Otomo Yoshihide

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Four new compositions exploring free jazz, Cagean dialectics and noise improvisation by one of Japan's most versatile composer/performers. Beginning and ending with two of the most intense recordings Otomo has ever done, the centerpieces of this remarkable CD join the Cagean aesthetics of randomness and delicacy with Japanese noise into two Zen koans. As perplexing as it is exhilarating.

PERSONNEL:

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

TRACKS:

• 01. Anode 1
• 02. Anode 2
• 03. Anode 3
• 04. Anode 1 variation