Domo Arigato v2.0 Sketch For Summer Sketch For Dawn Party Never Known Mercy Theme Pauline A Little Mercy Jacqueline Mercy Dance A Silence The Room E.E. Conduct Tomorrow The Beggar For Belgian Friends The Missing Boy Self Portrait Dedications For Japan Love Fading For Noriko
Factory Benelux presents an expanded vinyl edition of Domo Arigato, the acclaimed live album by Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column, recorded in Tokyo in April 1985.
Some copies including sticker stating "double vinyl edition v2.0 mix + bonus 7" + digital copy".
Domo Arigato followed on the heels of ambitious ‘modern classical’ album Without Mercy a year earlier, and saw composer/guitarist Vini Reilly and percussionist Bruce Mitchell augmented by John Metcalfe on viola and Tim Kellet on trumpet. Their show-cum-recital at the Kan’i Hoken Hall on 25 April was recorded digitally and filmed on two 35mm cameras. ‘Mixing down was fun,’ recalled Durutti manager/mentor Anthony H. Wilson. ‘We were on a flight out next morning so Nippon Columbia hired a mobile studio recording truck and we mixed from midnight to 6 a.m.’
In fact the group always considered this rather hurried mix imperfect, and therefore for this expanded 2017 reissue Factory Benelux have returned to the original soundboard tapes and remastered the performance, in the process restoring the original running order.
The deluxe gatefold package also includes a bonus 7” single, ささげもの = Dedications For Japan, originally released in a limited edition in 1984. This features two studio tracks, Love Fading and For Noriko, and reproduces the original picture sleeve.
Catalogue number "7 FBN 52" appears on the 7" sleeve and labels
credits
Design [Original design scheme] – - 8vo Drums, Percussion, Xylophone, Drum Machine [Oberheim DMX] – - Bruce Mitchell Lacquer Cut By – - ST (15) Photography By [Still Photographs (England)] – - Kevin Cummins Photography By [Still Photographs (Japan)] – - Anthony H. Wilson , - Yoshimasa Hatano Recorded By – - G.Y.N.E. Mobile Recording Songwriter [Songs written by], Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer [Yamaha DX7] – - Vini Reilly Trumpet – - Tim Kellett Viola – - John Metcalfe
companies
Phonographic Copyright Factory Benelux Copyright Factory Benelux Published By Imagem Music Pressed By Optimal Media GmbH BH72422Pressed By Optimal Media GmbH BH72432Mastered At Optimal Media GmbH Lacquer Cut at Optimal Media GmbH Recorded At Kani Hoken Hall Licensed From The Durutti Column