Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Naruyoshi Kikuchi

Elizabeth Taylor en Amérique du Sud

(EWE Records, EWCD 0104D) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Lounge Time #1 (00:55)
  2. Nocturne for Machiko Kyo (8:31)
  3. The Look of Love (5:22)
  4. Jorge Luis Borges (5:26)
  5. Elizabeth Taylor en Parisian (Non-Existence) (11:04)
  6. The Latina Elizabeth Taylor (6:23)
  7. Lounge Time #2 (1:06)
  8. Lounge Time #3 (1:28)
  9. Corcovado (5:57)
  10. The Funeral of Lupe Vélez (7:56)
  11. Crazy He Calls Me (4:33)
  12. Song of the Latina Elizabeth Taylor (2:34)

Bonus track

  1. The Funeral of Lupe Vélez [live version] (8:22)

All compositions and lyrics by Naruyoshi Kikuchi except (1), by Nobuki Nakajima; (3), by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; (9), by Antonio Carlos Jobim; and (11), by Bob Russell and Carl Sigman
Strings arranged by Nobuyuki Nakajima

Naruyoshi Kikuchi: saxophone (2, 6-13), vocal (3, 11, 12), piano (4), handclap (4, 6)
Nobuo Fujii: drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 11)
Mari Kimura: harp (1-6, 10, 11)
Hiroshi Minami: piano (2, 6, 10)
Hiroaki Mizutani: bass (2, 6, 10)
Gen Ogimi: percussion (2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13)
William Sabati: bandoneón (2, 4, 10)
Kahimi Karie: vocal (3, 11)
Masayasu Tzboguchi: piano (3, 5, 9, 11)
Masaaki Kikuchi: bass (3, 4, 5, 9, 11)
Otomo Yoshihide: guitar (3, 7, 8, 12)
Yayako Uchida: voice (5)
Kasper Tranberg: cornet (5, 6, 11)
Jun Hayakawa: bandoneon (13)
Masaki Hayashi: piano (13)
Keisuke Torigoe: bass (13)
Michiaki Tanaka: percussion (13)
Aya Horigome: harp (13)
Shohei Yoshida: violin (13)
Mika Naramura: violin (13)
Mikiyo Kikuchi: viola (13)
Seigen Tokuzawa: cello (13)
Volunteers: handclapping (4, 6)
Strings Quartet (1-4, 10, 11)
Chiyoko Noguchi: violin
Wakako Hanada: violin
Fumiko Kai: viola
Susumu Miyake: cello

Tracks 1-12:
Recorded and mixed September 2004-March 2005
Recorded at Onkio Haus, Free Studio, Syn Studio, and Plus XXX Paris
Mixed at Syn Studio
Engineered by Takashi Akaku and Pierrick Devin
Mastered by Masao Nakazato at Onkio Haus, Nakazato Room, March 19, 2005

Bonus track:
Recorded live by Hiroshi Kasuga at Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo, December 4, 2009
Mixed by Hiroshi Kasuga

Remastered by Wataru Ishii at Onkio Haus Mastering, May 11, 2010
Produced by Naruyoshi Kikuchi
Art direction and design by Tadashi Kitagawa
Photos by Yayoi Arimoto
Hair and make-up by Pierre François Carasco
Includes a 24-page booklet with liner notes by Naruyoshi Kikuchi (in Japanese and French; French translation by Hajime Fukuda)
Japanese translation of lyrics on (3) and (11) by Naruyoshi Kikuchi and Toshiyuki Ohwada; English translation of lyrics on (12) by Toshiyuki Ohwada

Released in June 2010
Originally released in 2005 as a CD (with no bonus track)