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Ground Zero

Ground Zero

(God Mountain, GMCD 002) (CD)

  1. Ground-Zero 890604 (4:29)
  2. China White (1:01)
  3. Lam Cheng-Ying/Yuen-Wah (5:17)
  4. WJAZ-1 (2:27)
  5. Chronicle-1 (1:26)
    Double quartet (left: Zorn, Otomo, Kato, and Buck; right: Hirose, Otomo, Kato, and Uemura)
  6. Eclipse (0:44)
  7. Massacring (1:26)
  8. M-Project (0:29)
  9. Ground-Zero (4:01)
  10. G-Project (1:38)
  11. WJAZ-2 (2:41)
  12. Chronicle-2 (1:45)
  13. Euthanasia Drive (1:12)
  14. Topography of the Black Lungs (0:38)
  15. Sniper XR. (0:47)
  16. I X Love II B.S.: M-Project 2 (0:57)
  17. Silanganan Ingay: G-Project 2 (1:40)
  18. Stranger Than Tokyo (3:19)
  19. Ground-Zero Presents Ground-Zero (4:32)
  20. Ground-Zero: Hong Kong-Tokyo, June 91 (5:09)

Ground Zero
Yoshihide Otomo: turntables (1-7, 10-13, 17, 19), guitar (1, 3, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19), sampler (12), CD (16, 18), tape (18), DAT (20)
Hideki Kato: bass (1-5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18-20), el-vo (15)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13-15, 18, 19), metal (20)
Junji Hirose: tenor sax (2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 17-20), soprano sax (9, 19)
Shuichi Chino: synthesizer (1, 2, 18), computer (1), piano (18), prepared piano (3, 20)

Guests
Eye Yamatsuka: vocals (2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19)
John Zorn: alto sax (4, 5, 10, 11, 15), vocal (4)
Tony Buck: drums (4, 5, 11)
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone (18)
Shu-Kei: narration (18)

All music by Otomo, except Zorn, Otomo, Kato, and Buck (4, 11); Otomo and Yamatsuka (6); Yamatsuka, Otomo, Kato, Uemura (8, 14); Zorn, Hirose, and Otomo (10); Zorn, Otomo, Kato, Uemura, and Yoshiaki Kondo (15); Hirose, Yamatsuka, and Otomo (17); Otomo, Chino, Hirose, Kato, and Uemura (20)

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK SOUND in Tokyo, February-May 1992, except 7 recorded by Otomo at Lost Space in Tokyo, May 1991
Design: Ryuco Amaki
Photography: Lim Soowoong
Produced by Masaki Morishita

Released 1993