artist: OTOMO YOSHIHIDE
title: Ensemble Cathode
label: Improvised Music From Japan
country: Japan
format: CD
title: Ensemble Cathode
label: Improvised Music From Japan
country: Japan
format: CD
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
Andrea Neumann: inside piano
Yoshihide Otomo: turntable.
"This album was recorded intermittently between May 2001 and March 2002. Most of the
tracks were recorded almost like live performances...In terms of musical concept, these
pieces are located somewhere between Cathode and Anode. Although the musicians
basically improvised, they were given a fairly limited amount of freedom. Depending on how
you look at it, however, it could also be said that they were given a great deal of freedom.
The pieces were created in such a way that the direction of the whole would not be
determined by the will of any one musician or composer. This is similar to the way in which
Anode was created. Like all of my works so far, none of these pieces could have been
realized without the improvisational and compositional skills of the participating musicians.
Thus, they are not 'composed works' in the narrow sense given to this term by traditional
Western music; nor can they, in my view, be categorized simply as improvised music. All I
can say is that for me, this is the most natural way to make music. The same goes for any type
of work I do --jazz, turntable and guitar solos, and so on." (Otomo Yoshihide)
Packaged in a mini-LP jacket.
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
Andrea Neumann: inside piano
Yoshihide Otomo: turntable.
"This album was recorded intermittently between May 2001 and March 2002. Most of the
tracks were recorded almost like live performances...In terms of musical concept, these
pieces are located somewhere between Cathode and Anode. Although the musicians
basically improvised, they were given a fairly limited amount of freedom. Depending on how
you look at it, however, it could also be said that they were given a great deal of freedom.
The pieces were created in such a way that the direction of the whole would not be
determined by the will of any one musician or composer. This is similar to the way in which
Anode was created. Like all of my works so far, none of these pieces could have been
realized without the improvisational and compositional skills of the participating musicians.
Thus, they are not 'composed works' in the narrow sense given to this term by traditional
Western music; nor can they, in my view, be categorized simply as improvised music. All I
can say is that for me, this is the most natural way to make music. The same goes for any type
of work I do --jazz, turntable and guitar solos, and so on." (Otomo Yoshihide)
Packaged in a mini-LP jacket.
