Track listing

1. "Heartbeat" (Sakamoto/lyrics by Jeffrey Cohen) 4:46
2. "Rap the World" (Sakamoto/Jungle DJ Towa Towa/Super DJ Dmitry) 4:53
3. "Triste" 4:23
4. "Lulu" 4:19
5. "High Tide" 4:47
6. "Song Lines" 2:56
7. "Nuages" (Traditional) 2:15
8. "Sayonara" 5:24
9. "Borom Gal" 3:59
10. "Epilogue" 3:42
11. "Heartbeart (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb" (Sakamoto/Sylvian/Lindsay) 5:20
12. "Cloud #9" (Sakamoto/Sylvian) 5:17

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   - keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
• Steven Bernstein - trumpet (1, 3, 4)
• Dee Dee Brave - vocals (1, 8)
• Satoshi Tomiie
  Satoshi Tomiie
  Satoshi Tomiie is a Japanese house-music producer and DJ. He has written music for numerous soundtracks, including for the Animatrix soundtrack and remixed many artists including the Future Sound of London.-History:...
  
   - percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
• Magic Dick
  Magic Dick
  Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz was the harmonica player for The J. Geils Band. In addition to the harmonica, Salwitz plays the trumpet and saxophone. He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he met John "J" Geils and Danny Klein and became a founding member of...
  
   - harmonica
• Marco Prince - vocals (3)
• John Lurie
  John Lurie
  John Lurie is an American actor, musician, painter and producer. He is co-founder of The Lounge Lizards, a jazz ensemble. Lurie has acted in 19 films including Stranger than Paradise and Down by Law, composed and performed music for 20 television and film works, and he produced and starred in...
  
   - sax (4)
• Debra Barsha - backing vocals (4)
• Arto Lindsay
  Arto Lindsay
  Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
  
   - vocals (5)
• Houria Aichi - vocals (7)
• Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour
  Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...
  
    - vocals (9)
• Bill Frisell
  Bill Frisell
  William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an American guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s, Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise and more...
  
   - guitar (11, 12)
• Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Julia Chavez is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.-Personal life:Chavez was born January 21, 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and raised in Marietta, Georgia...
  
   - vocals (11, 12)
• John Cage
  John Cage
  John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
  
   - voice (11)
• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
  - vocals (11, 12)

Additional personnel

• Lolly Grodner - engineer (11, 12)
• Patrick Dillett - engineer (all tracks except 12)
• Yoshifumi Iio (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)