Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives Of
Label: Denon – DC-8571
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: 1978 / 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Experimental
1. Thousand Knives Cymbal [Finger Cymbals] – Harry Hosono* Electronic Drums [Syn-drum Solo] – Motoya Hamaguchi Guitar [Alembic Guitar Solo] – Kazumi Watanabe 9:36
2. Island Of Woods Performer [Brazilian Bird Whistles] – Motoya Hamaguchi 9:51
3. Grasshoppers Piano – Yuji Takahashi 5:16
4. Das Neue Japanische Elektronische Volkslied Castanets – Tatsuro Yamashita 8:06
5. Plastic Bamboo Electronic Drums [Syn-drum Solo] – Pecker 6:31
6. The End Of Asia Guitar [Alembic Guitar Solo & Rhythm] – Kazumi Watanabe 6:23
Design [Cover] – Satoshi Saitoh
Liner Notes – Harry Hosono*, Hikaru Hayashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Management [Recording] – Akira Ikuta
Photography By [Cover] – Makoto Iida
Producer, Composed By, Orchestrated By, Performer, Synthesizer, Piano, Marimba – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Programmed By [Computer Operation & Synthesizer Programming Assistance] – Hideki Matsutake
Notes
Recorded from 4/10 to 7/27, 1978 at Columbia Studio No. 1, 2 & 4 Tokyo.
Ryuichi Sakamoto plays:
Moog III-C w. Roland MC-8 Micro Composer, Poly Moog, Mini Moog, Micro Moog, Oberheim Eight Voice Polyphonic w. Digital Programmer, ARP Odyssey
KORG PS-3100 Polyphonic, KORG VC-10 Vocoder, KORG SQ-10 Analog Sequencer, Syn-Drums, Acoustic Piano, Marimba
Reissue of the Denon 1984 release.