Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Jo Kondo

Sen no Ongaku

(ALM Records, ALCD-1) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Click Crack [1973] (8:04)
    Yuji Takahashi: piano

  2. Orient Orientation [1973] (8:58)
    Ayako Shinozaki: harps [multiple recording]

  3. Standing [1973] (7:56)
    Hiroshi Koizumi: flute
    Yasunori Yamaguchi: marimba
    Aki Takahashi: piano

  4. Pass [1974] (10:15)
    Norio Sato: banjo
    Kikuo Shimura: guitar
    Masaru Soga: guitar
    Aki Takahashi: taisho-koto
    Ayako Shinozaki: harp
    Yasunori Yamaguchi: harmonica
    Ryoichi Kawai: conductor

  5. Falling [1973] (13:47)
    Isako Shinozaki: viola
    Masatsugu Shinozaki: viola
    Yoshio Nagashima: contrabass
    Aki Takahashi: electric piano

All composed by Jo Kondo

Recorded and mastered by Yukio Kojima
Art direction by Masaco Kondo
Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Jo Kondo in Japanese and English (translation by J.M. Benítez)

Released in July 2014
Originally released in 1974 as an LP on ALM Records