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SXQ Saxquintet on Tour 2008 Russia-Lithuania

(Sincerely Music, SINM-003) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Moscow Station (0:23)
  2. Spectrum--Time Zone (16:17)
  3. Mission Impossible (8:05)
  4. Night Train (0:17)
  5. Water, Dice--100 Years Ago, Here Was a Rice Field (9:13)
  6. Golden Angel (14:00)
  7. Golden Angel II (0:25)
  8. Announcement (0:24)
  9. January (3:59)
  10. Pile Driver by the Volga (0:27)
  11. The Poet (0:45)
  12. May (5:42)
  13. Siren (0:13)
  14. Sheremetyevo 2 (0:27)
  15. In Your Head (12:46)

SXQ
Kenichi Matsumoto: soprano saxophone, shakuhachi
Hideki Tachibana: alto saxophone
Daisuke Fujiwara: tenor saxophone
Ryuichi Yoshida: baritone saxophone
Masaya Kimura: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Recorded live by Daisuke Fujiwara at Vilnius Jazz Festival, Russian Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania, October 11, 2008 (2); at Long Arms Festival, Club GEZ-21, St. Petersburg, October 3, 2008 (3); at Long Arms Festival, Cinema-concert Center RECORD, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, October 8, 2008 (5, 6, 15); and at Long Arms Festival, Marina and Anastasia Cvetaeva Museum, Alexandrov, Russia, October 5, 2008 (9, 12)
Tracks 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, and 14: field recordings made during the tour
Mastered by Kazuhiko Misumi
Design by Fumika Kishida

Released in March 2009