Mist of Flying Elbow

 

 

 

 

• Label: Super-Invisible Records
• Catalog: SIR-1092
• Released: April 1, 2001
• Format: CD

Tracks

1. (Untitled Intro) - 2:01
2. I Can’t Sing in English! - 3:47
3. Съеденная маленькая птица - 3:59
4. 中島さん、再びヒットミー (Nakajima-san, futatabi hittomī) - 4:17
5. 小さな犬の昼食時間 (Chīsana inu no chūshoku jikan) - 3:33
6. Rondo from Flute Concerto No. 1 - 2:19
7. Ghlüshknerzh - 3:12
8. Mist of Flying Elbow - 16:51
9. (Untitled Outro) - 1:58

Credits

Mist of Flying Elbow

• Himiko Nakazaki — Vocals, flute, keyboards, programming
• Leonard “Lefty” Lumumba — Guitar, percussion, electronics
• Teppo Leppäluoto — Bass

Guest musicians

• Simone Al-Qazr — Drums, shouting
• Unidentified stranger — Vocals, percussion

Notes

Recorded at Razor Thin Margin Studios by Luther Fries. Mixed by Mist of Flying Elbow with Luther Fries. Russian translation by Zhenya Korashenko. All tracks written by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Leppäluoto except 6 (Mozart, arr. Lumumba).

• Label: Super-Invisible Records
• Catalog: SIR-2022
• Released: April 1, 2004
• Format: CD

Tracks

1. 高すぎて泣く (Taka sugite naku) - 18:47
2. Love Theme from Dr Zhivago - 2:56
3. 先史時代の愛のバラード (Senshijidaino ai no Ballad) - 4:12
4. Le Jeune Bob Dylan rêve du coffre de Dali - 3:00
5. How Do You Spell That? - 3:28
6. Washing Machine and Wishing Machine - 5:02
7. (Untitled) - 6:14
8. Burt Bacharach Medley - 4:33
9. I Bought a New Guitar - 2:22
10. Several Species of Small Slimy Amphibians Gathered Together in a Hole and Grooving with Roger Waters - 4:47

Credits

Mist of Flying Elbow

• Himiko Nakazaki — Vocals, flute, shakuhachi, keyboards, programming
• Leonard “Lefty” Lumumba — Guitar, balalaika, percussion, electronics
• Teppo Leppäluoto — Bass, didjeridoo, prepared guitar

Guest musicians

• Liesl Graupel — Drums (tracks 2, 5, 8, 9)
• Ma Yilin — Erhu, percussion
• Simone Al-Qazr — Drums, percussion (tracks 3, 4, 6), unintentional beatboxing (track 7)

Notes

Recorded at Razor Thin Margin Studios by Luther Fries. Mixed by Mist of Flying Elbow with Luther Fries. All tracks by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Leppäluoto except 2 (Maurice Jarre), 6 (Nakazaki / Ma), 7 (Leppäluoto), 10 (Nakazaki).

• Label: Super-Invisible Records
• Catalog: SIR-3922
• Released: April 1, 2007
• Format: CD

Tracks

1. Reverse Psychology Backfires - 2:58
2. 未解決のラジカルのマーチ (Mi kaiketsu no rajikaru no māchi) - 4:01
3. Δεν μπορώ να τραγουδήσω στα ελληνικά! - 3:39
4. Sepulchre My Ass - 3:12
5. Meme Meme - 4:45
6. Someday My Prince Will Come - 2:47
7. Trapped in a Basement with Nothing to Eat but Cockroaches - 3:13
8. Dressing Naked Eyes - 2:28
9. 马的二胡 (Mǎ de èrhú) - 1:15
10. Enthauptung from Pierrot Lunaire - 3:21
11. The Circles We Run In - 3:44
12. 17h 45m 40.0409s, −29° 00' 28.118" (J2000) - 4:05
13. Lefty’s Right-Handed Blues - 1:29
14. Song Never Written - 2:38
15. Shit in a Wasteland - 4:19
16. (Untitled) - 0:47
17. 姉の娘と3種類の色の猫 (Ane no musume to 3 shurui no iro no neko) - 3:51

Credits

Mist of Flying Elbow

• Himiko Nakazaki — Kalimba, vocals, ney flute, keyboards, field recordings
• Leonard “Lefty” Lumumba — Piano, folding chairs, kalimba, oud, electronics
• Teppo Leppäluoto — Bass, vocals (spoken), silverware
• Zhenya Korashenko — Synthesizers, marimba, backing vocals

Guest musicians

• Ma Yilin — Violin, erhu, field recordings, vocals (spoken)
• Joe Foster — Trumpet
• Lunette McDonald — Tenor sax
• Sydney Rothburn — Trombone
• Cynthia Kloepper — Tuba
• Cole Johnson — Bari sax

Notes

Recorded at Razor Thin Margin Studios by Luther Fries and Himiko Nakazaki. Mixed by Mist of Flying Elbow. All tracks by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Leppäluoto except 1 (Nakazaki / Korashenko), 6 (Morey / Churchill), 9 (Ma), 10 (Schoenberg), 13 (Korashenko), 16 (Kloepper).

• Label: Super-Invisible Records
• Catalog: SIR-2091
• Released: April 1, 2008
• Format: 2CD

Tracks

1. Mist of Flying Elbow (Demo) - 2:12
2. Ten Minutes from the Galactic Core (Demo) - 4:19
3. 一卵性双生児人魚 (Ichiranseisōseiji ningyo) (Live in Studio) - 6:02
4. Пост-апокалиптический добрый самаритянин (Demo) - 3:50
5. Send in the Clowns (Live) - 2:02
6. You Think of a Name (Live in Studio) - 4:22
7. Ghlüshknerzh (Demo) - 3:10
8. I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General (Live) - 2:49
9. dpkg -l | grep wav (Live) - 9:41
10. Where Is Gandalf When You Need Him? (Live) - 2:44
11. Untitled Guzheng Improvisation (Live) - 1:48
12. All the Young Dudes (Live) - 2:04
13. Studio Banter - 1:33
14. Avant-Garder Than Thou (Live) - 1:18
15. There’s a Riot Goin’ On (Live) - 4:18
16. Credited to Lennon/McCartney (Demo) - 2:28
17. Nobody Remembers If This Ever Had a Title (Demo) - 4:31
18. Drum Solo (Live) - 3:33
19. あなたが私たちを好きなら、私たちはあなたを憎む (Anata ga watashitachi o sukinara, watashitachi wa anata o nikumu) (Live) - 8:39
20. Himiko’s New Pedal (Demo) - 2:46
21. Nirvana for Mice (Live) - 4:53
22. 女は恋に生きてゆく (On'na wa koi ni ikite yuku) (Live) - 2:59
23. The Internationale (Live) - 4:00
24. Complexity Is the Simplest Thing (Live) - 12:27
25. That Was Epic! (Live) - 1:28

Credits

Mist of Flying Elbow

• Himiko Nakazaki — Kalimba, vocals, ney flute, taishogoto
• Leonard “Lefty” Lumumba — Sitar, cajon, harmonium, prepared acoustic guitar, electronics
• Teppo Leppäluoto — Didgeridoo, keyboards, baritone guitar
• Ni85(c) — Vocals, broken guitar

Guest musicians

• Ma Yilin — Violin, erhu, guzheng, electronics, vacuum cleaner, field recordings
• Luigi Pellegrini — Percussion, bass
• Doğan Çetin — Kudüm, dumbek
• Stephen "Grumpy" Carlisle — Short wave radio, prepared banjo
• Winston Churchill — Voice
• Satan Himself — Electric guitar
• Unidentified studio intern — Feedback, power outage
• Children of Grade 3, Trudeau Grammar School, Coquitlam, British Columbia

Notes

Recorded in various locations between 1996 and 2005. Most details lost in the mists of time, or to protect the innocent. Mixing and mastering (and occasional reconstructive repair) by Luther Fries. All tracks by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Leppäluoto except 5 (Sondheim), 8 (Gilbert / Sullivan), 12 (Bowie), 15 (Stewart), 21 (Frith), 22 (Ishizaka), 23 (de Geyter / Pottier)

• Label: Super-Invisible Records
• Catalog: SIR-4420
• Released: April 1, 2018
• Format: CD, digital download

Tracks

1. Hoshi no Amagumo (Future So Dark) - 3:21
2. Bumpy Road of Revelation - 2:03
3. Nocturne for Hidden Mountain - 0:56
4. The Emoji That Became a God - 14:38
5. Schnell schnell die Möwe drehen - 5:15
6. Long Distance Runaround - 3:29
7. Kenbikyō no uta (Little Flowers in Mud) - 21:10
8. Slipt - 2:27

Credits

Mist of Flying Elbow

• Himiko Nakazaki — Kalimba, vocals, ney flute, taishogoto
• Leonard “Lefty” Lumumba — Sitar, cajon, harmonium, electronics
• Teppo Leppäluoto — Didjeridoo, Mellotron, poodle, baritone guitar
• Zhenya Korashenko — Synthesizers, marimba, backing vocals
• Phillippe Molineaux-Ghoshal — Drums, harpsichord, bagpipes, spoken word
• Ma Yilin — Violin, erhu, field recordings, wandisha, modular synthesizer

Guest musicians

• Angelique Molineaux — Backing vocals, rhythm programming (track 4), hurdy-gurdy (track 6)
• Danny Little — Trombone
• Jun Kawasaki — Feedback and noise (track 6)
• Curly — Meowing and purring (track 3)
• Luigi Pellegrini — Finger cymbals, literary references, prepared upright bass
• Swami Ramananda — Chanting, floral arrangements, banjo

Notes

Recorded between June 2009 and November 2017 at various locations around the world. All music composed by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Leppäluoto except 6 by Jon Anderson, 4 by Nakazaki / Lumumba / Ma, and 3 by Charles Ives (adapted by Korashenko). Recorded, engineered, mixed, and produced by Mist of Flying Elbow. Cover art by Yi Meiyou.