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Teiji Ito
The Shamanic Principles

Album US 2008 on Tzadik label
Soundtrack (Abstract, Score, Experimental)

Axis Mundi recorded at The Chapel, Center Stage, Baltimore, 1982. Quetzalcoatl recorded in rehearsal c.1980. Tracks 2 to 5 feature an unknown flautist, possibly Dan Erkkila, and two unknown percussionists, possibly Genji Ito and Yukio Tsuji, who play water drum, gamelan, frame drum, various hand drums, finger cymbals, bass drum, shakers, triangle, gongs, berimbau, xylophone, log drum, woodblocks, steel drum, drum set, sleight bells, bells, thumb piano, glockenspiel, and miscellaneous percussion. All materials are used by permission from the Ito Estate. These recordings were made available for release through the kind cooperation of the Teiji Ito Collection of Noncommercial Recordings, c.1952-1982 at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound/The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Teiji Ito Estate. Axis Mundi was first released by Steve Peters on ¿What Next? in 1996. Special thanks to Guy Klucevsek, Steve Peters, Sara Velez, Tom Christie and of course Tavia Ito.

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	Teiji Ito , 1935-1982 JP composed by, performer, conductor, recorded by, artwork, other, scores, liner notes, voice, frame drum, clarinet, percussion, conch, conch shell, album by, bullroarer, berimbau, shaker, kazoo, jew's harp, flute, shakuhachi, whistling, cuica, voice, flute, quena, peruvian, eaglebone, ocarina, double, cymbal, tibet, percussion, ratchets, rasps, scrapers, stones, miscellaneous, kalimba, thumb piano, wind, duck calls, conch, conch shells, drums, hand, whistle, cricket, performer, vaccines, kokoriko, trumpet, bamboo, rattle, horn, boar tooth, deer
	Unknown Artist flute
	Guy Klucevsek acc, *1947 US other, materials made available by
	Diane voice, percussion, narrator, narration
	Dan Erkkila fl, bullroarer, berimbau, shaker, kazoo, jew's harp, flute, shakuhachi, whistling, cuica, voice, flute, quena, peruvian, eaglebone, ocarina, double, cymbal, tibet, percussion, ratchets, rasps, scrapers, stones, miscellaneous, kalimba, thumb piano, wind, duck calls, conch, conch shells, drums, hand, whistle, cricket, performer, vaccines, kokoriko, trumpet, bamboo, rattle, horn, boar tooth, deer
	Genji Ito , bullroarer, berimbau, shaker, kazoo, jew's harp, flute, shakuhachi, whistling, cuica, voice, flute, quena, peruvian, eaglebone, ocarina, double, cymbal, tibet, percussion, ratchets, rasps, scrapers, stones, miscellaneous, kalimba, thumb piano, wind, duck calls, conch, conch shells, drums, hand, whistle, cricket, performer, vaccines, kokoriko, trumpet, bamboo, rattle, horn, boar tooth, deer

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