Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Naoki Kita
Kyoko Kuroda

A Heart Drawn up into the Sky

(Airplane Label, APX1004) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Spring (2:26)
  2. Kishin (3:46)
  3. Una Santateresa Negra (6:11)
  4. Moon River (4:07)
  5. Women's Dance (6:49)
  6. Muddy River (6:44)
  7. A Full Moon--Small Sky--A Heart Drawn up into the Sky (5:24)
  8. Hometown (5:52)
  9. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (2:48)

Composed by Naoki Kita (1, 3, 6, "A Heart Drawn up into the Sky" on 7, 8), Kyoko Kuroda (2), Henry Mancini (4), Milcho Leviev (5), Nagayo Motoori ("A Full Moon" on 7), Toru Takemitsu ("A Small Sky" on 7), and Michel Legrand (9)

Naoki Kita: violin
Kyoko Kuroda: piano, accordion

Recorded by Fumio Nii at Himawari-no-Sato Hall, March 2008
Mixed and mastered by Fumio Nii
Produced by Shinichiro Tokunaga
Design by yamasin(g)
Photos by Kohei Kawaguchi and Masatoshi Kita

Released in November 2008