Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Jim O'Rourke

All Kinds of People: Love Burt Bacharach

(AWDR/LR2 / B.J.L., DDCB-13010) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Close to You (5:08)
  2. Always Something There to Remind Me (3:22)
  3. Anonymous Phone Call (5:22)
  4. After the Fox (3:20)
  5. You'll Never Get to Heaven (4:02)
  6. Do You Know the Way to San Jose (6:17)
  7. Don't Make Me Over (3:13)
  8. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (2:55)
  9. I Say a Little Prayer (4:36)
  10. Trains and Boats and Planes (4:06)
  11. Walk On By (4:42)

All music by Burt Bacharach except track 10, by Burt Bacharach and Hal David
All words by Hal David except track 10, by Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Haruomi Hosono: vocal (1)
Jim O'Rourke: bass (1, 4, 6, 10), backing vocals (2-4), guitars (2-5, 7, 11), harpsichord (4), banjo (4), cello (5, 6, 11), organ (7), Wurlitzer (9), vocal (10)
Glenn Kotche: drums (1-11)
Kyoko Kuroda: piano (1, 3-5, 10)
Yuji Katsui: violin (1, 5, 11)
Mikiko Narui: violin (1, 5, 11), viola (1, 11)
Eiko Ishibashi: flute (1, 8, 9)
Thurston Moore: vocal (2), noise (2)
Toshiaki Sudoh: bass (2-5, 7-9, 11)
Makoto Kuriya: piano (2, 6, 11)
Etsuko Yakushimaru: vocal (3)
Akira Sakata: vocal (4), clarinet (4)
Masaya Nakahara: vocal (4)
Yoichi Aoyama: vocal (5), backing vocals (5), electric guitar (5), acoustic guitar (5)
Kahimi Karie: vocal (6)
Shiro Sasaki: trumpet (6)
Chu Kosaka: vocal (7)
Satoko Fujii: piano (7-9)
Mitsuko Koike: vocal (8)
Yoshio Machida: steelpan (8)
Yoshimi: vocal (9), trumpet (9), percussion (9)
Donna Taylor: vocal (11), backing vocals (11)

Haruomi Hosono (1) recorded by Hiroshi Haraguchi and Haruomi Hosono at DW Studio
Thurston Moore (2) recorded by Aaron Mullan
Etsuko Yakushimaru (3) recorded by Kenji Kondo at Kaede Koji Recorder
Akira Sakata and Masaya Nakahara (4) recorded by Jim O'Rourke at steamroom
Yoichi Aoyama (5) recorded at Odrel Fantasy Factory
Kahimi Karie (6) recorded by Jim O'Rourke at steamroom
Chu Kosaka (7) recorded by Kakumi Nishigomi at Studio adamants
Mitsuko Koike (8) recorded by Shinichi Akagawa at Strip Studio Tokyo
Yoshimi (9) recorded by Koichi Hara
Jim O'Rourke (10) recorded at steamroom
Donna Taylor (11) recorded by Gregg Pagani at 1023Productions Studio

Produced and arranged by Jim O'Rourke
Music recorded at Magnet Sound Studio, steamroom, and GOK Sound
Mixed by Jim O'Rourke at steamroom
Mastered by Kazuie Sugimoto at JVC Mastering Center
Illustrations by Yoshitaro Isaka
Art direction by Takashi Igarashi
Design by Yusuke Hayashi
The first press includes 12 cards with an illustration on one side and personnel for 1 track on the other

Released in April 2010