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Orquesta Libre

Can't Help Falling in Love: Plays Standards Instrumental Version

(Glamorous Records, EWGL 0015) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Por una Cabeza (5:10)
  2. Hush (4:04)
  3. Purple Haze (8:47)
  4. I Say a Little Prayer (5:23)
  5. Close to You (8:10)
  6. Hello, Dolly (7:36)
  7. Le Clan des Siciliens (5:31)
  8. Ponta de Areia (6:18)
  9. Can't Help Falling in Love (11:33)

Music by Carlos Gardel (1), Joe South (2), Jimi Hendrix (3), Burt Bacharach (4, 5), Jerry Herman (6), Ennio Morricone (7), Milton Nascimento (8), and Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (9)
Arrangements by Taisei Aoki (1, 2, 4, 5, 7-9) and Masato Suzuki (3)

Orquesta Libre
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion
Taisei Aoki: trombone, keyboard harmonica
Hiroyuki Shiotani: soprano saxophone, clarinet
Daisuke Fujiwara: tenor saxophone
Takao Watanabe: trumpet
Gideon Jucks: tuba
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone, percussion
Masato Suzuki: bass
Motomu Shiiya: guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, banjo
Yoichi Okabe: percussion

Produced by Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Recorded by Tatsuki Masuko at Studio Greenbird, November 29-December 3 and December 18, 2011
Mixed and mastered by Tatsuki Masuko at Float, April and May 2012
Photos by Hideaki Sasaki and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Art direction by Hideaki Sasaki
Artwork by Workshy-Oishi
Includes Japanese liner notes by Yasuhiro Yoshigaki

Released in July 2012