日本即興音樂雜誌2005.（附雙CD）

The 2005 edition of the annual Japanese-English magazine Improvised Music from Japan is devoted entirely to recent albums. Over 350 releases (with a cover photo for each) are presented. The albums, mainly from 2004-2005, span a wide range of styles--improv, onkyo, noise, electronics, contemporary classical, free jazz, avant-rock, and more. While contributions from music critics are numerous, this is not just a collection of reviews. Musicians write about their own and other artists' works, label owners about their labels . . . The articles' styles and points of view are as diverse as the albums they present. IMJ 2005 also includes 2 CDs with a total of 21 tracks--by PsysEx, Jio Shimizu, Tetsuya Umeda, mills, sim, Toshihiro Koike, Shuichi Ohori, Chihiro Wada, Toshiya Tsunoda, Kiyoshi Mizutani, VOIMA, Bunsho Nishikawa and Tim Olive, m/s (Minoru Sato), Yasuo Totsuka, Diver, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura, Tomomi Adachi, The Cinngirls, aspects, Yui Kimijima, and Merzbow.

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Track list of attached CDs

Disc 1

PsysEx - #460 (4:41)

First released on Polyrhythm_system Exclusive Message 2 (Ryoondo-tea, DES 024)

Jio Shimizu - One Million Dots (6:55)

Tetsuya Umeda - Error Piano (10:28)

Yasuhisa Mizutani: piano

Tetsuya Umeda: loitering around the piano, carrying a portable radio

mills - Day (3:10)

aen: computer, mixer

bike boy: Stick

INOnation: guitar

Recorded live at Metro, Kyoto, 2003

Reprocessed by aen, September 2005

sim - UNT (6:10)

Teruyuki Oshima: guitar, computer

Yoshio Otani: electronics

Masahiro Uemura: drums

Recorded live by Hayato Aoki at Grapefruit Moon, March 15, 2005

Toshihiro Koike - 6pm_33Ž (6:42)

Toshihiro Koike: trombone

Recorded in 2005

Shuichi Ohori - They Shoot the Blame (6:08)

Shuichi Ohori: keyboard, MD, laptop

Recorded at Curtain of Cards Studio, November 2004

Chihiro Wada - Hikoboshi (5:31)

Chihiro Wada: vocal, ukulele, drums

Recorded by Yuichi Kishino at Ace Studio, July 2005

Toshiya Tsunoda - Three Stationary Waves from My Living Room (6:38)

Recorded in October 2000 using a piezo microphone and a portable DAT

No editing

Kiyoshi Mizutani - Jamokamo Festival (8:22)

Recorded in Namamugi, Yokohama, using a microphone (AT822) and a DAT (TCD-D7), June 5, 2005

Mixed on June 11, 2005

Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura, August 29, 2005

Disc 2

VOIMA - unsettledfrm (6:57)

Yasufumi Suzuki: VAIO

Tetsuro Yasunaga: Powerbook

Recorded in August 2005

Bunsho Nishikawa/Tim Olive -- Ushitsuki (4:31)

Recorded by Bunsho Nishikawa at Bridge, Osaka, June 2005

m/s (Minoru Satoh) - Linear Manifold (Multiple Version) (5:53)

Recorded in 1994

Yasuo Totsuka - Mame (4:46)

Recorded on July 17, 2005

Diver - "Hypogeous Sound 02" Concert (Short Version) (6:42)

Kenichi Matsumoto: sax

Natsuki Tamura: trumpet

Daisuke Takaoka: tuba

Recorded live by Hisashi Terauchi at Oya Stone Museum, Utsunomiya, April 29, 2004

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura - Ears Ring (5:53)

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura: microphone feedback

Recorded by Mitsuhiro Yoshimura directly onto PC, May 2005

Tomomi Adachi - mhoi (8:00)

Tomomi Adachi: tomoring, voice, computer

Recorded in June 2005

The Cinngirls, aka The Cinnamon Girls, aka Cinnamon -- "Suicide" Orca remix (1:43)

Kanoko: vocals

DJ Radial Axis: acoustic guitar

Remixed by Jonathan Segel at Magnetic Satellite Studio, Oakland, CA

The Cinngirls appear courtesy of Lewis Recordings

"Suicide" lyrics and music (c) 2004 Brett Larner (SOCAN)

aspects - & aspects & 2/3 (extract) (7:33)

Takuji Kawai: composition, keyboard-harmonica

Michio Karimata: flute

Nobuhiro Nakane: trombone

Neko Kaneko: trombone

Michito Arinaga: tuba

Recorded at the rehearsal on April 14, 2005, for the concert "& aspects & vol. 2/3," Tokyo, April 17, 2005

Yui Kimijima - Today (7:06)

Recorded by Yuta Inoue at Kimijima's Studio, Izu, May 2005

Merzbow - Excerpt from Death of 250,000 Chickens (7:03)

Music by Masami Akita

Recorded and mixed in his bedroom, Tokyo, May 2005

Mastered by Toshimaru Nakamura, August 30, 2005

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Last updated: January 8, 2006