Downtown Music Gallery carries most of the CDs listed below.

If they are out of stock, please contact me.

 

NEW!

 

Bayt (Disc Callithump CPCD-002)

The second CD of Green Zone

Kato Hideki: electric bass, analog synth, violin, viola & water

Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar

Uemura Masahiro: drums

recorded live in Japan and remixed at Shadow World by Kato Hideki

produced by Kato Hideki & Noda Shigenori

 

 

Drunken Forest (Tzadik 7264)

The third CD of Death Ambient

Kato Hideki: acoustic & electric bass, analog synth, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin,ukulele, lapsteel guitar, water & ice

Ikue Mori: laptop computer

Fred Frith: electric guitar

recorded at Shadow World by Kato Hideki and at Guerrilla Recording by Myles Boisen 2004-2006

produced & mixed by Kato Hideki

 

 

Synaesthesia (Tzadik 7226)

The second CD of Death Ambient

Kato Hideki: electric & acoustic bass

Ikue Mori: drum machines

Fred Frith: guitar

recorded at BC Studio by Martin Bisi in 1999

 

 

 

Death Ambient (Tzadik 7207)

The debut CD of Death Ambient

Kato Hideki: electric & acoustic bass

Ikue Mori: drum machines

Fred Frith: guitar

recorded at Greenpoint Studio by Robert Musso in 1995

 

Green Zone (doubtmusic dmf-106)

The trio with seminal members of Ground Zero

Kato Hideki: bass, violin (track11)

Otomo Yoshihide:guitar

Uemura Masahiro:drums

recorded live in Tokyo by James Fei in 2004

mixed by Kato Hideki

 

 

Sieves (Improvised Music from Japan IMJ-522)

Electro-Acoustic Duo with James Fei

Kato Hideki: electric bass and bass synthesizer

James Fei: oscillators, filters, spring reverb, contact mike, and miscellaneous electronics

recorded by Kato Hideki & James Fei in 2003

 

 

Turbulent Zone (Music for Expanded Ears)

Solo Electric Bass CD, using Prime Number tuning

Kato Hideki electric bass

recorded by Kato Hideki in 1998

 

 

Hope & Despair (Extreme XCD-036)

An acoustic CD with musicians in NYC and in Japan

Kato Hideki: acoustic bass & acoustic guitar

John Zorn: piano

Zeena Parkins: harp

Dougie Bowne: drums

Michiaki Tanaka: percussion

Gen Ogimi: percussion

Kono Masahiko: trombone

 

 

Karada wa Oto o Dasu Mono /Bass Army (Trigram)

Dual Bass trio with the original Ruins bassist & Ground Zero drummer

Kato Hideki: electric bass

Kimoto Kazuyoshi: electric bass

Uemura Masahiro: drums