The Shamanic Principles

Composed By, Performer, Conductor, Recorded By, Artwork, Other [Scores] – Teiji Ito
Design – Heung-Heung Chin
Executive-Producer [Associate] – Kazunori Sugiyama
Flute – Unknown Flutist
Liner Notes – Cherel Ito, Teiji Ito
Mastered By – Scott Hull
Other [Materials Made Available By] – Guy Klucevsek
Producer – John Zorn
Voice, Frame Drum, Conch [Conch Shell], Clarinet, Percussion – Teiji Ito (tracks: 2 to 5)
Voice, Narrator [Narration], Percussion – Diane (tracks: 2 to 5)
Axis Mundi recorded at The Chapel, Center Stage, Baltimore, 1982. Quetzalcoatl recorded in rehearsal c.1980.
Tracks 2 to 5 feature an unknown flautist, possibly Dan Erkkila, and two unknown percussionists, possibly Genji Ito and Yukio Tsuji, who play water drum, gamelan, frame drum, various hand drums, finger cymbals, bass drum, shakers, triangle, gongs, berimbau, xylophone, log drum, woodblocks, steel drum, drum set, sleight bells, bells, thumb piano, glockenspiel, and miscellaneous percussion.
All materials are used by permission from the Ito Estate.
These recordings were made available for release through the kind cooperation of the Teiji Ito Collection of Noncommercial Recordings, c.1952-1982 at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound/The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Teiji Ito Estate. Axis Mundi was first released by Steve Peters on ¿What Next? in 1996.
Special thanks to Guy Klucevsek, Steve Peters, Sara Velez, Tom Christie and of course Tavia Ito.