Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Teruyuki Oshima

Into the Black

(Body Electric / East Works Entertainment, EWBE 0020) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Plot0.333+ (1:03)
  2. Rootrum (6:11)
  3. Dark Ages America 1956 (6:50)
  4. The Molecular Ensemble 1 (9:41)
  5. The Molecular Ensemble 2 (3:30)
  6. Impressionistic Soundscapes (5:34)
  7. Into the Black (8:53)
  8. One Day (7:18)
  9. Turning off the Switch of Gravity/Things to Come (5:25)
  10. Dark Ages America (1:54)

All music composed and arranged by Teruyuki Oshima
Words (3, 8, 9) by Fuminosuke (English translation by Atsushi Kodera)

Teruyuki Oshima: guitar (1-3, 7, 9), samples (1-6, 10), edit (1, 10), tuning fork (4), triangle (5), etc.
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar (2, 7), turntables (1, 9)
Takuyuki Moriya: contrabass (2-4, 6-8, 10)
Shinichi Tsukamoto: piano (2-8, 10)
Kenichi Matsumoto: flute (2, 8), alto saxophone (5-7)
Daisuke Fujiwara: tenor saxophone (2, 5-8)
Yoshihiro Goseki: baritone saxophone (2, 6, 7), alto saxophone (5, 8)
Ryuichi Yoshida: flute (3, 10)
Masahiko Okura: bass clarinet (4, 9)
Miroque: synthesizer (9)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (2-5, 7, 10)
Itoken: drums (4, 5, 7)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums (2-5, 7, 10)
Fuminosuke: vocal (3, 8, 9)
Hiromits Shoji: ride cymbal (8)

Produced by Teruyuki Oshima
Recorded by Hiromits Shoji at Studio Seisho, Loop-Line, Moriya's room, and Sara Disc
Mixed and mastered by Hiromits Shoji at Sara Disc
Artwork by IDE Kyodai
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Yoshio Otani

Released in December 2006