Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Hikashu

Ten Ten Ten

(Makigami Records, mkr-0006) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Nikoseron (3:52)
  2. The Situation Is Absolute (1:28)
  3. Outside I See You Falling (2:32)
  4. Like the Cat at Midnight (2:59)
  5. I/O (4:28)
  6. The Voice Is Still in the Bubble (5:27)
  7. Utorius (2:39)
  8. Be Far from the Ordinary Waves (2:14)
  9. State of Doors (4:52)
  10. March toward the Place with No Name (2:59)
  11. Power of Changing (1:24)
  12. Vague Compositon (2:07)
  13. Origami Clothes (2:43)
  14. Regenerative Power (1:28)
  15. Nikoseron Part 2 (3:55)

Music by Koichi Makigami (1, 3, 7, 13, 15), Hikashu (2, 4-6, 8-11, 14), and Koichi Makigami and Kazuto Shimizu (12)
All words by Koichi Makigami

Hikashu
Koichi Makigami: voice, theremin, cornet, Jew's harp
Freeman Mita: guitar, sampler
Masami Sakaide: bass, effects
Kazuto Shimizu: piano, synthesizer, bass clarinet
Masaharu Sato: drums, voice, percussion

Recorded by Kenji Shimoda, Masami Sakaide, and Koichi Makigami at Kampo Studio A, New York City, December 8 and 9, 2005; and at 1714 Studio and IGO Studio, November 2009
Mixed by Masami Sakaide
Mastered by Seigen Ono at Saidera Mastering
Produced by Koichi Makigami
Illustration by Yoko Isono
Photo by Ayako Makigami
Design by Aki Hirabayashi

Released in December 2009