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Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra

Origin [+7 Special Edition]

(Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-189/190) (Japan) (2-CD set)


Disc 1

  1. Dancer's Image (10:31)
  2. So Blessed (7:31)
  3. First Dawn (24:00)
  4. Fleet Wing (23:41)

Disc 2

  1. Bold and Able (20:53)
  2. Only for Life (10:42)
  3. Hard to Beat (12:37)
  4. Yellow God (8:29)
  5. Tribal Chief (pate pote) (18:31)
  6. Never Say Die (3:29)

Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra
Yoshiaki Fujikawa: conductor, reeds (all tracks)
Tetsuji Yoshida: trumpet (all tracks)
Ichiyu Komiya: trumpet (all tracks)
Hiroshi Itaya: trombone (all tracks)
Haruki Satoh: trombone (all tracks)
Eiichi Hayashi: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-4)
Kazutoki Umezu: reeds (all tracks)
Suetoshi Shimizu: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-3)
Hiroaki Katayama: reeds (all tracks)
Masamiki Takano: reeds (CD 1, tracks 2-3)
Keiki Midorikawa: cello (all tracks)
Yoshio Ikeda: bass (CD 1, tracks 1-3)
Nobuo Fujii: drums (CD 1, tracks 1-3)
Tatsuji Yokoyama: percussion (all tracks)
Hiroshi Matsumoto: reeds (CD 1, track 4)
Takeharu Hayakawa (bass) (CD 1, track 4; CD 2, tracks 1-6)
Takashi Kikuchi (drums) (CD 1, track 4; CD 2, tracks 1-6)
Keizo Inoue (reeds) (CD 2, tracks 1-6)
Junji Hirose (reeds) (CD 2, tracks 1-6)

CD 1, tracks 1-3 recorded at Toei Oizumi Movie Studios, July 3, 1985
CD 1, track 4 recorded live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, February 7, 1985
CD 2, tracks 1-6 recorded live at International New Jazz Festival, Moers, Germany, June 11, 1984
Includes a 20-page Japanese-language booklet with a history of Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra, liner notes by Toyo Nakamura, the text of a conversation between Teruto Soejima and Yoshiaki Fujikawa (edited by Yuki Kinoshita), and black-and-white photos
Mastered by Soichiro Nakamura

Released in March 2013
CD 1, tracks 1-3 originally released in 1985 as the LP Origin (Mobys Record, 0002)