Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Haruna Miyake
Yuji Takahashi

Ichimen Nanohana: On Two Pianos 1983

(ALM Records, ALCD-7007) (Japan) (CD)

  1. A Cheer Song . . . for Mr. Napoleon (3:45)
  2. Das Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit Menschlichen Strebens (2:21)
  3. Grasshoppers (3:36)
  4. Variations on "Fröhlicher Landmann" (8:21)
  5. Letters of Palestinian Children to God (2:21)
  6. Nanohana Flowers All Over (3:41)
  7. I Won't Come Back Tonight--Polish Partisan Song (6:32)
  8. The Pain of the Wondering Wind (5:29)
  9. 43° North--a Tango (3:14)

Music by Haruna Miyake (1, 4, 6, 9), Bertolt Brecht (2), Ryuichi Sakamoto (3), and Yuji Takahashi (5, 8)

Haruna Miyake and Yuji Takahashi: two pianos, toy piano, harmonium, rabana, chafkas, temple block

Recorded by Yukio Kojima at Nova Hall, Tsukuba, August 16 and 17, 1983
Design by Koga Hirano
Illustration by Machiko Yagyu
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Haruna Miyake

Released in 1988
Originally released in 1983 as an LP on ALM Records