Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yosuke Yamashita Trio
Gerald Oshita
Dairakudakan

Arashi

(Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-38/39) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Moonlight Desert (11:57)
  2. Flower Corpse (6:06)
  3. Prelude by Gong and Human Voices (3:28)
  4. Ghosts Part I (2:14)
  5. Ghosts Part II (4:20)
  6. Golden Veins of a Leaf (4:03)
  7. Nihility Mobs: Interlude by Footsteps (1:47)
  8. An Age Is a Sunlight Coming through the Foliage of the Woods (10:21)
  9. Theme for Arashi (2:58)

Disc 2

  1. Great Nihility Conference: Part I-V (21:07)
  2. A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part I (0:51)
  3. A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part II (0:17)
  4. A Fan and a Doll (0:49)
  5. The Future War (0:46)
  6. Forest in Forest Shade (1:01)
  7. Theme for Arashi (18:43)
  8. Moonlight Desert (2:55)

Yosuke Yamashita Trio
Yosuke Yamashita: piano, percussion
Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, percussion
Shota Koyama: drums, percussion

Gerald Oshita: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, percussion
Dairakudakan (Maro Akaji, Ushio Amagatsu, Ko Murobushi, Tetsuro Tamura, Man Uno, Naohiko Torii, Kosei Inao, Nanten Harada, Junpei Sakai, Yosuke Matsuzawa, Mutsuko Tanaka, Anzu Furukawa, and Keiko Katsumata): Butoh dance

Recorded live at Nihon Seinenkan Hall, September 29, 1976
Engineered by Tsuyoshi Miyasaka
Produced by Yosuke Yamashita
Original design by Koga Hirano
Photos by Haruhisa Yamaguchi and Takumi Uchida
Design by Naomi Matsunaga
Includes Japanese liner notes by Takeo Udagawa (new release) and Yosuke Yamashita (original release)

Released in August 2008
Originally released in 1977 as a 2-LP set (FS-7019/20) on Frasco