Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kokoo

Super-Nova

(Seven Seas/King Record, KICP716) (CD)

  1. Purple Haze (Hendrix) (3:14)
  2. Warszawa (Bowie) (6: 47)
  3. Tarkus Variation (Emerson) (4:41)
  4. Dropping the Torch (Hammil) (2:45)
  5. Led Zeppelin Variation: Immigrant Song (Page, Plant) - Black Dock (Jones, Page, Plant) - Over the Hills and Far Away (Page, Plant) - Misty Mountain Hop (Jones, Page, Plant) (7:20)
  6. Peaches en Regalia (Zappa) (2:55)
  7. She's Leaving Home (Lennon, McCartney) (4:59)
  8. One of These Days (Gilmour, Mason, Waters, Wright) (6:47)
  9. Eleanor Rigby (Lennon, McCartney) (3:27)
  10. Godzilla (Akira Ifukube) (6:18)

Arranged by Mari Takano (1), Koji Ueno (2), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (3), Ayuo (4), Akira Inoue (5), Yoichi Murata (6), Masahiro Sugaya (7), Jyoji Sawada (8), Motoaki Makino (9), and Hiroshi Takayama (10)

Kokoo:
Akikazu Nakamura: shakuhachi
Michiyo Yagi: koto, 17-string koto, 20-string koto
Miki Maruta: koto, 17-string koto, 20-string koto

Recorded by Masaki Sasaki at Studio Sound Pot in 2000
Mixed by Masaki Sasaki
Mastered by Seigen Ono at Saidera Mastering in 2000
Produced by Akira Nakamura
Art direction, design and photography: Kazutami Nishimoto

Released April 2000