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Where I Was The Day The Second World War Ended
by Ayuo　（日本語は英語の下期にあります。）

Ayuo: Bouzouki, Vocals
David Lord: Keyboards, Percussion
Yoko Ueno: Vocals, Accordion

Recorded and Mixed by David Lord at Crescent Studios (Terra Incognita) in December, 1999.
Previously unreleased track.

Kurt Vonnegut was the first author I started to read when I in middle school. His views about society influenced me enormously. He was German-American and grew up in Indiana in the US, a state that had many immigrants from Germany. They spoke German until World War One put an end to it. He became a soldier in World War Two, and fought against fascism, Nazism, and the military dictatorships of the Axis powers. He was captured by the Nazis and was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of a slaughterhouse. His fictional book, "Slaughterhouse-Five" is based on his war experiences.

The two songs on this mini-album are also based on what Vonnegut saw immediately after the war, when he was released from the prisoner of war camp.

Toward the end of World War II, in southeastern Germany, several American soldiers who had been prisoners of war in the German army were taken from the bombed and burned city of Dresden to a place near the Czech border and left alone.
It was a state of chaos, with no government in control. This is what he saw.

Dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Axis aggression of Nazi Germany, Italian Fascism and the Japanese imperial military in World War 2.
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第二次世界大戦の終わった日、僕はここにいた

カート・ヴォネガットは、私が中学生のときに初めて読み始めた作家です。彼の社会に対する考え方は、私に多大な影響を与えました。彼はドイツ系アメリカ人で、ドイツからの移民が多いアメリカのインディアナ州で育ちました。第一次世界大戦が終わるまで、彼らはドイツ語を話していました。彼は第二次世界大戦で兵士となり、ファシズム、ナチズム、枢軸国の軍事独裁政権と戦いました。ナチスの捕虜となり、ドレスデンに抑留され、連合軍の爆撃を屠殺場の肉ロッカーで生き延びる。彼の戦争体験をもとにした小説「スローターハウス-ファイブ」がある。

このミニ・アルバムに収録されている2曲は、終戦直後、刑務所から出所したヴォネガットが見たものが元になっている。

第二次世界大戦の終わり頃、場所はドイツ南東部、ドイツ軍の捕虜となっていた数人のアメリカ軍の兵士達は爆撃により燃やされた都市ドレスデンからチェコとの国境の近くまであるかされ、ほっぽらかされた。
そこはどこの政府も支配していないカオスの状態になっていた。これは彼が見たもの。

第2次世界大戦におけるナチス・ドイツ、ファシスト・イタリー、日本帝国軍による枢軸国の侵略の犠牲者の記憶のために捧げられる。

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Lyrics included in the booklet in both English and Japanese.
歌詞はブックレットに英語と日本語で入っています。

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from The Day The Second World War Ended​第​二​次​世​界​大​戦​の​終​わ​っ​た​日​、​僕​は​こ​こ​に​い​た, released June 8, 2023
Ayuo: Bouzouki, Vocals
David Lord: Keyboards, Percussion
Yoko Ueno: Vocals, Accordion

Recorded and Mixed by David Lord at Crescent Studios (Terra Incognita) in December, 1999.
Previously unreleased track.

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Ayuo Tokyo, Japan

Ayuo Takahashi (born October 19, 1960) in Tokyo, Japan and raised in New York City) is a Japanese-American composer, poet, lyricist, singer and performer of guitar and bouzouki, From 1984 he has released over a dozen solo albums, collaborating with Peter Hammill, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Danny Thompson, Maddy Prior, Takehisa Kosugi, Carlos Alomar, John Zorn, Clive Deamer, Kazue Sawai and many others. ... more

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