
3- Nibbimco

4- Ssuirakka

5- Naffrott
6- Vannachitta
7- Emmavorukk
8- Hyokkojick
9- Rakiosch
10- Menvortta
11- Bishumtsull
12- Tohjinbo

musicians :

Derek Bailey : guitar
Tatsuya Yoshida : drums, voice
Sasaki Hisashi : bass

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Emergency ! : "Loveman plays psychedelic swing"

(Studio Wee, 2002)

1- Re-boptism (8;14)
2- Creole Love Call (13:21) ( Duke Ellington)
3- Canon (7:03) ( Charles Mingus)
4- Emergency! Walkin' (10:55)
5- (a) Don't Say It (3:43) / (b) The Inflated Tear (Rahsaan Roland Kirk) (11:25)
6- Jelly Roll (3:59) (Charles Mingus)
7- The Look of Love (9:26) (Burt Bacharach)

musicians :

Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion
Yoshihide Otomo: guitar
Ryoichi Saito: guitar
Hiroaki Mizutani: bass

Recorded live at Buddy in Tokyo on March 20, 2002

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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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