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Orquesta Libre

Uta no Ka Ta Ti: Plays Standards Chant Version

(Glamorous Records, EWGL 0013/0014) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Red disc

  1. Alabama Song [Kurt Weil] (4:30)
  2. Die Ballade von der Sexuellen Hörigkeit [Kurt Weil] (5:31)
  3. Die Moritat von Mackie Messer [Kurt Weil] (6:14)
  4. Ballade über die Frage: "Wovon Lebt der Mensch?" [Kurt Weil] (5:30)
  5. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye [Cole Porter] (5:20)
  6. Alfie [Burt Bacharach] (7:03)
  7. Smile [Charlie Chaplin] (3:32)

Yellow disc

  1. Cecilia [Paul Simon] (6:00)
  2. Gauloises wo Sutta Kotoga Arukai [Hiroshi Kamayatsu] (6:02)
  3. Lili Marleen--The Blue March of Turkey [Norbert Schultze] (7:40)
  4. Les Champs-Elysees [Mike Wilsh, Mike Deighan] (5:00)
  5. Purple Haze [Jimi Hendrix] (8:06)
  6. I Shall Be Released [Bob Dylan] (7:28)

Arrangements by Taisei Aoki (red disc: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7; yellow disc: 1, 3), Taisei Aoki and Uchihashi Kazuhisa (red disc: 3), and Masato Suzuki (red disc: 5; yellow disc: 2, 5, 6)

Orquesta Libre
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: drums, percussion
Taisei Aoki: trombone, keyboard harmonica
Hiroyuki Shiotani: soprano saxophone, clarinet
Daisuke Fujiwara: tenor saxophone
Takao Watanabe: trumpet
Gideon Jucks: tuba
Kumiko Takara: vibraphone, percussion, keyboard harmonica
Masato Suzuki: bass, guitar
Motomu Shiiya: guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, banjo
Yoichi Okabe: percussion

Guests
Yoichiro Yanagihara: vocals, guitar (red disc)
Yuichi Ohata: vocals, guitar (yellow disc)

Produced by Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Recorded by Tatsuki Masuko at Studio Greenbird, November 29-December 3 and December 18, 2011, and at Pit Inn, Shinjuku, Tokyo, April 17, 2012
Mixed and mastered by Tatsuki Masuko at Float, April and May 2012
Photos by Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Ikumi Sakamura, Masako Maehara, and Ryu Ueno
Art direction and design by Sunui
Includes Japanese liner notes by Yasuhiro Yoshigaki

Released in July 2012