Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yumiko Tanaka

Tayutauta

(Improvised Music from Japan, IMJ-507) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Furuike ya (5:40)
  2. Kaze ga Toku de (7:01)
  3. Amayadori (13:23)
  4. Yuki (8:26)
  5. Chirei (3:33)
  6. Ruten (8:39)
  7. Yamanoha (5:19)
  8. Otozure (1:10)
  9. Tayuta (10:29)
  10. The Gateway (0:46)

All music by Yumiko Tanaka
Yumiko Tanaka: futozao shamisen, vocal

Recorded by Yumiko Tanaka in her four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room in Yashiro, Hyogo prefecture, on September 10 (1), June 15 (2), June 16 (3), June 17 (4), September 11 (5), August 21 (6, 7), August 25 (8), August 26 (9), and August 27 (10), 2003
Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura in Tokyo on October 5, 2003
Produced by Yoshiyuki Suzuki
Design by Samm Bennett and Haruna Ito (Polarity Design)
Includes liner notes by Yumiko Tanaka in Japanese and English (translation by Cathy Fishman)

Released in March 2004