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Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi with Kuricorder Quartet and Shibusashirazu Orchestra

Shibukuri: Shibusa Plays Kuricorder/Kuricorder Plays Shibusa

(Saboten Brothers, DDCZ-1608) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Opening Theme of Pitagoraswitch (0:30)
  2. Mayonnaise No. 2 (3:43)
  3. Theme of Honda Komuten (4:20)
  4. Hotel La Salle 1986 (3:53)
  5. Naadam (2:29)
  6. Gekka no Ichigun (6:23)
  7. Up on a Moon Hill (4:35)
  8. Kotei (4:09)
  9. Umi wo Wataru Kaze (9:03)
  10. Hikouki (4:51)
  11. Hyottoko (3:17)
  12. Gekka no Ichigun (6:28)
  13. Peje (4:15)
  14. Inuhime (2:40)

Music by Masaki Kurihara (1, 2), Daisuke Fuwa (3, 10, 11, 14), Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi (4, 7), Eiichi Hayashi (5), Takero Sekijima (6, 9, 12), Takayuki Kato (8), and Kenji Kondo (13)

Shibusashirazu Orchestra (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13)
Daisuke Fuwa: dando-list
Hiroaki Katayama: tenor saxophone (excluding 9)
Han Sato: tenor saxophone (excluding 9)
Tetsu Hirosawa: tenor saxophone (excluding 9)
Hideki Tachibana: alto saxophone (excluding 9)
Akira Kito: baritone saxophone
Ryuichi Yoshida: baritone saxophone (excluding 9)
Aya Murodate: flute, vocal (excluding 9)
Mitsuhide Tatsumi: trumpet (excluding 9)
Yoichiro Kita: trumpet
Yasuyuki Takahashi: trombone (excluding 9)
Gideon Juckes: tuba
Naoki Hanashima: bass clarinet (excluding 9)
Masataka Fujikake: drums (excluding 9)
Jun Isobe: drums (excluding 9)
Mari Sekine: percussion (excluding 9)
Ryoichi Saito: electric guitar (excluding 9)
Fang Taeil: electric guitar (excluding 9)
Hiroshi Higo: electric bass (excluding 9)
Koichi Yamaguchi: organ (excluding 9)
Dairo Suga: piano (excluding 1 and 12)
Shinichi Watabe: vocal (1)
Keisuke Ota: violin (excluding 1 and 12)
Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi: conductor, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Takero Sekijima: tuba
Wataru Okuma: clarinet, bass clarinet

Kuricorder Quartet (3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14)
Masaki Kurihara: soprano recorder, alto recorder, andes25
Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi: alto recorder, tenor recorder, bodhran, caxixi, uncle beans
Kenji Kondo: acoustic guitars, ukulele, tenor recorder
Takero Sekijima: great bass recorder, alto recorder

Recorded by Atsushi Tanaka at Buddy, Ekoda, Tokyo, February 4, 2009 (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13); and by Kenji Kondo and Masaki Kurihara at Kurihara Jitaku Studio, March 9 and 10, 2009 (3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14)
Edited and mixed by Atsushi Tanaka at GOK Sound, February 24, 2009 (1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 13); and by Kenji Kondo at Maruo Studio, March 11, 2009 (3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14)
Mastered by Kenji Kondo at Maruo Studio, March 17 and 18, 2009
Art direction and design by Yusuke Hayashi
Illustration by Kenichi Aoyama
Produced by Yoshiyuki Kawaguchi

Released in May 2009