Teiji Ito – The Shamanic Principles

Label:	Tzadik – TZ 8048
Series:	Composer Series
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	US
Released:	2008
Genre:	Stage & Screen
Style:	Abstract, Score, Experimental

Tracklist

1	Axis Mundi Rattle [Horn, Boar Tooth, Deer], Trumpet [Bamboo], Performer [Vaccines, Kokoriko], Whistle [Cricket], Drums [Hand], Bullroarer, Conch [Conch Shells], Berimbau, Shaker, Wind [Duck Calls], Kazoo, Kalimba [Thumb Piano], Jew's Harp, Percussion [Ratchets, Rasps, Scrapers, Stones, Miscellaneous], Cymbal [Tibet], Ocarina [Double], Flute, Flute [Quena, Peruvian, Eaglebone], Shakuhachi, Whistling, Cuica, Voice – Dan Erkkila, Genji Ito, Teiji Ito Rattle [Horn, Boar Tooth, Deer], Trumpet [Bamboo], Performer [Vaccines, Kokoriko], Whistle [Cricket], Drums [Hand], Bullroarer, Conch [Conch Shells], Berimbau, Shaker, Wind [Duck Calls], Kazoo, Kalimba [Thumb Piano], Jew's Harp, Percussion [Ratchets, Rasps, Scrapers, Stones, Miscellaneous], Cymbal [Tibet], Ocarina [Double], Flute, Flute [Quena, Peruvian, Eaglebone], Shakuhachi, Whistling, Cuica, Voice – Dan Erkkila, Genji Ito, Teiji Ito	32:50
	Quetzalcoatl	(30:15)
2	I Opening Chant/Gemstones	5:24
3	II Toltec Flute Medley	3:15
4	III The Story Of Quetzalcoatl	13:37
5	IV Travel Song/A Great White Eagle	7:52

Credits

Composed By, Performer, Conductor, Recorded By, Artwork, Other [Scores] – Teiji Ito
Design – Heung-Heung Chin
Executive-Producer [Associate] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Flute – Unknown Flutist*
Liner Notes – Cherel Ito, Teiji Ito
Mastered By – Scott Hull (2)
Other [Materials Made Available By] – Guy Klucevsek
Producer – John Zorn
Voice, Frame Drum, Conch [Conch Shell], Clarinet, Percussion – Teiji Ito (tracks: 2 to 5)
Voice, Narrator [Narration], Percussion – Diane (5) (tracks: 2 to 5)

Notes

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.