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Akira Sakata

Omusubi

(Gambaranai, GNCD-0002) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Omusubi (7:07)
  2. My Funny Valentine (7:12)
  3. Hoshi Meguri no Uta (The Twin Stars) (5:11)
  4. Shinda Otoko no Nokoshita Mono wa (All That the Man Left Behind When He Died) (8:40)
  5. Memories of You (3:52)
  6. Omusubi [Usujio Version] (9:20)

Music by Akira Sakata (1, 6), Richard Rodgers (2), Kenji Miyazawa (3), Toru Takemitsu (4), and Eubie Blake (5)
Words by Kenji Miyazawa (3) and Shuntaro Tanikawa (4)

Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, poetry reading, bells, bird call
Kyoko Kuroda: piano, vocal
Vagabond Suzuki: wood bass (1-4, 6)
Manabu Sakata: drums (1-4, 6)

Produced by Minoru Kamata and Akira Sakata
Recorded by Yasuo Morimoto at Wonder Station, December 6 and 7, 2007, and at Crescente Studio, December 14, 2007
Mixed by Yasuo Morimoto
Mastered by Yuka Koizumi at Orange, December 15, 2007
Art direction and design by Cheap Pop
Artwork by Kimiyoshi Futori

Released in January 2008