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Hikasu

Kawatteru: Changing like Myxomycetes

(Toshiba-EMI, TOCT09775) (CD)

  1. All the End of the 20th Century (words: Makigami / music: Makigami) (4:36)
  2. Faces of Humankind (Makigami / Masamichi Mitama) (3:46)
  3. Unsingable Song (Makigami / Sakaide) (3:26)
  4. Peek into Heaven (Makigami / Nomoto) (4:06)
  5. Courteous Hospitality (Makigami / Mita) (4:43)
  6. Pike (Makigami / Yasushi Yamashita) (5:23)
  7. A Waste of Inspiration (Makigami / Sakaide) (2:59)
  8. Biro-biro (Makigami / Makigami) (4:17)
  9. Chimaera (Makigami / Sakaide) (4:58)
  10. Smile of Japan Thema and 14 Variations (Makigami / Makoto Inoue, Rasch) (10:23)

Arranged by Hikasu, except track 1 by Mita and Niida, tracks 2 and 8 by Makigami, tracks 3 and 9 by Sakaide, and track 4 by Nomoto
Orchestral arrangement by Rasch (10)

Hikasu:
Koichi Makigami: vocal (1-10), sampler (1), girigiripee (1), slidewhistle (4), cornet (5), throat singing (6), Jew's harp (8), programming (8)
Freeman Mita: electric guitar (1-7, 9), chin (1), acoustic guitar (4, 9), voice (5), chorus (8)
Kazuhiro Nomoto: baritone sax (1, 4-6), alto sax (1, 2, 4-6), tenor sax (3, 5, 7), soprano sax (7), clarinet (5, 9), bass clarinet (7, 9), flute (7), oboe (9), voice (5), chorus (8)
Torsten Rasch: sampler (1, 3-9), piano (4-7), Fender Rhodes piano (9)
Makoto Yoshimori: synthesizer (1, 2, 5-7, 9), Hammond organ (3, 6), piano (3), accordion (4), chorus (8)
Masami Sakaide: bass (1-7, 9), bass drum (1), sampler (1), chorus (8), additional programming (8)
Kozo Niida: drums (1-7, 9), oil drum (1), 28-inch bass drum (1), conga (3, 5, 7)

Guests:
Shonosuke Okura: otsuzumi (2)
Yukihiro Isso: nokan (2), dengaku-bue (1)
Michie Yagi: koto (2)
Tetsuya Kajiwara: drums (1)
Masayuki Kobayashi: drums (1), oil drum (1), Chinese cymbals (1)
Toshiyuki Suzuki: drums (1)
Kyoko Tomita: drums (1), oil drum (1)
Sachiko Nagata: marimba (4), percussion (4)
Novko Hasebe: chorus (4)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava (10)
Robert Stankowsky: conductor (10)

Recorded by Seiji Okumura and Masataka Saito, and mixed by Seiji Okumura at Toshiba-EMI Studio and Studio Terra in September 14-November 22, 1996, except track 10 recorded at Slovak Radio Management for Orchestra and Recording Studio
Mastered by Mitsuharu Harada at Disc Lab
Art directer: Koichi Makigami
Design: Toako Sawada
Photography: Junsuke Takimoto and Masana Izawa
Produced by Koichi Makigami

Released December 1996