Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

J.A. Seazer

Tenjo-Sajiki Music Work Collection

(Fuji, FJ-016-020) (Japan) (5-CD set)

Disc 1: J.A. Seazer Recital Part 1

  1. Tenshotan (11:40)
  2. Kokkyo Aika (3:58)
  3. Empty Bird Hensokyoku (5:28)
  4. Olphe Hiroshima (5:07)
  5. Teisei Russia Tenraku no Rock (10:06)
  6. Minkan Iryojutsu (7:02)
  7. Ningyo Shoten (4:27)
  8. Otori no Kuru Hi (8:18)

Disc 2: J.A. Seazer Recital Part 2

  1. Kyojo Bushi (6:20)
  2. Tokyo Junreika (9:29)
  3. Chohatsu Soshu: Aware Jiyu ya (3:37)
  4. Hideaki Shihen 1 (3:06)
  5. Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (5:33)
  6. Haha Sute Hannyakyo (4:26)
  7. Haha Koishi ya Sangosho (4:26)
  8. Hideaki Shihen 2 (7:04)
  9. Wasan (7:49)
  10. Jinriki Hikoki no Tame no Enzetsu Soan (6:28)
  11. Yama ni Noborite Tsugeyo (15:21)

Recorded live at Nippon Seinenkan Hall, Tokyo, February 3 and 4, 1973

J.A. Seazer: vocal, electric piano, harmonium, electric guitar, koto, wadaiko
Takeshi Mori: electric guitar
Yuzo Kawata: electric bass
Shigeyuki Suzuki: drums
Shuji Sasada: bongos
Norihito Inaba: timpani
Henriku Morisaki: fue, chorus
Shigeo Isogai: gong
Kaoru Fujiwara: self-made instruments
Kyozo Hayashi: congas
Masamichi Oikawa: percussion
Kunio Yamazaki: bamboo percussion
Keiko Niitaka: vocal, chorus
Yoko Ran: vocal, chorus
Seigo Showa: reading
Hideaki Sasaki: reading
Salvador Tali: chorus
Tomiko Seki: chorus
Yasuyuki Kogure: chorus
Kiyoshi Nakazawa: chorus
Masabumi Chinen: chorus
Monika: chorus
Debora: chorus
Vicky Masako: chorus

Disc 3: Seishonen no Tame no Mujinto Nyumon

  1. Empty Bird (8:10)
  2. Gaka (9:19)
  3. Noah no Ararat (5:10)
  4. Ketsuyaku Seisho (6:44)
  5. Ro Robinson no Theme (2:29)
  6. Extra (3:36)
  7. Kamigami no Wild Party Part 1 (2:17)
  8. Kamigami no Wild Party Part 2 (2:43)
  9. Olphe Hiroshima (9:26)
  10. Issai Metsubo Kyo (3:58)
  11. Seishonen no Tame no Mujinto Nyumon (16:05)

All music composed and performed for Shuji Terayama's theater piece Seishonen no Tame no Mujinto Nyumon [1971], which was presented by the theater group Tenjo Sajiki at MBS Hall, Osaka, December 5, 1971 and at TBS Hall, Tokyo, December 7, 1971

J.A. Seazer: electric piano, electric guitar
Takeshi Mori: electric guitar
Yuzo Kawada: electric bass
Hendrix Hubler: drums
Members of the theater group Tenjo Sajiki: vocal, chorus

Disc 4: Hashire Merosu/Kyofu no Ongaku

Hashire Merosu

  1. Opening (8:55)
  2. Dorei Shijo (3:00)
  3. Kusari ni Tsunagareta Doreitachi (2:56)
  4. Kokkyo Aika (4:10)
  5. Mojin Shokan (3:44)
  6. Ramaimada (2:39)
  7. Kokumei Maisoka (3:54)
  8. Otori no Kuru Hi (8:16)

All music composed and performed for Shuji Terayama's theater piece Hashire Merosu, which was presented by the theater group Tenjo Sajiki at an amphitheater in Munich, Germany, between August 27 and September 3, 1972

J.A. Seazer: electric piano, drums
Takeshi Mori: electric guitar, electric bass
Members of the theater group Tenjo Sajiki: vocal, chorus

Kyofu no Ongaku

  1. Haha Sute Hannyakyo (4:27)
  2. Haha Koishi ya Sangosho (8:58)
  3. Anata eno Message (5:07)
  4. Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (6:09)
  5. Mahara to Same (17:40)

Studio recording made in 1972

J.A. Seazer: electric piano, electric guitar, vocal (9, 10)
Hendrix Hubler: drums
Yuzo Kawada: electric bass
Henriku Morisaki: recorder
Yoko Ran: vocal (11)
Salvador Tali: vocal (12)
Tomiko Seki: vocal (13)
and others

Disc 5: Kodomo Gari

  1. Opening (0:25)
  2. Tobu Kyoshitsu 1 (4:02)
  3. Hanzubon to Jampan (4:59)
  4. Kodomo Reigi Saho (1:58)
  5. Keshigomu no Kyoshitsu (0:41)
  6. Shonen Tanteidan (1:32)
  7. Kuiya (0:40)
  8. Kangaeru Taiso (0:34)
  9. Namakemono no Papa to Mama (4:18)
  10. Butaman Papa (0:15)
  11. Nikuman Mama (0:20)
  12. Panya no Segare (1:01)
  13. Utauna Reny Bordon 1 (1:49)
  14. Keshigomu (2:42)
  15. Kuiya to Panya Part 1 (1:01)
  16. Kuiya to Panya Part 2 (0:31)
  17. Kuiya to Panya Part 3 (3:06)
  18. Boomerang (2:36)
  19. Ribon wo Musunda (3:38)
  20. Kaigyo to Shojo (13:01)
  21. Kuropan no Theme (3:52)
  22. Boomerang (Slow) (1:00)
  23. Omae no Hone wo Kona ni Shite Rattatta (4:04)
  24. Utauna Reny Bordon 2 (3:54)
  25. Warukuchi Uta (2:29)
  26. Tobu Kyoshitsu 2 (1:31)
  27. Ending (6:22)

All music composed and performed for Shuji Terayama and Rio Kishida's rock musical for children Kodomo Gari [1979], which was presented by members of the theater group Tenjo Sajiki and other (adult and child) actors at Kishi Gymnasium, Tokyo, between August 21 and 23, 1979

J.A. Seazer: electric piano
Takeshi Mori: electric guitar
Yoshinobu Hiraiwa: keyboard
Koji Ishii: tuba
Tsuneo Oishi: drums
Shinji Takemura: electric bass
Masayo Shiobara: chorus
Atsuko Takayama: chorus
Junko Shiomi: chorus
and others

All music composed by J.A. Seazer for theater group Tenjo Sajiki between 1970 and 1978
Words by Shuji Terayama (Disc 1: 2, 4-7, 9; Disc 2: 3, 6, 9-11; Disc 3: 2, 4, 7-9, 11; Disc 4: 2, 4-6, 8, 9; Disc 5: 2, 9-19, 23-26), J.A. Seazer (Disc 2: 5, 7; Disc 3: 3; Disc 4: 10-13), Hideaki Sasaki (Disc 2: 4, 8), and Shigeo Takenaga (Disc 2: 2)

Produced by Makoto Inoue
Mastered by Soichiro Nakamura
Design by Takuya Kitamura
Includes an 80-page booklet with notes (in Japanese) about each disc by Makoto Inoue, and about J.A. Seazer by Takeo Udagawa; scripts; and photos

Released in March 2008
Nine tracks on Discs 1 and 2 (J.A. Seazer Recital) originally released in 1973 (in edited and excerpt versions) as the LP J.A. Seazer Recital: Kokkyo Junreika (Victor, SJX-130)