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Kazue Sawai

The Wind Is Calling Me Outside: Kazue Sawai Plays Yuji Takahashi

(ALM Records, ALCD-37) (Japan) (CD)

  1. WhileI I Was Crossing the Bridge [1984] (12:11)
  2. The Wind Is Calling Me Outside [1986] (19:33)
  3. Song: Gossamer [1988] (18:20)
  4. Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity [1988] (12:32)

All music composed by Yuji Takahashi
Poetry by Kenji Miyazawa (2), Li He (3), and Emily Dickinson (4)

Kazue Sawai: 17-string koto (1), shamisen (2), poetry reading (2), se (3), 13-string koto (4)
Yuji Takahashi: poetry reading (3)
Yukihiko Nishizawa: alto flute (4)

Recorded at Niiza Shimin Kaikan, January 25 and 26, 1988
Directed by Yukio Kojima
Artwork by Makoto Matsushima
Design by Shoji Umemura
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Michiko Ishimure

Released in 1991