Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Hiroshi Funato

Low Fish

(Off Note, ON-54) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Malachi no Hitorigoto (2:40)
  2. Higashiyama (5:23)
  3. Lara's Theme (4:57)
  4. Nanashi no Stripper (6:39)
  5. Katse (2:54)
  6. Sakana no Ki (4:02)
  7. AEC (6:28)
  8. Low Fish (4:53)

Songs by Hiroshi Funato (1, 5-8); Takero Sekijima; (2); Maurice Jarre (3); and Yutaka Ohara (4)

Hiroshi Funato: contrabass (all tracks), percussion (7)
Takero Sekijima: tuba (2, 4, 6), alto recorder (7), percussion (7), trumpet (7), great bass recorder (8)
Kanji Nakao: tenor saxophone (3), soprano saxophone (4), drums (4, 5, 7), clarinet (5, 6), trombone (7), percussion (7)

Recorded by Nobuo Ishizaki at PAL Ongaku Studio, Tokyo (1), Nikkan Bunka Koryu Center, Kyoto (2, 8), and Studio Wedge, Kyoto (3-7), February, April, and May 2004
Mixed and mastered by Nobuo Ishizaki at Studio Stone Cap, Tokyo, June 2004
Produced by Hiroshi Funato and Kazuyoshi Kamiya
Design by Kunihisa Fujiwara
Artwork by Kunihisa Fujiwara and Masashi Kuwamoto
Photos by Masashi Kuwamoto

Released in 2004