Taku Sugimoto

Fragments of Paradise

(Test/Creativeman Disc., CMDD-00063) (CD)

1. Improvisation (1:24)
2. Last Letter (2:56)
3. A Wispering Page (3:02)
4. Prime Opere (3:37)
5. PeterÕs Burg (an advance notice) (0:50)
6. E (2:47)
7. Rub Sand (1:42)
8. Fragments of Paradise (3:08)
9. Blue (0:43)
10. Birds of Winter (3:28)
11. PeterÕs Burg (3:18)
12. Sub Rosa (1:46)
13. Improvisation (2:52)
14. A La Ligera II (3:38)

Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar, piano (5)
Hisao Mashida: electric guitar (2-4, 6-8, 11, 13, 14)
Tetuzi Akiyama: viola (10), electric guitar (14)
Shigeru Yokoto: harmonica (10)
Rinji Fukuoka: piano (13)

All the music was composed by Taku Sugimoto, except: tracks 3 and 6 by Sugimoto and Hisao Mashida, track 7 by Mashida, track 13 improvised by Sugimoto, Mashida and Rinji Fukuoka, and track 14 composed by Shimpour Yanagawa and arranged by Sugimoto.

Recorded at Rinky Dink Studio, Tokyo in June 1997
Engineered by Shoichiro Setoyama
Produced by Taku Sugimoto and Hidenobu Kaneda

Art direction and illustration: Taku Sugimoto
Photography and illustration: Masae Tanabe
Design: Yoshiaki Ohhinata

Released November 1997

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