Yunnan Colorfree is a solo album by Yoshimi P-We

Yoshimi P-We

Yoshimi P-We, is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.Yoshimi also plays trumpet, guitar, and keyboard, and sings....

 (Boredoms/OOIOO

OOIOO

OOIOO are an all-female group founded by Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We.According to allmusic's Kieran McCarthy "It's next to impossible to describe their sound, because — by design — it rarely follows consistent patterns"...

/Free Kitten

Free Kitten

Free Kitten is a musical collaboration between Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Pussy Galore's Julie Cafritz. Originally performing under the name Kitten, they changed their name, after receiving threats of legal action by a heavy metal singer performing under that name...

) under the name Yoshimio. The music is a soundtrack to a documentary movie of the same name; the movie focuses on the women of Yunnan

Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country spanning approximately and with a population of 45.7 million . The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders Burma, Laos, and Vietnam.Yunnan is situated in a mountainous area, with...

, a remote area in southern China -- near Tibet, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The album contains guest vocals by Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon

Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...

 of Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

 as well as a cover of the Sonic Youth track "Death Valley '69

Death Valley '69

"Death Valley '69" is a song by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth and is the eighth and final track on their 1985 album Bad Moon Rising. The song was written and sung by Thurston Moore and fellow New York musician Lydia Lunch, and recorded and produced by Wharton Tiers in July 1984...

"

The album was released as Japanese-only exclusive, packaged in deluxe 2-disc gatefold digipak. The first disc is a CD

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 containing the soundtrack. The second disc is a DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 containing the entire 42 minute film.

CD

1. Open Our Lotus – (1:43)
2. Iiie – (2:15)
3. Myaoo – (2:43)
4. Taiii – (1:43)
5. Grounding Session I – (1:49)
6. Grounding Session II – (0:30)
7. Honey – (0:32)
8. Ararah – (8:34)
9. Endless – (3:13)
10. Sunny – (1:56)
11. Chuwow – (1:17)
12. Mochiii – (2:40)
13. Tori no Jidai – (9:53)
14. Death Valley 69 (Saicobaba Version) – (5:16)
15. Gyariii – (0:23)

DVD

1. Opening
2. I People
3. Myao People
4. Tai People
5. Hani People
6. R People
7. Yao People
8. Sani People
9. Chuwan People
10. Moci People

Personnel

Music by Yoshimi P-We

• Yoshimi P-We
  Yoshimi P-We
  Yoshimi P-We, is a Japanese musician best known for her role as the longest consistent drummer in the Japanese rock band Boredoms.Yoshimi also plays trumpet, guitar, and keyboard, and sings....
  
   –
  • steel guitar (1, 4)
  • vocal (2, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14)
  • shell (2)
  • synthesizer (2, 9)
  • keyboard (2, 3, 8-10, 12-14)
  • drum machine (3, 4)
  • cowbell (3)
  • shaker (3, 4, 13)
  • electric guitar (4)
  • triangle (4)
  • taiko (5-7)
  • boo (5-7)
  • wood block (5-7, 13)
  • Glockenspiel (5-7, 13)
  • drums (8, 13)
  • bell (8)
  • whistle (8)
  • duff (8)
  • gamelan (11)
  • electric bass guitar (11)
  • vibratone (11)
  • handclap (11)
  • frog drum (11)
  • trumpet (13)
  • tambourine (13)
  • foot bass (14)
  • bass drum (14)

Guest Performers

• Yo2ro Takekawa – duff (2, 9), manjira (5-7), kanjira (5-7), tambourine (5-7, 11), drums (9-12, 14), cowbell (10)
• Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
   – vocal (5-7, 14), electric guitar (5-7), guitar (5-7)
• Sen10 – talking tom (5-7)
• Shoji
  Shoji
  In traditional Japanese architecture, a shōji is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a lattice of wood or bamboo...
  
   – underground recording (5-7), bowl (8), keyboard (8, 13), field recording (8, 13), pin (15)
• Uta
  UTA
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   – vocal (8, 13, 15), bowl (8)
• Yoshidadaikiti – sitar (14)

Production

Produced and mixed by Yoshimio

Engineered by Koichi Hara at Redragonfly Studio

Mastered by Isao Kikuchi

Isao Kikuchi

Isao Kikuchi is a graphic designer, painter, carver, illustrator.Born in Los Angeles to Yoriyuki Kikuchi – one of the first Asian Americans to graduate from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry - and Miya Sonomiya Kikuchi. Isao was an aimless 19 year old at the onset of World...

 at Warner Music Mastering


Artwork by Shoji Goto

Photograph by Miwaco

Documentary Film

The soundtrack is accompanied by DVD containing the documentary film. The film consists of various street shots of these Yunnan woman -- in the markets, looking at food, in the fields and just standing around in total elegance, in the most colorful clothing imaginable -- with no-narration or overt linear intention.

Personnel

• Filmed by Kim Sung-yoon
• Edited by Kumiko Kamanaka
• Sound produced by Yoshimio