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Satoru Wono

Bikini Moon

(Sony Music Entertainment, SRCL 4225) (CD)

  1. Far from the Earth (1:59)
  2. Mechanical Facts (3:47)
  3. Bikini Moon (5:51)
  4. Vacance (5:43)
  5. Preparato (5:23)
  6. different Engine (4:39)
  7. Mayim Mayim (5:26)
  8. Lost Future (5:22)
  9. Space Travel Had Begun (4:32)
  10. Party Planet (Horny Party Mix) (5:21)
  11. Horizon (1:40)

All words and music by Satoru Wono, except track 7, by Pugachov Amiran
All arrangements and programming by Satoru Wono at Audio Fiction Research

Satoru Wono: synthesizer (1-11), sampler (1-11), turntable (1, 2, 4, 10), vocal (2, 7, 8), piano (2, 4-6, 8, 10, 11), ray-gun (2), melodica (5, 7, 8), harmonium (7, 11)
Mami Watanabe: vocal (3, 8)
Pierre!: chorus (3)
Kunikazu Tanaka: sax (3, 5, 10)
Nobumichi Tosa: timapni (3), vocal (7)
Yoko Ueno: vocal (4)
Gen Hosokawa: flugelhorn (4)
Masahiko Kitahara: trombone (5, 10)
Steve Eto: percussion (5, 7), voice (7)
Hal-oh Togashi: synthesizer (6)
Masamichi Tosa: vocal (7)
Hitoshi Taguchi: vocal (7)
Seiichiro Goda: vocal (7)
Naruyoshi Kikuchi: sax (8)
Tellassit!: guitar (8)
Yoshihide Otomo: turntable, DJ mixer, etc. (9)
Nargo: trumpet (10)

Recorded and mixed at Maruni Studio and Westside Studio by Yoshi Tamura, except track 1, mixed by Satoru Wono and Satoru Arai
Mastered by Mitsuko Tokunaga at Sony Music Shinanomachi Studio
Art direction and photography: Hibiki Tokiwa

Released May 1998