Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Shun Sakai

Beyond Time

(Chitei Records, B15F) (Japan) (CD)


  1. My Coloring Book (5:50)
  2. It's a Most Unusual Day (3:17)
  3. Something Cool (5:06)
  4. Martha (5:29)
  5. Kakurenbo no Sora -El Dercho de Vivir en Paz- (6:57)
  6. A Sleepin' Bee (5:59)
  7. Kaze no Sasoi no Mamani -Smile- (3:30)
  8. Lullabye -Good Night, My Angel- (3:48)
  9. For All We Know (6:33)

  1. Words by Fred Eeb and music by John Kander
  2. Words by Harold Adamson and music by Jimmy McHugh
  3. Words and music by Bill Barnes
  4. Words and music by Tom Waits
  5. Words by Shun Sakai and music by Victor Jara
  6. Words by Truman Capote and Harold Alen and music by Harold Alen
  7. Words by Shun Sakai and music by Charles Chaplin
  8. Words and music by Billy Joel
  9. Words by Sam M. Lewis and music by J. Fred Coots

Shun Sakai: vocal
Takeshi Shibuya: piano
Tamio Kawabata: bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion

Produced by Shun Sakai
Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo and Takao Akimoto at GOK Sound, Tokyo, November-December 1998
Mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo
Mastered by Yoshio Kobayashi at Hi Brite
Photography by So Kuramochi and Erica Tanabe
Design by Erica Tanabe

Released in 1999