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'Yunnan Colorfree' is a solo album by Yoshimi P-We (Boredoms/OOIOO/Free Kitten) 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, a remote area in southern Chinanear Tibet, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. The album contains guest vocals by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth as well as a cover of the Sonic Youth track "Death Valley '69"

The album was released as Japanese-only exclusive, packaged in deluxe 2-disc gatefold digipak. The first disc is a CD containing the soundtrack. The second disc is a DVD containing the entire 42 minute film.

Track listing



CD

# "Open Our Lotus"  (1:43)

# "Iiie"  (2:15)

# "Myaoo"  (2:43)

# "Taiii"  (1:43)

# "Grounding Session I"  (1:49)

# "Grounding Session II"  (0:30)

# "Honey"  (0:32)

# "Ararah"  (8:34)

# "Endless"  (3:13)

# "Sunny"  (1:56)

# "Chuwow"  (1:17)

# "Mochiii"  (2:40)

# "Tori no Jidai"  (9:53)

# "Death Valley 69 (Saicobaba Version)"  (5:16)

# "Gyariii"  (0:23)

DVD



# "Opening"

# "I People"

# "Myao People"

# "Tai People"

# "Hani People"

# "R People"

# "Yao People"

# "Sani People"

# "Chuwan People"

# "Moci People"

Personnel



Music by Yoshimi P-We

* Yoshimi P-We 

** 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  vocal (5-7, 14), electric guitar (5-7), guitar (5-7)

* Sen10  talking tom (5-7)

* Shoji  underground recording (5-7), bowl (8), keyboard (8, 13), field recording (8, 13), pin (15)

* Uta  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 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 womanin the markets, looking at food, in the fields and just standing around in total elegance, in the most colorful clothing imaginablewith no-narration or overt linear intention.

* Filmed by Kim Sung-yoon

* Edited by Kumiko Kamanaka

* Sound produced by Yoshimio

References



Category:Documentary film soundtracks

Category:2007 soundtrack albums

Category:2007 films

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