''Big When Far, Small When Close'' is the third studio album by Japanese band

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, released on the PARANOIZ label in Japan (PAR-50024), and by KIKI Poo Records in the US (KPCD-001). The line-up consisted of Chihiro, Kirilo and Fuzuki, and the album was produced by

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. Several of the tracks are sung a capella apart from the odd chime, triangle or hand clap. Exceptions are ''Zozoi'' with its tribal-esque drumming, ''Dandera Korabatten'' with some repeated background instrumentation, and ''Alabama Song'' with a carnival-esque brass and clarinet arrangement.

Track listing

# "Neanderthal & Cro-Magnon" (Lyrics: Kirilo,

/ Music: Kamiyama) – 0:50 # "Souvlaki" (Lyrics: eX-Girl, Kamiyama / Music: eX-Girl, Kamiyama) – 4:26 # "Zozoi" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: eX-Girl) – 4:28 # "Jet Mogura" (Lyrics: Kirilo / Music: eX-Girl, Kamiyama) – 3:20 # "Dandera Korabatten" (Lyrics: Chihiro / Music: eX-Girl, Kamiyama) – 3:51 # "Disco 3000" (Lyrics: Chihiro / Music: eX-Girl, Kamiyama) – 3:19 # "Alabama Song" (Lyrics:

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/ Music:

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) – 3:52 # "Big When Far, Small When Close" (Lyrics: Kamiyama / Music: eX-Girl) – 1:12

Personnel

* Chihiro –

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

, hand claps, stepping. * Kirilo – vocals, hand claps, stepping. * Fuzuki – vocals, hand claps, stepping,

bell A bell /ˈbɛl/ () is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be m ...

. * Hoppy Kamiyama –

floor tom A floor tom or low tom is a double-headed tom-tom drum which usually stands on the floor on three legs. However, they can also be attached to a cymbal stand with a drum clamp, or supported by a rim mount. It is a cylindrical drum without snare ...

cymbal A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sou ...

, sample, gram pot. * Masafumi Minato – floor tom,

tom-tom A tom drum (also known as a tom-tom) is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language. It was added to the drum kit in the early part of the 20th century. Most toms range in size between in diameter, thoug ...

, cymbal. * Takerô Sekijima –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

. * Kanji Nakao –

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

, trombone, wood block.

Production

–

record producer A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensu ...

. * Takerô Sekijima –

brass Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve different colours and mechanical, electrical, acoustic and chemical properties, but copper typically has the larger proportion, generally copper and zinc. I ...

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestr ...

. * Jin Terada –

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, re ...

and mixing November 8–11, 13, 14 1999 at MIT studio, Sound Atelier. * Yoshiaki Kondo – mastering at Kojima Recordings. * Kazvnori Akita –

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art that involves creating visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdisciplinary branch of ...

. * Jimmy Henda –

photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

. * Yukari Terakura –

costumes Costume is the distinctive style of clothing, dress and/or cosmetics, makeup of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, occupation, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch—in short, culture. The term also was traditionally used ...

. * eX-Girl –

illustrations An illustration is a decoration, interpretation, or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process, designed for integration in print and digitally published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vi ...

. * Ray - illustration (Frog Prince). {{Authority control EX-Girl albums 2000 albums