Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Otomo Yoshihide

Anode

(Composers Series)

(Tzadik, TZ 7073) (U.S.) (CD)


  1. Anode 1 (10:35)
  2. Anode 2 (13:04)
  3. Anode 3 (15:03)
  4. Anode 1 Variation (15:42)

Otomo Yoshihide: electric-feedback guitar (1, 4)
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro: percussion, drums
Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar
Kumiko Takara: percussion, vibraphone, timpani
Tetuzi Akiyama: turntable without records, contact microphone
Annette Krebs: electro-acoustic guitar (2, 4)
Masahiro Uemura: percussion, drums
Itoken: percussion, crotales, drums
Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone
Mari Furuta: percussion, crotales
Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto (2, 3)
Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: percussion, drums

Produced by Otomo Yoshihide
Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound in Tokyo, May-June 2001
Tracks 2 and 4 (Annette Krebs) recorded by Otomo Yoshihide at A-102 studio in Tokyo, June 2001
Mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital in New York
Photography by Toshimitsu Tetsuya and Kazue Yokoi
Design by Heung-Heung Chin
Includes liner notes in English by Otomo Yoshihide

Released in December 2001