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Poly Breath Percussion Band

The Instinctive Awakening

(E.G.G., E.G.G. 89003) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Cry of the Sun (6:58)
  2. Plastic Drum (3:54)
  3. Force (4:18)
  4. Dance Music (9:27)
  5. Body Dance (7:01)
  6. HOI (5:50)
  7. Poly Breath Song (9:44)
  8. Awakening of Thunder (6:59)

Poly Breath Percussion Band
Shoji Hano: drums and voice
Megumu Nishino: wa-daiko
Shuichi Hidano: wa-daiko
Keizo Inoue: alto saxophone (1, 2, 5-7)
Yukihiro Isso: no-kan (3, 8)

Recorded at:
Gen-onsha Studio, Tokyo, September 1 and 2, 1993 (1, 2, 4-7)
Panpot Studio, Tokyo, May 14, 1993 (3, 8)

Recorded and mastered by Tsutomu Suto
Front cover design by Shoji Hano and Jun Yamazaki
Photography by Katsuo Sakayori
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Yukinori Omura

Released in 1994