''Refusal Fossil'' is the sixth album by

Ruins Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberate ...

, released in 1997 through

Skin Graft Records Skin Graft Records (officially capitalized SKiN GRAFT Records) is an independent record label specializing in no wave and noise rock, originally based in Chicago, Illinois. The label is largely responsible for spawning "now wave" genre, an upda ...

. In 2007, Skin Graft released a special edition with five extra tracks, easily identified by a different text font for the band name and title.

Track listing

Tracks 13–17 were added for the 2007 special edition release.
Tracks 1–16 were recorded in Koenji and

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, 1995–1997.
Tracks 17–26 were recorded live at Showboat, Tokyo on February 7, 1997.

Personnel

;Ruins *Hisashi Sasaki – vocals, bass guitar *

Tatsuya Yoshida (born 9 January 1961 in Kitakami, Iwate) is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios ...

– vocals, drums *Ryuichi Masuda – bass guitar (tracks 8, 10, 11) *Naruyoshi Kikuchi -

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(tracks 17–21) *Emi Eleonola - vocals (track 22) *

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- guitar (track 23) *Kenichi Oguchi – keyboards (track 24) ;Production and additional personnel *

– production *Jim O'Rourke –

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References

External links

* 1997 albums Ruins (Japanese band) albums Skin Graft Records albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub