Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Keiko Higuchi
Shinichiro Kanda

Shushi no Kakera

(Bishop Records, EXFV 003) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Eikyo (10:16)
  2. Barbara Song (10:04)
  3. Love Letters (7:21)
  4. Perspective (7:07)
  5. Bibo no Aozora (5:22)
  6. My Funny Valentine (10:39)
  7. All That the Man Left behind When He Died--Unseen Child (8:08)
  8. Ich ein Schöes Waldvöelein (4:41)
  9. I Love You, Porgy--Eikyo (8:26)

Words by Keiko Higuchi ("Eikyo"), Bertolt Brecht (2), Edward Heyman (3), Peter Barakan (4), Masao Urino (5), Lorenz Hart (6), Shuntaro Tanikawa (7), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (8), and Ira Gershwin ("I Love You, Porgy")
Music by Shinichiro Kanda ("Eikyo," 8), Kurt Weil (2), Victor Young (3), Ryuichi Sakamoto (4, 5), Richard Rogers (6), Toru Takemitsu (7), George Gershwin ("I Love You, Porgy")
Japanese translation by Yuji Takahashi (2) and Sho Shibata (8)

Keiko Higuchi: vocals
Shinichiro Kanda: piano

Recorded live by Chihei Hatakeyama at Z.imagine, Tokyo, November 27, 2009
Produced, mixed, and mastered by Hideaki Kondo
Cover art by Yuiko Hosoya
Design by Yoko Mitsuji
Includes liner notes by Hideaki Kondo in Japanease and English

Released in April 2010