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Label: King Records Japan
ASIN: B006OQ0DRO
NUMBER
1. Flying Chikamorachi FLYING CHIKAMORACHI
2. After 40 Years AFTER 40 YEARS
3. Five Elephants In A Beetle FIVE ELEPHANTS IN A BEETLE
4. Kaguya-Hime Standing On Her Head KAGUYA-HIME STANDING ON HER HEAD
5. Arekore Shitashi
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ASIN:B0060FQW56
Price:3,150yen(include tax)/3,000yen(w/o tax)
Release Date:2011.12.21
selling agency:ultra-vybe http:www.ultra-vybe.co.jp
Label:SOLID
NUMBER
TRACKS
1. Part I
2. Part II
3. Part III
4. Part IV
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Label:Doubtmusic - dms-142
Format:CD, Album
Released in October 2011
NUMBER
1. Gion Shoja (9:00)
2. The Death of Kiyomori (6:54)
3. The Matter of the Six Paths (5:20)
4. The Assault from the Cliff (10:55)
5. The Death of Atsumori (12:02)
6. The Death of Kiso (3:19)
7. The Battle at Dan-no-ura (The Drowning of the Former Emperor) (9:19)
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Audio CD (September 20, 2011)
Original Release Date: 2011
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Family Vineyard
ASIN: B005DLBL40
NUMBER
Disc1 :
1. Kyoto
2. Hamazaki
Disc2 :
1. Nagoya 1
2. Nagoya 1
3. Nagoya 1
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And that's the story of jazz... Get it? Well, maybe you had to be there when legendary saxophonist Akira Sakata, guitarist Jim O'Rourke and bombast rhythm crew of percussionist Chris Corsano and double bassist Darin Gray (aka Chikamorachi) jumped in the van for a Japanese tour. This two CD set documents their 2008 jaunt -- not the first and far from last -- in blistering detail. Shades of Last Exit, Coltrane's Live in Seattle and even Kousokuya appear here but this quartet has nailed its own unique 'n' volatile tension and symmetry during its past six years together. Until now, their albums have only been available as Japanese imports. This is also the third U.S. release by Sakata on Family Vineyard in the past three years.
Throughout Sakata charges upper registers on alto sax yet still hooks stunning phrases and harmonic themes. O'Rourke's radical, electric guitar blasts are massive volleys of pure sound. All the while, Gray relentlessly anchors the torrent with subterranean grooves, scrapes and slaps while Corsano lays waste to his kit, pounding polyrhythms and tones. Together passages transform from blinding, uncompromised brutality to where Sakata's sweetened melodies dance slowly alone and O'Rourke, also on harmonica, adds lonesome country blues. Over-the- top at times, but hey, that's the story of jazz... If you want Grade- A, blood splattered free music, this is it, but you gotta pay for it.
"... an absolute revelation. Sakata's style bridges classic post-Fire Music Japanese freedoms with a wild mystic/psychedelic edge and the combined backgrounds of his three collaborators push the whole deal into some kind of post-improvised underground psych zone. Sure, there are raging multi-limbed blow-outs that worship at the altar of Church Number 9 where you can barely make out who is doing what but there's a whole deal more, picked guitar and droning strings over weird acid folk meditations that cross Holy Mountain-era Don Cherry with Mark Fry and Yatha Sidhra, the kind of raggedy folk/punk euphoria more associated with Finnish tribes like Paivansade and Rauhan Orkesteri, rich Om-ing Coltrane-isms, spiky No Wave blats that reinvent Rudolph Grey and Von Lmo's vision of free heavy metal..." -- David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
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Label:Family Vineyard - FV77
Format:Vinyl, LP, 33 1/3 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo
Country:US
Released:20 Sep 2011
NUMBER
Side A
1. Friendly Pants
2. Miwataseba (Look Around Look?)
Side B
1. Wild Chickens In The Lake M.
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In 2009 Family Vineyard released the first U.S. album by Japanese saxophone legend Akira Sakata in more than 20 years. That critically heralded release, Friendly Pants, was with Sakata's long running rhythm crew Chikamorachi -- drummer Chris Corsano (Paul Flaherty Duo, Bjork, Jandek, etc.) and acoustic bassist Darin Gray (On Fillmore, Grand Ulena, Brise-Glace, etc.). This LP is their follow-up. Recorded during the '09 Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago.
Live at Hungry Brain is an outrageous document by this brawling avant garde trio. Sakata, on alto/clarinet/ vocals, relentlessly pushes Corsano/Gray into the blackout zone where the body drops out and the spirit takes over. On each piece Sakata seemingly levitates higher into a cosmic zone while blasting out gorgeous melodic shapes -- even when he sings. Those who have followed Corsano and Gray's progression through the American rock, noise & free jazz underground will hear this LP as a pinnacle of their talent.
It's an exhilarating, deeply textured and exhausting listen only matched by the outlandish, yet spot-on, cover art by famed Japan illustrator More Rock All Art. Edition of 700 copies. Contains download code.
Recorded by David Zuchowski at The Hungry Brain in Chicago, Nov. 8, 2009 during the 4th annual Umbrella Music Festival.
Released: Sept 20, 2011
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Label: Presspop Music
Format: 12" vinyl record x2 / LIMITED
Jacket: Letterpress Print
JAN: 4560247870287
Release date: 6.30. 2011
NUMBER
VINYL ONE
A SIDE : Free Radical Sign/ Part 1 (12:35)
B SIDE : Free Radical Sign/ Part 2 (13:33)
VINYL TWO
C SIDE : Illusion from the Far East (18:21)
D SIDE : In a Babble (16:17)
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AN EAST MEETS WEST LEGENDARY AND MIND BLOWING LIVE SHOW OF JAPANESE ALTO SAXOPHONE FREE JAZZ EXTRAORDINAIRE: AKIRA SAKATA, MEMBERS OF THE BAND TORTOISE: JEFF PARKER & JOHN HERNDON, AND NATE MCBRIDE. RECORDED AT THE 2009 UMBRELLA MUSIC FESTIVAL IN CHICAGO, BROUGHT TO YOU AS 12" DOUBLE ANALOG.Every year, cutting edge jazz and avant-garde musicians from all over the world gather together for a few days to participate in the Umbrella Music Festival. The Chicago Reader lavishes praise on the festival, calling it, "the most important jazz festival in Chicago." Its 4th festival in the year 2009 was held from November 5th to 8th where heated improvisation battles were seen one after the other. Among the best of them, the once-in-a-lifetime session between Jeff Parker and John Herndon from the renowned local post-rock band, Tortoise, Nate Mcbride, and the free jazz extraordinaire, Akira Sakata, received special attention. This session knocked out the wits of the Chicago music fans who have an ear for music, and aroused much interest. John McEntire (Soma Electronic Music Studios)who was completely enthralled by the world created by the rare quartet of "Sakata/ Parker/ McBride/ Herndon" worked on the mixing, and thus this album came into existence.
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Daphnia Label DPCD-0005
JZ100831-51
September 15, 2010 release
2,500yen(include tax)
AKIRA SAKATA(as, acl,cl,bells,vo)
KYOKO KURODA(p,vo)
HIROAKI MIZUTANI(bs,vo)
NUMBER
1. Whale is?
2. I'm here!
3. Lake Mendota -dedicated to the late Dr. Stanley I. Dodson-
4. Lonely woman
5. A wolf came to me, said "No!"
6. Siciliano aus der 2 FlÖtensonate
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DATA
Produced by jim O'Rourke
Family Vineyard 2009 USA
NUMBER
Akira SAkata (as)
Darin Gray (bass)
Chris Corsano(drums)
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Produser Bill Laswell,Akira Sakata,Ronald Shannon Jackson,Robert Musso 1987.Dec.NY.
Akira Sakata(sax,piano etc.)
Bill Laswell(bass)
Ronald ""Shannon""Jackson(drums)
art work Shionro Otake
desighn Takuji Nomoto
2009 Bridge-136
NUMBER
1 Nichimo Satchimo
2 Hieyashi Bushi
3 Wann Kann Ich Sie wiedersehen
4 Hitsujikai No Bansan
5 Kibaminzoku
6 Mooko
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DATA
Original : HERE
NUMBER
1. Cosmic Zoom
2. Grandeur of microcosm under the chaos
3. Psy-Field:A
4. A strange life of Daphnia
5. T4-phage landed on the moon
6. Phase transition of KCI
7 Psy-Field:B
8 Micro-robot breaking into laughter
9 Vicissitudes
10 Voices of "Super strings"
11 Nano Space Odyssey
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Label/Distributor Geneon Entertainment
Original Release Year 2005
Running Time 64 minutes
Data Format DVD Video
Format NTSC Format
Region Code 2 (Japan, Europe, Middle East, and South Africa only)
Subtitles None
Audio Track Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0c
NUMBER
content
1. The name 2. Eye & Brain 3. Mouth, Gut & Anus 4. Heart & Blood 5. Classification 6. Reproduction 7. Sampling & Observation 8. Water fleas of different species 9. Epilogue
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Label : Bridge
Musicians:
Akira Sakata, Semba Kiyohiko, Chino Shuichi, Kawabata Tamio, Fujio Yoshiko, Ichie Hamamoto
NUMBER
SIDE A
1.Hoijaga 2.Baseball love 3.Atami no yoru ha fukete(hakozaki Shinichiro ni sasagu) 4.Senaka made 45 fun 5.Ohyakusyoikki no Shibire GALSIDE B
1. Mona Lisa2.Seichun ha runrun
3.Ogenki desuka
4.Yogisha ni higanbana
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DDCJ-7002 B.J.L.(bounDEE)
MUsicians:Jim O'Rourke,Akira Sakata, Yoshimio
Recorded at Pitinn TOKYO 2006
Edited and Remixed by Jim O'Rourke 2007
Producer: Jim O'Rourke
A&R: Takashi Tannaka(bounDEE/B.J.L)
Recording engineer: Yoichi Tokunaga
Mastering engineer: Atsuo Fujita(Wonder Station)
Coordination: Yoko Yamabe
Cover art painting:Bikky Sunazawa
Design:Takafumi Kitsuda
NUMBER
1.Dancing sea lions2,
2.A vessel on a foggy night
3.HAGYOU~hukuwa-Uchi~Hamabe no Uta
4.The water pipes burst in the cold weather
5.Mother and who All songs composed by Jim 'Rourke,Akira Sakata and Yoshimio except Hamabe-no-Uta.
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GNCD-0002
producer:Minoru Kamata(JCF)
music producer:Akira Sakata
Recorded at Wonder Station Tokyo on Dec.6.7.'07
Recordin and Mixng engineer Yasoo Morimoto
Mastered by Yuka Koizumi (Orange)
A&R Toru Watanabe
Art derection & design:CHEAP POP
Art work :Hutori KImiyoshi(grAphic tAkora)
NUMBER
1,Omusubi music by A.Sakata
2,My Funny Valentine music by Richard Rodgers
3,The Twin Staras wards&music
by Kenji Miyazawa
4,All That the Man left Behind When He Died word by Syuntaro Tanikawa music by Toru Takemitu
5,Memories of You music by Eubie Blake
bonus truck Omusubi(soft salted version)
total time 41'37"
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YUME der Traum DPCD0004 2007.9.
Producer: Akira Sakata
Recorded at Keiseian Kyoto
Recorded on 4.November 2006
Recoding &mixing engineer: Kiyokuni Kamon
Masterd by Arata Imoto
Art work :"Kokotsu-moji" "Utopia" by Humiko Hori
Artwork coordination : Nakajima Arts
Designed by Katsuhiro Kinoshita from design Club
NUMBER
1.Hamabe no Uta comp.by T. Narita
2.Ave Maria comp.by J.S.Bach-Gounod
3.Junko no Asa comp.by A.Sakata
4.Yume(der Traum) comp.by A.Sakata
5.Kaigara-bushi trad.folk song
6.Yesterday PaulMcCartney
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this "der Traume"was originally made for private edition for mourning Mrs. Masako Kojima(84years old) who was passsed by cancer on Summer 2006 in Kyoto.
Masako-san was a owner of "Keiseian" which was remodeled to very samll private hall from old japanese stile shed(Kura).Holl is fulled up with 40 peaples .
My band "mii" and myself played at Keiseian several times in which more than 100 yaers old Steinway placed for her two granddaughter's piano lesson.Masako-san and her doughter in law Husae-san baught that Steinway as thier belongings by Air in Wien Austria.
The house of Kojima-san is very interesting "machiya"style which is a kind of marchnt house in Kyoto.
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Shakaijin Columbia COCB53655
producwed,recorded,mixed by Jim O'Rourke
Recorded at Magnet studio,Tokyo on August 9th 2006.
Mixed at Sear sound NY.in March 2007
Mastered by Atsushi Mori at Columbia mastering in May 2007
All songs written by Akira Sakata,Chris Corsano&
Darin Gray except#3 witten by Alira Sakata and Chris Corsano & #5 Written by Akira Sakata & Darin Gray
Cover painting by Atsuko Tanaka
Designed by Takashi Igarashi(50ban Graphics)
NUMBER
1. Friendly Pants
2. Un
3. In case,Let's go to Galaxy
4. That day of rain
5. With Saigyo parh
6.Yo Yo Dime
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MTCJ-3029
Music producer:Akira Sakata & Jim O'Rourke
Recorded on 22.April 2005 at Pit inn Tokyo
Recording engineer: ZAK
Mixing engineer : Jim O'Rourke
Mastering engineer:Seiji Kaneko for Kingrecords Sekiguchi Studio
Cover art : tomoo gokita
Art direction &designer: wataru noritake
Producer,A&R:Takashi Tannaka(P.J.L.)
Co-producer,Coordinato
NUMBER
1.Eddy Bear
2.BascheLor of Divinity
3.Tombouctou
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DATA
GNCD-0001
Manufactured by JCF "GANBARANAI"Label
jcf@jca.apc.org
http://www.jca.apc.org/jcf/
recorded on February 7.8.2006
recorded&mixed by Yasowo Morimoto
mastered at Studio Orange by Yuka Koizumi
art direction & design CHEAP POP
illustration by TAKORA(grAphic tAkorA)
NUMBER
1.Loss of Love
2.Miagetegoran yoruno hoshio
3.Wedding March
4.Tokuhe ikitai
5.All that the man left behind when he died
6.Sosyunfu
7.Jerry Fish
extra,Air on the G string
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MTCJ-3026
Producer,A&R Takashi Tannaka(P.J.L)
Music producer Akira Sakata&Jim O'rourke
Recorded on 21.April 2005 at Pit inn Tokyo
Recording engineer: ZAK
Mixed and Remixed by Jim O'Rourke at Studio streamroom Brooklyn NY 13,14,15,16,July 2005
mastering engineer:Seiji Kaneko for King Records Sekiguchi Studio
Cover art : tomoo gokita
Art direction &designer: wataru noritake
2,700yen
NUMBER
1. luciferin
2. deficiency
3. crotlotoxin
4. syuzen
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DATA
Akira Sakata solo
(alt sax,clarinet,bass clarinet,voice)
NUMBER
1. JMCK-1020
I
II
III
2. JMCK-1021
IV
V
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