Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kokoo

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(Seven Seas/King Record, KICP681) (CD)

  1. Zoom (Nakamura) (6:04)
  2. Winter Song (Toshifumi Hinata) (4:34)
  3. Dorian in the Blue Sea (Nakamura) (8:05)
  4. Moonchild (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) (5:15)
  5. Paper Plane in a Universe of Constant Light Speed (Jyoji Sawada) (5:16)
  6. Fairy Tale (Nakamura) (4:44)
  7. Breath for the Moon (Haruno Kira) (12:28)

Track 4 arranged by Nakamura

Kokoo:
Akikazu Nakamura: shakuhachi
Michiyo Yagi: koto (4, 6, 7), 17-string koto (2, 3, 5), 20-string koto (1)
Miki Maruta: koto (2, 3, 5), 17-string koto (1, 4, 6, 7)

Recorded in 1998 by Masaki Sasaki at Studio Sound Pot (1, 3-7), and by Shinichi Kikuchi at Studio AVR (2)
Mixed by Masaki Sasaki (1, 3-7), and Akikazu Nakamura and Shinichi Kikuchi (2)
Mastered by Seigen Ono at Saidera Mastering in 1999
Art direction and photogpraghy: Kazutami Nishimoto
Design: Tomoyoshi Serikawa
Produced by Akikazu Nakamura, and Toshifumi Hinata (2)
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English (translation by Tomonari Maeda and Shawn Klemmer) by Makoto Iino and Yuriko Keino

Released April 1999