Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris
ORT - Orchestra della Toscana

Holy Sea

(Splasc(H) Records, CDH 802-803.2) (Italy) (2-CD set)

Disc I

Conduction #57
Holy Sea, Shopping - Teatro Puccini, Firenze, February 8, 1996

  1. 57E1 (14:05)
  2. 57 (25:21)
  3. 57E2 (12:17)

Conduction #58
Holy Sea, Marble Dust - Teatro degli Animosi, Carrara, February 9, 1996

  1. 58E1 (5:22)
  2. 58E2 (6:53)
  3. 58E3 (4:44)

Disc II

Conduction #58
Holy Sea, Marble Dust - Teatro degli Animosi, February 9, 1996

  1. 58 (37:09)

Conduction #59
Holy Sea, (The) Devil's Music - Chiesa di S. Domenico, Pistoia, February 10, 1996

  1. 59E2 (3:36)
  2. 59 (32:24)

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, conductor
J.A. Deane: live sampling, drum machine, trombone, electronics
Otomo Yoshihide: turntables, sampling, electronics
Riccardo Fassi: piano
ORT - Orchestra della Toscana
Andrea Tacchi, Giorgio Ballini, Paolo Gaiani, Maria Elena Runza: violin
Riccardo Masi, Alessandro Franconi, Dimitri Mattu: viola
Giovanni Bacchelli, Filippo Burchietti: cello
Raffaello Majoni, Gianpietro Zampella: contrabass
Michele Marasco: flute
Umberto Codeca: bassoon
Gianfranco Dini: horn
Donato De Sena, Claudio Quintavalla: trumpet
Renzo Brocculi: trombone
Riccardo Tarlini: tuba
Morgan M. Torelli: timpani
Jonathan Faralli: percussion
Cinzia Conte: harp

Holy Sea conductions produced by ORT-Orchestra della Toscana and Musicus Concentus of Florence for the program Musica Obliqua
Recorded live by Omikron, Firenze; Claudio Benelli; and Gianluca Masala
Edited by J.A. Deane and mastered by Daniel Wyatt at Shaolin Temple of Soul New York, September 2-6, 1998
Produced by B. Morris
Graphic design by Luigi Naro
Cover and inside photos by Paola Bensi
Includes a 12-page booklet with liner notes in English by Lawrence D. Morris, Alessandro Cassin, Allan Graubard, and Don Palmer; and in English and Italian by Giuseppe Vigna

Released in 1999