Heartbeat (Sakamoto album)

Heartbeat
Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released	1991 (Japan), 28 July, 1992 (USA)
Genre	Synthpop, Experimental rock
Label	Virgin Records America
Producer	Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (11, 12), Satoshi Tomiie (track 1)

Heartbeat is a 1991 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Track listing

All songs written by Ryuichi Sakamoto, except where noted.

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 - 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)

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)