Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto

Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto is volume 2 of Yohji Yamamoto's series of albums, The Show. The album features the solo violin work Yamamoto Perpetuo (a play on "moto perpetuo"), which Nyman has since adapted into the String Quartet No. 4 (originally appearing on the album, The Suit and the Photograph) and the orchestral work, Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks. The violin is played by Alexander Balanescu, and Nyman can be heard on one track, "Song L," at the piano.

The theme of The Show was "Cinderella", and Yamamoto desired "Some European folk element" in the score. At the time, Nyman had access only to some Scottish folk songs he had gathered but not used for The Piano, so three tunes, all of which happen to be in A-minor Aeolian mode, were worked into the score.^[1]

Because the album was a limited release in Japan, and not released in other parts of the world, it is something of a collector's item for Nyman fans.

An associated single, "Anohito no Waltz" was also released. The title track appears only on the single, while "Song L" appears as its B-side.

Track listing

M-1 song A 2'00"
M-2 song B 2'36"
M-3 song C 2'15"
M-4 song D 5'17"
M-5 song E 4'08"
M-6 song F 3'35"
M-7 song G 3'35"
M-8 song H 3'03"
M-9 song I 3'24"
M-10 song J 2'55"
M-11 song K 4'07"
M-12 song M 2'27"
M-13 song L 2'58"

Personnel

Music Composed and Produced by Michael Nyman
Violin: Alexander Balanescu
Piano: Michael Nyman
Recording Engineer: Michael J. Dutton
Recorded at Air Studios, London
Mastered by Michael J. Dutton at TRANSFERMATION, London
Production Supervision & Direction: Nobuyuki Takahashi
Production Management: Atsuko Hamazaki
Art Direction: Hisao Sugiura
Design: Hisao Sugiura, Yasunobu Kawajiri (Studio Super Compass)
London agent: Fumiya Sawa
Composer's representative: Nigel Barr, Michael Nyman Ltd.
General Producer: Yohji Yamamoto
Special thanks to Yohji Yamamoto Inc., Studio Super Compass, Super Muzak

References

↑ Michael Nyman. The Suit and the Photograph. EMI Records, 1998. Liner Notes pp. 2-3.

Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman Band - current members	Gabrielle Lester Catherine Thompson Kate Musker Tony Hinnigan David Roach Simon Haram Andrew Findon Nigel Barr Dave Lee Steve Sidwell Martin Elliott Sarah Leonard

Former members and others	Alexander Bălănescu John Harle Chris Laurence Ann Morfee Jonathan Carney Madeleine Mitchell Jamie Talbot Georgina Born Marjorie Dunn Beverley Davison Barry Guy John Greaves Andrew Shulman Michael Thompson Richard Watkins John Metcalfe Christian Forshaw Ute Lemper Marie Angel Hilary Summers Omar Ebrahim David Cunningham Molly Nyman

Nyman-produced albums	Decay Music 'The Masterwork' Award Winning Fish-Knife Michael Nyman The Draughtsman's Contract The Cold Room The Kiss and Other Movements A Zed & Two Noughts And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Drowning by Numbers La Traversée de Paris The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover Out of the Ruins La Sept String Quartets 1–3 Prospero's Books The Michael Nyman Songbook The Hairdresser's Husband The Essential Michael Nyman Band Time Will Pronounce The Piano Michael Nyman for Yohji Yamamoto The Piano Concerto/MGV À la folie Live Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs Carrington The Diary of Anne Frank After Extra Time The Ogre Enemy Zero Concertos Gattaca The Suit and the Photograph Strong on Oaks, Strong on the Causes of Oaks Practical Magic Ravenous Wonderland The Commissar Vanishes Nabbie's Love The End of the Affair The Claim String Quartets 2, 3 & 4/If & Why Facing Goya 24 Heures de la vie d'une femme Sangam: Michael Nyman Meets Indian Masters The Actors Man and Boy: Dada The Piano Sings The Libertine The Composer's Cut Series Vol. I: The Draughtsman's Contract The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited The Composer's Cut Series Vol. III: The Piano Six Celan Songs • The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi Acts of Beauty • Exit no Exit Nyman Brass Love Counts Mozart 252 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi The Glare Acoustic Accordions Collections The Composer's Cut Series Vol. IV: Vertov Sounds

Albums to which Nyman contributed (as composer and/or performer)	Recent English Experimental Music The Pavilion of Dreams From The Kitchen Archives - New Music New York 1979 The Sensual World Saxophone Works John Harle's Saxophone Songbook Piano Circus The Contemporary Trumpet Taking a Line for a Second Walk Plus que Tango Visions First & Foremost An Eye for a Difference Pick It Up Meeting Point: The Saxophone Concertos of Nyman, Heath and Torke Twentieth-Century Blues: The Songs of Noel Coward Generation Sex The Golden Section Faces Ahn-Plugged Groovebox Moving On

Singles/EPs	Mozart/Webern The Heart Asks Pleasure First/The Promise Anohito no Waltz In Re Don Giovanni Enemy Zero Piano Sketches

Compilations	Michael Nyman Pure Moods The Very Best of Michael Nyman: Film Music 1980–2001 Man on Wire

Additional operas	Tristram Shandy Letters, Riddles and Writs Vital Statistics La Princesse de Milan

Unreleased film scores	Vertical Features Remake The Falls Brimstone and Treacle Ballet Mécanique Monsieur Hire Mesmer Katie and Orbie Titch Act Without Words I Man with a Movie Camera Nathalie... À propos de Nice A Cock and Bull Story

Major individual compositions	Memorial MGV

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