Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Daysuke Takaoka

Shakkei: Summer

(Blowbass, BLOWBASS-001) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Bugs around Undo-ya (0:35)
  2. African Pipe in Kyoto (1:29)
  3. Popping on Surface (1) (1:59)
  4. escape from suffocation (1) (2:25)
  5. supon (0:36)
  6. Scirocco in Kyoto (1:17)
  7. Emergence (6:40)
  8. Bull Frog (2:32)
  9. Mountain Horn (2:02)
  10. Vaporize (2:30)
  11. Temple Bell (0:40)
  12. Escape from Suffocation (2) (3:39)
  13. Inhaling with Cicada (0:45)
  14. Popping on Surface (2) (2:19)
  15. Mosquit Song (0:25)
  16. Duo Alone (3:29)
  17. Escape from Suffocation (3) (3:31)
  18. Daily Life (6:36)
  19. Busy Pipe (1:27)
  20. Pipe Singing (7:49)
  21. Tuba Drumming (5:40)
  22. Sound Smoke (1:53)
  23. Frogs Party in Midnight (1:06)

Conceptualized and improvised by Daysuke Takaoka

Daysuke Takaoka: tuba, voice, field recordings

Recorded by Daysuke Takaoka at a house in Ayabe, Kyoto, July 2012
Includes Japanese liner notes by Daisuke Takaoka

Released in October 2012