Tokyo Joe (album)
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Tokyo Joe is a 1978 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe
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The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s.
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...
and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe
Kazumi Watanabe
Kazumi Watanabe is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist, from Tokyo, Japan. He was born on October 14, 1953 Kazumi learned to play guitar from Sadanori Nakamure, one of Japan's grandmaster guitarists. Kazumi released his first recording in 1971, and quickly became a promising guitarist in his own right...
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The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s.
Track listing
- "Tokyo Joe"
- "The End of Asia"
- "Zai Gvang Dong Shoo Nian"
- "I'll Be There"
- "E-Day Project"
- "Thousand Knives"
- "The River Must Flow"
- "Akasaka Moon"
Personnel
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, drums, marimbaMarimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
, - Kazumi Watanabe - guitar, bass, vocals
- Akiko YanoAkiko Yanois a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer. She was born as Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo and raised in Aomori, Aomori, and later began her singing career in the mid-1970s...
- keyboards, electric piano, vocals, synthesizer - Ray J. O'Hara - bass
- Haruomi HosonoHaruomi Hosono, also known as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese popular musician, best known internationally as a key member of the rock band Happy End and the pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra.-Biography:...
- cymbal - Shigeharu Mukai - trombone
- Shuichi Murakami - drums
- Toshiyuki Honda - saxophones
- Yukihiro TakahashiYukihiro TakahashiYukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...
- drums, vocals - Motoya Hamaguchi - drums
- Shigeya Hamaguchi - percussion
- Yasuaki ShimizuYasuaki Shimizuis a composer, saxophonist and producer. He is known for his interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach, in particular the "Cello Suites 1-6" re-arranged for and performed on tenor saxophone....
- tenor sax - Ohno Ensemble - strings
- Hideki MatsutakeHideki MatsutakeHideki Matsutake is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. He is known for his pioneering work in electronic music and particularly music programming, as the assistant of Isao Tomita during the early 1970s and as the "fourth member" of the band Yellow Magic Orchestra during the...
- synthesizer