Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Shun Sakai

I Am You

(SS Label, RO-2004) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Grape Fruit Moon (Tom Waits) (5:19)
  2. Jealous Fool --Jealous Guy-- (John Lennon) (5:48)
  3. Because the Night (Bruce Springsteen / Patti Smith) (5:16)
  4. Blues --Natsu to Ieba George-- (Shun Sakai) (6:19)
  5. I Am You (Sally Potter / Astor Piazzolla) (4:36)
  6. Another Sad Song (Tabatabai) (2:17)
  7. Baltimore (Randy Newman) (8:27)
  8. Genko Nobori Mata Kiete --Brazil-- (Shun Sakai / Ary Barroso) (5:14)
  9. Sori ni Nokosareta Yakusoku --Fairy Tale of N.Y.-- (Shun Sakai / Pogues) (7:52)
  10. Grape Fruit Moon (Tom Waits) (6:02)

Shun Sakai: vocal
Natsuki Kido (1-8): acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ukulele, vocal
Yoshiki Sakurai (1-8): acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap-steel guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, vocal
Keisuke Ota: violin (8, 9), voice (9)
Eiichi Hayashi: alto sax (8)
Takero Sekijima (9): tuba, soprano recorder
Nao Takeuchi (9, 10): tenor sax, flute
Kyoko Kuroda: piano (9, 10)
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki (2, 4, 8): drums, percussion, trumpet

Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound Studio in Tokyo on September 8 and 9, 1999, except tracks 9 and 10, recorded live by Atsushi Tanaka at Space Alta in Shinyokohama on December 15, 2000
Mastered by Yukio Kojima
Illustration by Kazue Mori
Design by Kazue Mori and Erica Tanabe
Produced by Shun Sakai

Released 2001