Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Tetsu Saitoh

Stone Out

(Omba Records, OMBA-002CD) (CD)


Stone Out 1995
  1. Introdution (8:48)
  2. A Kite (6:06)
  3. Notice/Grief (5:37)
  4. Consolation (10:23)
  5. Send-Off (7:07)
  6. Last Theme (8:07)

Param/Just Accept 1994

  1. Param (4:39)
  2. JustAccept (7:36)

Tetsu Saitoh: bass, ching and glocken
Keita Itoh: bass, ching and glocken
Kyoko Kuroda: piano, ching and glocken

Koto Vortex
Yoko Nishi: koto and ching
Miki Maruta: koto and ching
Etsuko Takezawa: 17-string koto, ching and shoh
Michiyo Yagi: standard and 17-string kotos and ching

Recorded by Takashi Uetsuki on December 20, 1995 at Studio Sound Valley in Tokyo
Mastered by Keiko Ueda and Takashi Uetsuki on December 24, 1995 at Recording Studio Tokyu Fun in Tokyo
Paintings by Rieko Koyama
Artwork by Miwako Saitoh
Photography by Ryoh Yamada and Tadahisa Sakurai
Includes liner notes by Tetsu Saitoh (in Japanese and English) and Yoko Nishi (in Japanese)

Released 1996