This album, the first under the band's name in six and a half years, is a jazz alternative album with a multilingual and hardcore taste that differs greatly from previous albums.

The recording for this album started in June 2020, during a period when many of our activities were being cancelled due to COVID-19. It had been a while since I last met or played with the members of this band, with whom prior to the pandemic I would regularly get together for gigs at various venues or travel around the country every summer to perform at regional festivals. I also asked friends who lived far away to remotely take part in this project. I called upon everyone, of course, because I wanted to make music with them, but also as a way to just stay in touch. The project began at a time when I desperately missed being around my friends and colleagues. On both a conscious and unconscious level, the compositions, mixing, and the overall album structure reflect on what was happening around us in Japan and in the rest of the world during this time. An underlying theme for this album was, How can we respond to global events that we see on the news with an urgency as if they were happening nearby I wanted the distribution of this album and how its profits were split to also address these same issues, which motivated me to release it on my new label, Little Stone Records.

Otomo Yoshihide, guitar, turntable (1), banjo (9)
Eto Naoko, piano, horn arrangement (3)
Kondo Tatsuo, organ
Saito Kan, flute
Inoue Nashie, clarinet
Suzuki Hiroshi, sax, horn arrangement (2)
Egawa Ryoko, sax
Higashi Ryota, sax
Sato Shutoku, trumpet
Imagome Osamu, trombone
Kimura Jinya, tuba
Okuchi Shunsuke, accordion
Kawai Shinobu, bass
Kobayashi Takefumi, drums
Itoken, drums (1,3,5,6,8)
Uehara Nanae, marimba, percussion
Aikawa Hitomi, percussion
Sachiko M, sine waves


Chris Pitsiokos, alto sax (1,8)
Rully Shabara (Senyawa), voice(8)
Wukir Suryadi (Senyawa), self-built instruments(8) Ruike Shinpei, trumpet (3,8)
Yoshida Nonoko, alto sax (3,8)
Yuen Cheewai, electronics (6,9), gamelan(6), guitar (9)
Yan Jun, voice (6,9)
Ryu Hankil, electronics (6,9)
dj sniff, field recording in Hong Kong 29 sept 2014 (9)
Kahimi Karie and Niki, voice & happiness (9)

Tracklist
01 - Stone Stone Stone
02 - Kanashikute Yarikirenai
03 - Music for Kinue Hitomi
04 - Annees de solitude
05 - Song for Che ~ Reducing Agent
06 - Ginga
07 - Music for Taiji Tonoyama
08 - Gallophy
09 - Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong




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