Switchblade (album)
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Switchblade is a 1994 album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Schaft
Schaft
Schaft is a Japanese musical side project whose main members are Fujii Maki of Soft Ballet and Hisashi Imai of Buck-Tick. Schaft can be thought of as being a supergroup in that Maki and Imai form the core of the group and a rotating roster of collaborators, who are well-known within their genres,...

. A promotional video for the song Arbor Vitate was filmed, and was later re-used by PIG for their version of the song.

Track listing

  1. "Olive" – 5:04
  2. "The Hero Inside" – 4:01
  3. "Thirsty Fly" – 6:27
  4. "SKF10047" – 7:35
  5. "Nothing" – 5:11
  6. "Slice" – 7:50
  7. "Broken English" – 6:33
  8. "Merry Christmas on Mars" – 6:32
  9. "Information" – 4:24
  10. "Visual Cortex" – 8:03
  11. "Fetid Air" – 6:04
  12. "Arbor Vitate" – 4:59
  13. "Cold Light" – 5:15

Personnel

  • Hisashi Imai
    Hisashi Imai
    is a Japanese musician and songwriter. He is known as lead guitarist of the rock band Buck-Tick since 1983. He has also performed in musical side-projects such as Schaft , Schwein , and more recently Lucy .- History :...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    s, noise
    Noise
    In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...

    s, vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     (2)
  • Maki Fujii – electronic devices
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , computer programming
    Computer programming
    Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...

    , acoustic piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , noises
  • Raymond Watts – computer programming, guitars, noises, vocals (2–3, 5–6, 11–13)
  • Susanne Bramson – vocals (10)
  • Julianne Regan
    Julianne Regan
    Julianne Regan is an English singer, song writer, guitarist, bass guitarist and keyboard player. She is best known for being the lead singer of the band, All About Eve.- Early life :...

     – vocals (7)
  • Jonny Stephens – vocals (9)
  • Lynne Hobday – spoken word
    Spoken word
    Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....

     (1)
  • Steve White – guitars (5)
  • CraY (The Mad Capsule Market's) – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

     (12)
  • Morota Koh (Doom) – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (9)
  • Keith LeBlanc
    Keith Leblanc
    Keith Leblanc is an American drummer and record producer, and is a member of the bands Little Axe and Tackhead.His record, "No Sell Out", was the first sample based record. His career started out on Sugar Hill Records recording with rap pioneers, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Melle...

     – drums (3, 11)
  • Motokatsu (The Mad Capsule Market's) – drums (12)
  • Seiichi Teratani – drums (2)
  • DJ Peah – scratching
    Scratching
    Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while optionally manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer. While scratching is most commonly associated with hip hop music, since the late 1980s, it has been used...

     (9)
  • Michiru Oshima – orchestral arrangement
    Arrangement
    The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

     (7)
  • Kazutoshi Yokoyama – manipulation assisting (2, 6, 8)
  • Coil
    Coil (band)
    Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

    , Danny Hyde
    Danny Hyde
    Danny Hyde is an experimental musician and renowned remix artist. Hyde has contributed to production and mixing on many Coil albums, including Horse Rotorvator, Love's Secret Domain, The Remote Viewer, Black Antlers, and The New Backwards. Hyde has also worked with Psychic TV and Pop Will Eat Itself...

     - mixing (1, 10)

Trivia

  • The song "Broken English" on this album is a cover of a song originally by Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....

    , and is the music accompanying the original version of the first trailer of Hellsing (OVA) as shown at Anime Expo 2005. The song was later used in the series proper as an insert song for episode 5.
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