Improvised Music From Japan

ITEM	Artist	Titel	Reldate	Comment
IMJ-514	Han Bennink & Kazuo Imai	Across the Desert	01.12.03	Han Bennink: drums & Kazuo Imai: acoustic guitar, electric guitar
IMJ-512	Peter Brötzmann & Shoji Hano	Funny Rat	01.10.03	Peter Brötzmann: tarogato, bass clarinet, tenor sax & Shoji Hano: drums, percussion; Recorded live by Tsutomu Suto (morgue-sha) at Aku Aku, Tsukuba, on October 10, 1991
IMJ-505	Shoji Hano	48	01.05.03	Shoji Hano: drums
IMJ-513	Toshimaru Nakamura	Side Guitar	01.12.03	Toshimaru Nakamura: (Fender Telecaster, Gibson ES-125)
IMJ-501	Toshimaru Nakamura & Tetuzi Akiyama	Meeting at Off Site Vol. 1	01.04.02	Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board)/ Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar, turntable, contact microphones)/ Thomas Ankersmit (sax)/ Taku Sugimoto (guitar)/ Toshihiro Koike (trombone)/ Taku Sugimoto (guitar)/ Utah Kawasaki (synthesizer)/ Jason Roebke (bass)/ Otomo Yoshihide (guitar)/ Gregor Hotz (sax)/ Bruno Meillier (synthesizer, electronics)/ Seymour Wright (sax)
IMJ-506	Toshimaru Nakamura & Tetuzi Akiyama	Meeting at Off Site Vol. 2	01.05.03	Tetuzi Akiyama (acoustic guitar, turntable, air duster, electric bass)/ Toshimaru Nakamura (no-input mixing board, tabletop guitar)/ Sean Meehan (percussion)/ Mark Wastell (cello)/ Taku Sugimoto (guitar)/ Kaffe Matthews (computer)/ Andrea Neumann (inside piano)/ Tim Barnes (percussion)
IMJ-515	Toshimaru Nakamura & Tetuzi Akiyama	Meeting at Off Site Vol. 3	01.12.03	Toshimaru Nakamura: (no-input mixing board)/ Tetuzi Akiyama: (electric guitar, resonator guitar, acoustic guitar, amplified acoustic guitar)/ Hakon Kornstad (sax)/ Masafumi Ezaki (trumpet)/ Oren Ambarchi (electric guitar)/ Keiichi Sugimoto (electric guitar)/ Günter Müller (electronics, selected drums)
IMJ-503	Kaffe Matthews, Andrea Neumann, Sachiko M	In Case of Fire Take the Stairs	01.12.02	Kaffe Matthews (laptop)/ Andrea Neumann (inside piano)/ Sachiko M (sinewaves, contact microphones)
IMJ-510	Aki Onda	Bon Voyage!	01.10.03	Aki Onda - Composer: group Audio Sports, with Eye Yamatsuka and Nobukazu Takemura
IMJ-508/9	Raku Sugifatti (Radu Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto)	Futatsu	07.12.03	2CD: Radu Malfatti (Trombone) & Taku Sugimoto (Guitar)
IMJ-507	Yumiko Tanaka	Tayutauta	30.01.04	Yumiko Tanaka: (futozao shamisen, vocal)
IMJ-10CD	V/A	IMPROVISED MUSIC from JAPAN: SOLD OUT!!	25.12.01	10-CD boxed set: @85=B8@>2>G=0O F5=0 2 >A:25-25052@> - Includes: 80-page booklet (in English and Japanese) with profiles of and comments by the 31 individual artists and 3 duos featured; Packaged in 5 cardboard 2-CD jackets; Natural paulownia wood box; Each set numbered; Limited edition - 800 sets produced: 500 sets (numbers 1 to 500) for sale through online mail order and local distribution; the remaining 300 (numbers 501 to 800) to go to participating musicians, etc; All of the material is new or previously unissued. Featured artists: Tetuzi Akiyama, Big Picture, Haco, Shoji Hano, Junji Hirose, Ryoji Hojito, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku, Kazuo Imai, Incapacitants, Atsuhiro Ito, Utah Kawasaki, Kyoko Kuroda, Brett Larner, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, Takehito Nakazato, Mitsuru Nasuno, Masahiko Okura, Aki Onda, Yasuhiro Otani, Yoshihide Otomo, Tetsu Saitoh, Michihiro Sato, Skist, Taku Sugimoto, Tamaru, Yumiko Tanaka, Tsuguto Tsunoda, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Michiyo Yagi, Seiichi Yamamoto, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Ami Yoshida, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
IMJ-301	V/A	IMPROVISED MUSIC from JAPAN 2002-2003	29.12.02	160 pages Booklet; w/Minoru Hatanaka, Otomo Yoshihide, Takashi Azumaya, Toshimaru Nakamura, Kazue Yokoi, Tadahiko Yokogawa, H.V.M., Christopher Stephens, Brett Larner, Yumiko Tanaka, Toyoki Okajima, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Yuko Zama, Aki Onda, Tetsuro Yasunaga
IMJ-302/3	V/A	Improvised Music from Japan EXTRA 2003	20.10.03	2CD Set, 128 pages Booklet; w/Masafumi Ezaki, Takefumi Naoshima, Kazuhiro Kinoshita, Ju Muraoka, Masahide Tokunaga, DJ Peaky, DILL, Taku Unami, Taku Hannoda, nentegaine, aen, Yoichiro Shin, Kazumi Namba, Takumi Toki, Teruyuki Ohshima, and BusRatch), plus two bonus tracks--a sax solo by Katsura Yamauchi, and a duo by Shoji Hano and Masaharu Shoji - 19tracks
IMJ-504	Ami Yoshida	Tiger Thrush	01.07.03	Ami Yoshida (vocals), Otomo Yoshihide (guitar, turntable)/ duos Cosmos, with Sachiko M (sinewaves)/ Astro Twin, with Utah Kawasaki (analog synthesizer)
IMJ-502	Otomo Yoshihide	Ensemble Cathode	01.07.02	Otomo Yoshihide: (turntable)/ Taku Sugimoto: (electric guitar)/ Tetuzi Akiyama: (turntable without records, contact microphones)/ Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: (waterphone)/ Kumiko Takara: (snare drum)/ Masahiro Uemura: (bells)/ Ami Yoshida: (voice)/ Itoken: (crotales)/ Mari Furuta: (snare drum)/ Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: (cymbal with bow)/ Sachiko M: (sine waves, contact microphone)/ Yoko Nishi: (prepared 17-string koto)/...
IMJ-511	Otomo Yoshihide, Park Je Chun, Mi Yeon	Loose Community	07.12.03	Otomo Yoshihide: (turntables, guitar)/ Park Je Chun: (percussion)/ Mi Yeon: (piano); Guests: Günter Müller: (electronics, selected drums)/ Yumiko Tanaka: (futozao shamisen)/ Sachiko M: (sinewaves)