Yoshihide Otomo - Ground Zero (self-titled 1st) (1993)

Quite a few will agree that Japan's experimental rock/jazz musicians enjoyed their affairs best in early 1990's. Such technological instruments as electronics and turntables are more of ways of free (in terms of ideas) improvisation than of acoustic effects, which I believe is their characteristics.

Info from
Improvised Music from Japan
Ground Zero

(God Mountain, GMCD 002) (CD)

1. Ground-Zero 890604 (4:29)
2. China White (1:01)
3. Lam Cheng-Ying/Yuen-Wah (5:17)
4. WJAZ-1 (2:27)
5. Chronicle-1 (1:26)
Double quartet (left: Zorn, Otomo, Kato, and Buck; right: Hirose, Otomo, Kato, and Uemura)
6. Eclipse (0:44)
7. Massacring (1:26)
8. M-Project (0:29)
9. Ground-Zero (4:01)
10. G-Project (1:38)
11. WJAZ-2 (2:41)
12. Chronicle-2 (1:45)
13. Euthanasia Drive (1:12)
14. Topography of the Black Lungs (0:38)
15. Sniper XR. (0:47)
16. I X Love II B.S.: M-Project 2 (0:57)
17. Silanganan Ingay: G-Project 2 (1:40)
18. Stranger Than Tokyo (3:19)
19. Ground-Zero Presents Ground-Zero (4:32)
20. Ground-Zero: Hong Kong-Tokyo, June 91 (5:09)

Ground Zero
Yoshihide Otomo: turntables (1-7, 10-13, 17, 19), guitar (1, 3, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19), sampler (12), CD (16, 18), tape (18), DAT (20)
Hideki Kato: bass (1-5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18-20), el-vo (15)
Masahiro Uemura: drums (1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 13-15, 18, 19), metal (20)
Junji Hirose: tenor sax (2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 13, 17-20), soprano sax (9, 19)
Shuichi Chino: synthesizer (1, 2, 18), computer (1), piano (18), prepared piano (3, 20)

Guests
Eye Yamatsuka: vocals (2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19)
John Zorn: alto sax (4, 5, 10, 11, 15), vocal (4)
Tony Buck: drums (4, 5, 11)
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone (18)
Shu-Kei: narration (18)

All music by Otomo, except Zorn, Otomo, Kato, and Buck (4, 11); Otomo and Yamatsuka (6); Yamatsuka, Otomo, Kato, Uemura (8, 14); Zorn, Hirose, and Otomo (10); Zorn, Otomo, Kato, Uemura, and Yoshiaki Kondo (15); Hirose, Yamatsuka, and Otomo (17); Otomo, Chino, Hirose, Kato, and Uemura (20)

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK SOUND in Tokyo, February-May 1992, except 7 recorded by Otomo at Lost Space in Tokyo, May 1991
Design: Ryuco Amaki
Photography: Lim Soowoong
Produced by Masaki Morishita

Released 1993