Michiyo Yagi also appears in several different ensembles on the recently
released 4-cd compilation, "The Festival Beyond Innocence cd Series: A
Brief History in 67 Chapters" on Innocent Records (FBI 102, 103, 104 &
105, four compact discs, 2002). FBI (Festival Beyond Innocence) is an
imprint of the Innocence (formerly Zenbai) label of Kazuhisa Uchihashi.
The Festival is held annually in the fall in Kobe, Japan and is curated by
Uchihashi Kazuhisa of Altered States and many other ensembles.
This compilation features pieces from the 1996, 97, 98, 99, and 2000
Festivals and, while I have only listened to disc three so far (just
arrived in the mail yesterday), that much (all of it) is just great. In
addition to Michiyo Yagi, all sorts of folks with instant name recognition
on this list (Eugene Chadbourne, Steve Beresford, Han Bennink, Joelle
Leandre, Haino Keiji, Otomo Yoshihide, RUINS, Elliott Sharp, Bob Ostertag,
Martin Tétreault, KK Null etc) have appeared at the Festival and are
represented on the compilation.
Here is the track information:
disc one (October 9 & 10, 1996 & October 10 & 11, 1997)
1. Otomo Yoshihide, Iwasaki Tetsuji & Kojima Takashi
2. Bidziliba (Fuchigami Junko, Furutaro, Era Mari, & Funato Hiroshi)
3. Umezu Kazutoki & Otani Yasuhiro
4. Psychoacoustic (Elliott Sharp & Zeena Parkins)
5. Tanaka Yumiko, Samm Bennett & Uchihashi Kazuhisa
6. Suonomono (Akamatsu Masayuki, Yamaji Atsushi, Kitahara Keiichi &
Kitahara Takayuki)
7. Ruins (Yoshida Tatsuya & Sasaki Hisashi) & Otomo Yoshihide
8. Royal Queezit (Emi Eleonola, Katsui Yuji) & Yagi Michiyo
9. Omoide Hatoba (Yamamoto Seiichi, Tsuyama Atsushi, Atari & Ogushi Takashi)
10. Tsuyama Atsushi, Takara Kumiko & Era Mari
11. Emi Eleonola & Samm Bennett
12. Bob Ostertag & Otomo Yoshihide
13. Chino Shuichi & Yamamoto Seiichi
14. Martin Tétreault & Uchihashi Kazuhisa
15. Kam-pas-nel-la (Haco, Zeena Parkins, Samm Bennett, Uchihashi Kazuhisa)
16. Leonid Soybelman, Nasuno Mitsuru, & Ichiraku Yoshimitsu
disc two (October 10 & 11, 1997 & November 21 & 22, 1998)
1. Hans Reichel
2. Machida Ko, Yamamoto Seiichi & Uchihashi Kazuhisa
3. Katsui Yuji & Kinoshita Kazushige
4. Chiku Toshiaki, Haco & Takara Kumiko
5. Makigami Koichi & Thomas Buckner
6. Hans Reichel
7. Wono Satoru & Matsuzaki Junichi
8. 30th Century (Kawabata Minoru, Inada Makoto & Yuko Nexus 6)
9. Pon (Uemura Masahiro, Hirose Junji, Takara Kumiko, Tzuboguchi Masayasu &
Shimizu Rei)
10. Hikutasu (Chiku Toshiaki, Ezaki Masafumi, Sekijima Takero, Ogata Takero
& Uchihashi Kazuhisa)
11. Tanaka Yumiko & Kido Natsuki
12. Kingjoe (Sasaki Hideaki & Masuko Tatsuki) & Diesel Guitar
13. Happiness Proof (Haco, Tsuyama Atsushi, Christopher Stephens & Ichiraku
Yoshimitsu) & Sotoyama Akira
14. Harpy (Itoken, Kyoko, Onotetsu & Suzuki)
15. Kawabata Makoto
16. Makigami Koichi & Altered States (Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Nasuno Mitsuru, &
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)
17. Tzuboguchi Masayasu & Iwata Ko
18. Hans Reichel, Harada Takashi & Samm Bennett
disc three (November 21 & 22, 1998 & November 20 & 21, 1999)
1. Steve Beresford & Altered States (Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Nasuno Mitsuru, &
Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)
2. Helge Hinteregger, Yagi Michiyo, & Era Mari
3. Haino Keiji, Tuyama Atsushi & Samm Bennett
4. Kang Tae Hwan & Enka (Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)
5. Steve Beresford
6. Chino Shuichi & Uchihashi Kazuhisa
7. Phantasmagoria (Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Iwata Ko, Ezaki Masafumi, Ando
Makiko, Inada Makoto, Kojima Takashi, Ichiraku Yoshimitsu)
8. Haino Keiji & Inada Makoto
9. Pa-pa (Inada Makoto, Katori Koichiro & Mizutani Yasuhisa)
10. Imai Kazuo
11. Ando Makiko, Yuko Nexus 6 & Unami Taku
12. Guitar Panic! (Haino Keiji, KK Null, Imahori Tsuneo & Uchihashi Kazuhisa)
13. Steve Beresford
14. Haco & Coa (Eddie & Bill)
15. Yanagawa Yoshinori & Katori Koichiro
16. Ne Zhdali (Leonid Soybelman, Andrei Kulagin, Ilya Komarov, Oleg
Davidovitch, Vadim Veeremaa & Vitaly Redchits)
disc four (November 21 & 22, 1998 & November 18 & 19, 2000)
1. Kakitsubata (Tagawa Masayasu, Tanimoto Syunsuke, Inoue Hideki, Nakayama
Hironari, Nisikawa Bunsyo)
2. Eugene Chadbourne & Samm Bennett
3. Joelle Leandre & Era Mari
4. Formant Brothers (Miwa Masahiro & Sakonda Nobuyasu)
5. Skist (Ito Haruna & Samm Bennett) & Kang Tae Hwan
6. Shelley Hirsch, Takahashi Yuji, & Uchihashi Kazuhisa
7. Eugene Chadbourne, Yamamoto Seiichi & Yagi Michiyo
8. Chou (Kimura Fumihiko, Kojima Takashi & Ezaki Masafumi)
9. Hose (Unami Taku, Hattori Reiji, Izumi Tomoya, Koike Toshihiro, Ezaki
Masafumi)
10. Won Jiksoo, Yamamoto Seiichi, Kawabata Minoru & Ichiraku Yoshimitsu
11. Hannoda Taku
12. Han Bennink, Uchihashi Kazuhisa & Ezaki Masafumi
13. Mutant (Iwata Ko, Mizutani Yasuhisa, Inoue Satoshi, Uchihashi Kazuhisa)
& Haco
14. Joelle Leandre, Chino Shuichi & Unami Taku
15. Fuchigami to Funato (Fuchigami Junko & Funato Hiroshi) & Tanaka Yumiko
16. Kang Tae Hwan, Yamamoto Seiichi & Inada Makoto
17. Purist (Yamamoto Seiichi & Uchihashi Kazuhisa)
This cd set was available at the 2002 Festival.
Currently, it is only available by sending $70 (U.S.) (including shipping) to
Uchihashi Kazuhisa
463-305
Negishi-cho
Machida-shi
Tokyo, Japan
That's how I got my copy.
David K.