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Taku Sugimoto

Fragments of Paradise

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

  1. Improvisation (for Carnadin Thompson) (1:24)
  2. Last Letter (2:57)
  3. A Whispering Page (3:02)
  4. Prime Opere (3:37)
  5. Peter's 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. Peter's Burg (3:19)
  12. Sub Rosa (1:46)
  13. Improvisation (2:52)
  14. A La Ligera II (3:38)

All music 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

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)

Recorded by Shoichiro Setoyama at Rinky Dink Studio, Tokyo, June 1997
Mastered by Yukio Kojima at Kojima Recordings
Produced by Taku Sugimoto and Hidenobu Kaneda
Art direction and illustration by Taku Sugimoto
Photos and illustration by Masae Tanabe
Design by Yoshiaki Ohhinata

Released in November 1997