Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

First Meeting

Cut the Rope

(Libra Records, 104-025) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Cut the Rope (13:49)
  2. Headwaters (9:42)
  3. Flashback (4:22)
  4. Kaleidoscopic (24:21)
  5. Sublimation (13:05)

All compositions by Natsuki Tamura

First Meeting
Natsuki Tamura: trumpet
Satoko Fujii: piano
Kelly Churko: guitar
Tatsuhisa Yamamoto: drums

Recorded by Naoto Araki at Pit Inn, Tokyo, June 17, 2009
Mixed and mastered by Naoto Araki
Artwork by Ichiji Tamura
Design by Masako Tanaka
Photo by Miho Watanabe
Includes liner notes by Natsuki Tamura in Japanese and English (translation by Alan Gleason)

Released in January 2010