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Hose
Hose was formed at the end of last century as an idea of Taku Unami with Toshihiro Koike, Masafumi Ezaki, who had also been working in the field of improvised music, and their friends Reiji Hattori and Tomoya Izumi who had never played music before. …
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first pe…
Prisoner
Hailed as a hero of underground film in the 1960's, director Masao Adachi presents the shocking new film 'Yuheisha (Terrorist)' after a hiatus of 35 years. The soundtrack was composed by Yoshihide otomo, who is known worldwide for transcending the bo…
[blue]
The soundtrack for the movie Blue (directed by Hiroshi Ando and starring Mikako Ichikawa, winner of Best Actress at the 2002 Moscow International Film Festival), which was based on acclaimed comic artist Kiriko Nananan's comic book of the same title,…
Disintegration loop 1.1
Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had recorded in August, 2001. Shot from Basinski's roof i…
Route 13 to the Gates of Hell : Live in Tokyo
Alongside Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M, Tetuzi Akiyama is an essential figure in the world of improvised music. Akiyama, also known as 'The Captain' by his colleagues, has been releasing a multitude of solo and col…
The sad mac
BACK IN STOCK! based in Saarbruecken, Germany, Mathieu worked worldwide as an improvising drummer, notably with German group Stol (Kitty-Yo) and Butch Morris' large conduction ensemble Berlin Skyscraper. Since 1998 his work has focused on the digi…
Harmonic series 2
Japanese-only release. Recorded live in Japan in 2003, Harmonic Series 2 is a 43 minute piece for computer generated sinewaves, custom software, guitar and analog electronics. It follows Harmonic Series 0 which was released on Table of the Elements. …
Recorded
All tracks improvised and composed by Optrum: Atsuhiro Ito: optron. Yoichiro Shin: drums. Recorded by Fumiaki Unehara at Swing Bamboo Studio, Tokyo, March 2006 (except 3, 10, 14,) (3) and (14) recorded by Optrum. (10) recorded live at Muryoku Muzenji…
Mizu no nai umi
Music recorded in 1990. forgotten about and rediscovered in a box in 2003. live version recorded in 2003 at Roulette, NYC with the addition of Tim Barnes on crotales and Karen Waltuch on Viola.  In 2003 i discovered a box of tapes I had thought I had…
The harmless dust
Brooklyn-based Grubbs and Athens-based cellist Veliotis took a break amidst their US tour for A Guess at the Riddle to go into John McEntire's Soma Studios and record The Harmless Dust, two duos for piano and cello and for e-bowed piano and Hammond o…
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