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Uni-Marca

Uni-Marca

(Zipangu Products, ZIP-0025) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Haru wa Bakuzen no Te no Yode Aru (4:57)
  2. And Ten to Sen (2:40)
  3. Himekuri Mekutte Himeguri Megutte (1:47)
  4. Sabaku no Yume (3:46)
  5. Chosho Aruiwa My Way (3:01)
  6. Kokokara Mita Tokoro (2:03)
  7. Parade (3:48)
  8. My Old Kentucky Home (1:43)
  9. Shashin no Yoni Ongaku wo (7:47)
  10. Anata to Naraba (2:19)
  11. Nonsense Geki (14:07)
  12. Tori no Uta (2:53)
  13. Till We Meet Again (2:53)

Music by Kazuki Kunihiro (1, 5); Jun Kawasaki (2, 4, 9); Naoyuki Asahina (3); Jiro Imai (6, 7, 12); S.C. Foster (8); D. Dreyer (10); Reki Shibata and Jun Kawasaki (11); and R.A. Whiting (13)
Words by e.e. cummings [Japanese translation by Yasuo Fujitomi] (1); Kazuki Kunihiro (2); Naoyuki Asahina (3, 7); Reki Shibata (4, 6, 9, 11, 12); F.G. Lorca [Japanese translation by Tadashi Tsuzumi] (5); S.C. Foster (8); Tokuichi Mine (10); and R.B. Egan (13)
Arrangements by Uni-Marca (1-5, 9-13) and Haruna Miyake (8)

Uni-Marca
Reki Shibata: vocals, readings
Jun Kawasaki: contrabss, bells

Recorded by Noh Sujeong at 246 Studio, Tokyo
Mixed by Toshinori Sakai (1, 2, 5, 7-9, 11, 13) and Noh Sujeong (3, 4, 6, 10, 12)
Mastered by Toshinori Sakai
Design by Yayoi Kato and Mitsutaka Yokota
Photos by Kai Hirata
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Junichi Konuma

Released in December 2006