Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Katsuyuki Itakura

Love & Diversion

(no label name, LMCD-1466) (Japan) (CD)


1st Movement

  1. Barefoot (2:01)
  2. Dogfood for Tschaiko (5:53)
  3. Kaguya-hime (3:32)
  4. Darkness Sun & Red Moon (4:22)
  5. Wondering (3:54)
  6. Funny Kerog (3:17)

2nd Movement

  1. Barefoot (2:04)
  2. Dogfood for Tschaiko (2:29)
  3. Moisten Chaplin (4:24)
  4. Ningen no Ko (2:51)
  5. Easy Listening (3:16)
  6. Indian Ink Drawing (3:05)

3rd Movement

  1. Barefoot (2:00)
  2. Dogfood for Tschaiko (5:03)
  3. Love & Diversion (4:28)
  4. Twig (4:48)
  5. Out of Date (2:18)
  6. My Foolish Heart (7:10)
  7. Dogfood for Tschaiko (2:54)


All music by Katsuyuki Itakura, except track 18, by Victor Young

Katsuyuki Itakura: piano

Recorded live at Again in Sado on May 19, 1995; Rag-Time in Tendo on May 27, 1995; and Ashikaga Shimin Plaza on June 23, 1995
Photography by Yoshiyasu Ito
Cover design by Hiroyuki Miyabayashi
Includes liner notes by Keshavan Maslak in English and Eiichi Arai in Japanese

Released 1995