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Tsuki No Wa

Moon Beams

(Soundscape, TKWCD-001) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Kanashii Iro (5:17)
  2. Hikosen (4:31)
  3. Plein Soleil (7:17)
  4. On Mother's Day (5:07)
  5. Sasurai no Cow Boy (10:30)
  6. Komugi Batake (7:11)
  7. Moon Beams (6:56)

Music by Fuminosuke (1, 2, 5, 6), Nino Rota (3), Takumi Ito (4), and Takuyuki Moriya (7)
All words by Fuminosuke
English translation by Samantha Young (4) and Kayoko Onizuka (7)

Tsuki No Wa
Fuminosuke: vocal, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Takumi Ito: tenor sax, keyboard
Takuyuki Moriya: contrabass, electric bass, piano
Hiromits Shoji: sound modulation, alto sax

Guests
DJ Klock: rhythm track (1)
Yoko Yamada: trombone (2, 7)
Yuta Suganuma: drums (2, 5, 6), percussion (3)
Farr: direction on percussion section (3)
mi-ne (Tomoyuki Haruyama, Daisuke Nishioka, Shinichi Sakurai, Yasushi Sekine, Kenkou Fukagawa): percussion (3)
mama!milk (Yuko Ikoma: accordion, Kosuke Shimizu: contrabass) (3)
Nikako Ichikawa: poetry reading (5)
Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida: voice, Utah Kawasaki: analogue synthesizer) (5)
Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar (6)

Recorded at Komaki Ballet School, Cafe & Bar Orphee, Sam's Old house, Reiko's Sui-jin Turtle House, Children's Corner Studio, Alchemy Studio, and Clockwise Tsukuba Studio, February-June 2003
Recorded, edited, and mixed by Hiromits Shoji, except mama!milk section, recorded and pre-mixed by Toshiaki Kitahara, and DJ Klock tracks recorded and pre-mixed by DJ Klock
Pre-production engineer: Ryo Tanaka
Mastered by Hiromits Shoji at Children's Corner Studio
Artwork by Enlightenment
Photographs by Nobuyuki Fujiuchi

Released in November 2003