Osaka Bridge

by Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Osaka Bridge cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 May 2006
  • Label: Karaoke Kalk
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 48:22
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Osaka Bridge' documents a collaborative meeting between Scottish jazz composer Bill Wells and the Japanese avant-folk collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Released through the German label Karaoke Kalk, the album captures a joyful, intentionally amateurish approach to chamber jazz and experimental pop. The arrangements are exceptionally warm and quirky, thriving on soft, slightly dissonant acoustic interplay.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, melodic, acoustic, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. Rye & Guy (4:53)
  2. Tipsy Cat (2:43)
  3. The Dust Of Months (2:37)
  4. Duck (1:04)
  5. On The Beach Boys Bus (1:47)
  6. Oddults (1:46)
  7. Liquorice Tics (2:14)
  8. Poxy (4:53)
  9. Time Takes Me So Back (3:51)
  10. Family Sighs (1:42)
  11. Stabbed In Hamburg (1:49)
  12. The Williams Sisters (0:37)
  13. Cowtail Calypso (1:38)
  14. Banned Announcement (1:57)
  15. On The Beach Boys Bus (Reprise) (3:29)
  16. Loitering With Intent - Early Version (6:29)
  17. Time Takes Me So Back (4:45)

Credits

  • Namio Kudo - drums, computer [laptop]
  • Natsumi Kudo - trumpet, french horn
  • Shiro Kobayashi - trumpet, whistle
  • Reiko Kudo - vocals, music by
  • Tori Kudo - vocals, clarinet, melodica, percussion, music by
  • Nobuki Yamamoto - trumpet [slide]
  • Bill Wells - Primary Artist
  • Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Primary Artist
  • Annie Whitehead - Music By
  • Barbara Morgenstern - Music By
  • Stefan Schneider - Music By
  • Jad Fair - artwork [cover art], layout
  • Norman Blake - mastered by
  • Bunsho Nishikawa - recorded by

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