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Release Date: 1996Label: God Mountain
Recorded at Hachijo Island, autumn 1994+ March 1995.Mastered at Kojima Recordings, March 1995.
Described in the booklet as "Taiko & Song of Hachijojima".
Description from Forced Exposure:
Indigenous music from Hachijojima, a small island south of Tokyo, performed on drums, with vocal chanting. "Hachijo drumming is a form where two players play a two sided barrel drum, one player being rhythm, while the other improvises thus creating a unique form... Taiko drumming is a tradition that has passed down through the centuries refining itself from log rhythms in ancient days to the traditional drums now... an ancient expression of the Japanese sense of beat."
Catalog# printed on the CD and artwork is actually gmcd*021, but listed on the label's website as GMCD-021. It's a typical way they used to print catalog numbers on their products.