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Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden

Franz Kafka's Amerika

(P-Vine Records, PCD-18514/5) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Perfect Days for Jungle Cruise (21:50)
  2. (It's a Small) World Music's World (6:54)
  3. The Crying of Lot 49 (15:11)

Disc 2

  1. Washington D.C. (8:20)
  2. 1865 Richmond, VA (24:08)
  3. Fox Trot (12:22)
  4. Hoa-ky (13:26)

All music composed and arranged by Naruyoshi Kikuchi

Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: conductor, CD-J, keyboard
Jason Shalton: guitar
Koki Takai: guitar
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums
Nobuo Fujii: drums
Masaki Kurihara: bass
Kenta Tsugami: soprano saxophone
Gosekky: tenor saxophone
Masayasu Tzuboguchi: keyboard, synthesizer
Gen Ogimi: percussion
Masaki Yoshimi: tabla
Takero Sekijima: tuba
Taisei Aoki: trombone
Shiro Sasaki: trumpet

Produced by Naruyoshi Kikuchi
Recorded by Kenji Konishi at Sound Inn and aLive Recording Studio
Edited by Shigeki Nakamura at Andy's Studio
Mixed by Shigeki Nakamura (disc 1, track 1; disc 2, tracks 3 and 4) and Kenji Konishi (disc 1, tracks 2 and 3; disc 2, tracks 1 and 2)
Mastered by Osamu Shimojyu at On Air Mastering
Artwork by Sun An

Released in April 2007