Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Ayuo

What We Look Like in the Picture

(Zipangu Products, ZIP-0024) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Midnight--Late Night (5:16)
  2. Ophelia (6:25)
  3. The Kids (5:00)
  4. A Picture of You and I 1: When I Was Eight (4:27)
  5. A Picture of You and I 2: Wedding Night (1:32)
  6. A Picture of You and I 3: A Box Garden (1:59)
  7. A Picture of You and I 4: When You Were Forty (2:34)
  8. Roses Blue--Both Sides Now (4:36)
  9. A Summer Night in the City (3:10)
  10. Circus (4:21)
  11. Face of Another Waltz--Psyche Interlude in 3/4 (8:32)
  12. Men of Good Fortune (5:30)
  13. Pirate Jenny (The Black Freighter) (7:44)
  14. Tokyo Festival (4:00)

Music by Ayuo (1-"Midnight," 2, 4-7, 9, 10, 11-"Psyche Interlude in 3/4," 14); Syd Barrett (1-"Late Night"); Lou Reed (3, 12); Joni Mitchell (8); Toru Takemitsu (11-"Face of Another Waltz"); and Kurt Weil (13)
Words by Ayuo (1-"Midnight," 2, 4, 5, 7); Syd Barrett (1-"Late Night"); Lou Reed (3, 12); Joni Mitchell (8); Chuya Nakahara (9, 10, 14); Tatsuji Iwabuchi (11-"Face of Another Waltz"); and Bertolt Brecht (13)
Arrangements by Ayuo (1, 3, 8, 11, 12)

Ayuo: vocals (1-5, 7, 8, 11-13), acoustic guitar (1, 3, 8, 9, 11-13), bouzouki (2), electric guitar (4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 14), bass (11), darbuka (11)
Yoko Ueno: vocals (9, 10, 14)
Masumi Hara: vocals (10)
Jadranka: vocals (2)
Shuichi Chino: electric piano (9, 14), piano (10)
Yuji Takahashi: piano (4-7)
Jyoji Sawada: sound collage (3)
Ken Awazu: sounds from nature (1)

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Takehiko Kamada
City sounds of Ginza on track 14 recorded by Ayuo
Recorded at Foxyroom, Studio 246, Chino Shuichi Studio, and Ayuo's Room
Art direction and design by Yosuke Jikuhara
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Ayuo

Released in October 2006