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Naoyuki Masuda

Sketches of North Kamakura

(SPC Records, SPC-NM-0001) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Manieristic Slumber (2:51)
  2. The Top of Takatori Rock (1:37)
  3. North Kamakura (4:51)
  4. A Level Check (3:02)
  5. Kajiwara (5:30)
  6. Sandalwood Rain (6:15)
  7. Crystal 2 - 17 (3:28)
  8. Pathway to the Sanatorium (7:51)
  9. White Meringue (2:02)
  10. Sales, Dogs, Sands (2:23)
  11. The Scene on a Morning in Winter (3:02)
  12. Improvisation in E (2:00)
  13. Sentry in the Dark Tunnel (3:57)

Naoyuki Masuda: words and music, guitar, modulator (2), percussion (5, 9), emergency bell (5), saw (9)
Yoshiko Kitamura (1): vocal
Takeshi Takatsuka (2, 7, 12): drums
Midori Eto (6, 9, 11): whistle, flute, percussion
Osamu Saruyama (4, 6): contrabass
Madoko Hagi (4, 6): percussion
Fumio Kosakai (5): steel locker
Kazuo Miyamoto (7, 12): electric bass
Ichiro Nagahara (8): keyboards
Tetuzi Akiyama (10): guitar

Produced by Naoyuki Masuda, except (8), remixed and produced by Ichiro Nagahara
Recorded in February and March 2002
Digital engineering (1, 11, 13) by Jun Harada
Mastered by Masami Irumagawa
Photo by Naoyuki Masuda
Design by Tomomi Nagakura
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English by Ichiro Nagahara (English translation by Nobutaka Toki)

Released in 2002