Live in Japan (Material album)

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Live in Japan
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Live album by
Released1993
Recorded Shinjuku Pit Inn, Kyoto & Imabari on August 2,5 & 7 1992
Genre No Wave
Label Jimco, Japan, JICK-89225
Producer Bill Laswell
Material chronology
The Third Power
(1991)
Live in Japan
(1993)
Hallucination Engine
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [2]

Live in Japan is a 1993 live album by the New York based No Wave music group Material.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Invocation" (Bernie Worrell) – 5:21
  2. "Leaving Earth" (Foday Musa Suso, Bill Laswell) – 6:39
  3. "Desert Star" (Suso, Laswell) – 9:38
  4. "Out of the Dreamtime" (Suso) – 5:29
  5. "Obsessed" (Ginger Baker, Aiyb Dieng) – 10:45
  6. "Into the Seventh House" (Suso, Laswell, Nicky Skopelitis) – 6:20
  7. "Dousongonni Song" (Suso) – 4:46
  8. "The Receiver" (Suso, Laswell, Skopelitis) – 8:06
  9. "The Creator Has a Master Plan" (Pharoah Sanders, Leon Thomas) – 8:50
  10. "The Image of the One" (Worrell) – 2:28

Personnel

Additional personnel

Production

Release history

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Hunter, James (1995). "Material". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 242–243. ISBN   0-679-75574-8.