Kakashi

Shimizu plays vocals, saxophone, clarinet, flute, trumpet, piano, percussion, charango, electronics and tapes, joined by Hideo Yamaki on drums and percussion, Morio Watanabe on bass, engawa and balafon, Takayuki Hijikata on guitar, Masanori Sasaji on marimba and Junichi Kanezaki on trumpet. Seigen Ono engineered, Greg Calbi mastered, and Shimizu painted the cover. Palto Flats's founder Jacob Gorchov says Shimizu told him it was recorded in the same studio Ryuichi Sakamoto used for B-2 Unit in 1982, with the two sessions using the room on alternating days.

Resident Advisor (Beaty DNA, 2017) called it in a class of its own; Record Collector gave four stars and wrote that Semi Tori No Hi sounds like nothing else before or since; Spectrum Culture judged it not quite as strong as Utakata no Hibi. The first release outside Japan was by Palto Flats with WRWTFWW, announced for November 24, 2017 by Resident Advisor, remastered with new liner notes by Patrice Bollon.