Heartbeat | ||||
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Released | October 21, 1991 (Japan) July 28, 1992 (USA) | |||
Genre | Synthpop, experimental rock | |||
Label | Virgin Records America | |||
Producer | Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (11, 12), Satoshi Tomiie (track 1) | |||
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1996 is a 1996 album by Japanese composer and pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto. It contains a selection of Sakamoto's most popular compositions plus two new.
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Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records. A second version of the album was released in the United States and Europe in 1992, which replaced the original version of 'Tainai Kalki' with the David Sylvian-featuring version, 'Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb', as well as English versions of 'High Tide' and 'Sayonara', and bonus song 'Cloud #9'.
Track listing[edit]
Japanese version | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
1. | 'Heartbeat' | Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen | 4:46 |
2. | 'Rap the World' | Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry | 4:53 |
3. | 'Triste' | Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince | 4:23 |
4. | 'Lulu' | Sakamoto | 4:19 |
5. | 'High Tide' (sung in Japanese) | Sakamoto | 4:47 |
6. | 'Song Lines' | Sakamoto | 2:56 |
7. | 'Nuages' | (Traditional) | 2:15 |
8. | 'Sayonara' (sung in Japanese) | Sakamoto | 5:24 |
9. | 'Borom Gal' | Sakamoto | 3:59 |
10. | 'Epilogue' | Sakamoto | 3:42 |
11. | 'Tainai Kaiki II' | Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay | 5:20 |
Total length: | 46:43 |
International version | |||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
1. | 'Heartbeat' | Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen | 4:46 |
2. | 'Rap the World' | Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry | 4:53 |
3. | 'Triste' | Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince | 4:23 |
4. | 'Lulu' | Sakamoto | 4:19 |
5. | 'High Tide' (sung in English) | Sakamoto | 4:47 |
6. | 'Song Lines' | Sakamoto | 2:56 |
7. | 'Nuages' | (Traditional) | 2:15 |
8. | 'Sayonara' (sung in English) | Sakamoto | 5:24 |
9. | 'Borom Gal' | Sakamoto | 3:59 |
10. | 'Epilogue' | Sakamoto | 3:42 |
11. | 'Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb' | Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay | 5:20 |
12. | 'Cloud #9' | Sakamoto, Sylvian | 5:17 |
Total length: | 52:00 |
Personnel[edit]
Performers
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
- Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4)
- Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8)
- Satoshi Tomiie – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
- Magic Dick – harmonica
- Marco Prince – vocals (3)
- John Lurie – sax (4)
- Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4)
- Arto Lindsay – vocals (5)
- Houria Aichi – vocals (7)
- Youssou N'Dour – vocals (9)
- Bill Frisell – guitar (11, 12)
- Ingrid Chavez – vocals (11, 12)
- John Cage – voice (11)
- David Sylvian – vocals (11, 12)
Technical
- Lolly Grodner – engineer (11, 12)
- Patrick Dillett – engineer (all tracks except 12)
- Yoshifumi Iio – engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
- Jungle DJ Towa Towa – co-producer (2)
- Axel Niehaus – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
- Fernando Aponte – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
- Jim Caruana – assistant engineer (11, 12)
- Koichiro Nagao – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
- Wes Naprstek – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
References[edit]
- ^Hayes, Kevin. 'Beauty'. AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
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