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Komatcha Klezmer

Ido no Soko no Hoshi

(Bancha Records, BANCHA-001) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Ido no Soko no Hoshi (6:36)
  2. Till the "Tanabata," 2022... (5:19)
  3. Shirokuma no Dance (7:32)
  4. Goat Is Laughing (5:18)
  5. Moon Cat (4:23)
  6. Mangetsu no Hana (3:55)
  7. Haru no Arashi (5:00)
  8. A la Turk (10:18)
  9. Small Factory in Downtown (5:48)
  10. Isu ga Nigeta (6:56)

Composed by Takero Sekijima (1, 9), Chan-Kohyo (2), Yoko Tada (3, 4), Kazutoki Umezu (5, 10), Yoko Kumagai (6), Kazutoki Umezu and Kiyoshiro Imawano (7), and Sapo Perapaskero (8)
Words by Moe Kamura and Chan-Kohyo (2) and Kiyoshiro Imawano (7)
All arranged by Komatcha Klezmer

Komatcha Klezmer
Kazutoki Umezu: clarinet (1-3, 7, 9, 10), bass clarinet (3, 4), soprano saxophone (5, 6), alto saxophone (8), vocal (7)
Yoko Tada: soprano saxophone (4, 7), alto saxophone (1, 2, 6, 8), tenor saxophone (3, 5, 9, 10), baritone saxophone (3), vocal (2)
Ayumi Matsui: violin
Chan-Kohyo: accordion (2), vocal (2)
Takero Sekijima: tuba (1-3), recorder (1-3), trombone (3)
Fumihisa Natsuaki: drums, percussion

Produce by Komatcha Klezmer
Recorded by Fumihisa Natsuaki and Takero Sekijima at Seminar House, Wild Fields Ojika, Nikko, April 17-19, 2010
Mixed and mastered by Fumihisa Natsuaki
Design by Taiga Kuhara and Tetsuya Kobayashi

Released in May 2011