Tokyo Joe (album)

Tokyo Joe
Compilation album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kazumi Watanabe
Released	1978
Genre	Electronica, Synthpop, Fusion
Length	50:12
Label	Nippon Columbia (originally), Denon (re-release)

Tokyo Joe is a 1978 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It is a compilation of tracks from the albums Thousand Knives (1978), Kylyn (1979), Kylyn Live (1979) and the track "Tokyo Joe" which appeared on a various artists anthology Tokyo-Paris-London-New York, Dancing Night. The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s.

Track listing

1. "Tokyo Joe" (Bryan Ferry)
2. "The End of Asia" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
3. "Zai Gvang Dong Shoo Nian" (Akiko Yano)
4. "I'll Be There" (Akiko Yano, Ryuichi Sakamoto)
5. "E-Day Project" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
6. "Thousand Knives" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
7. "The River Must Flow" (Gino Vannelli)
8. "Akasaka Moon" (Kazumi Watanabe)

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, drums, marimba,
• Kazumi Watanabe - guitar, bass, vocals
• Akiko Yano - keyboards, electric piano, vocals, synthesizer
• Ray J. O'Hara - bass
• Haruomi Hosono - cymbal
• Shigeharu Mukai - trombone
• Shuichi Murakami - drums
• Toshiyuki Honda - saxophones
• Yukihiro Takahashi - drums, vocals
• Motoya Hamaguchi - drums
• Shigeya Hamaguchi - percussion
• Yasuaki Shimizu - tenor saxophone
• Ohno Ensemble - strings
• Hideki Matsutake - synthesizer

External links

• Tokyo Joe at Discogs (list of releases)