Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Katsuyuki Itakura

Rent-A-Pigeon

(Copse, LMCD-1503) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Exactly Like a Monkey (5:24)
  2. Rent-A-Pigeon (5:11)
  3. The Air Cleaning by Octopus (4:51)
  4. Old Stripper (3:40)
  5. Love & Diversion (5:35)
  6. Barefoot-BearFoots (6:57)
  7. Shy Shark (3:54)
  8. Wondering Elephant (4:47)
  9. Easy Squirrel on Copse (5:56)
  10. Lady Watching (7:04)
  11. Funny Frog (6:47)
  12. Blues for Leina (1:07)
  13. Moisten Chaplin (6:13)

All music by Katsuyuki Itakura

Katsuyuki Itakura: piano
Nao Takeuchi: bass clarinet (3, 8), flute (2, 6), tenor sax (4, 5, 9, 11, 13)
Nobuki Odajima: guitar
Izumi Masakiyo: drums
Osamu Honjo: bass

Recorded live at Space Who on July 7, 1996 by Toshinori Sakai (1); Again in Sado on June 27, 1996 by Masahiro Morita (7); Purce II Room on January 2, 1996 (10); and Ashikaga Shimin Plaza on January 10, 1996 by Yukio Kojima (3, 4, 6, 8)
Photography by Hiroyuki Miyabayashi and Yoshiyasu Ito
Cover design by Hiroyuki Miyabayashi

Released 1996