Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Agencement

Viosphere+: Selected Works 1984-1991

(Art into Life, 007) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Previosphere (4:39)
  2. Penta 2 (10:51)
  3. Viosphere Part 1 (20:12)
  4. Viosphere Part 2 (20:12)
  5. Sbub Stroke (6:23)

All music by Hideaki Shimada

Agencement (Hideaki Shimada): magnetic tapes (1, 5), violin (1, 3-5), electronics (1, 3, 4), amplified autoharp (2), 16-channel magnetic tapes (3, 4), 100M synthesizer (3), Casiotone electronic keyboard (5)
Hironari Iwata: electric guitar (2)

Track 1: recorded and mixed at 203 Studio, April 1990
Track 2: recorded live at a studio in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, 1988
Track 3: recorded at 203 Studio between early spring and July 1990, and mixed in August 1990
Track 4: recorded at 203 Studio between September 1990 and January 1991, and mixed in February 1991
Track 5: recorded at Old 96 Studio in 1984
Digitally remastered at Kubo Studio, Kanazawa, October 2012
Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes by Hideaki Shimada in Japanese and English (translation by Alan Cummings), drawings by Hideaki Shimada, and color photos

Released in May 2013
Tracks 3 and 4 orginally released in 1991 as the CD Viosphere (Pico, Pico 03)
Other tracks previously unreleased