"For Japanese people, min'yo is both the closest, and most distant, folk music" explains band-leader Katsumi Tanaka. 180g heavy vinyl pressing, reverse board jacket, printed inner sleeve with lyrics in Japanese and English. Mastering and lacquer cut by Jukka Sarapaa at Timmion Cutting Lab, Helsinki, Finland. Pressed at Optimal Media, Germany.Yasushi Ide's second album, released in 1998, which was recorded after traveling around the world to Tokyo, New York, Nashville, and Kingston, will be available on LP for the first time! The CD became a hot topic both in Japan and overseas at the time, and was released worldwide through WEA France.The first live album by The Cosmic Suite Ensemble, led by Yasushi Ide. Contains a live recording of the 36-minute album Yasushi Ide/Cosmic Suite," released last year, reproduced entirely with live performances. The suite of jazz, dub, funk, afro and techno is further elevated to a chaotic cosmic suite through improvisation.