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Eurasian Echoes

(nices, Sound Space/Samsung, SCO-070CSS) (CD)


  1. The Dawning (7:27)
  2. Red Lotus (Itabashi) (7:42)
  3. To Accompany You (Korean traditional) (5:22)
  4. Midare (7:54)
  5. Wild Horse Running Free (Mongolian traditional) (2:40)
  6. King Learšs Theme (Saitoh) (13:08)
  7. Salpuri (Korean traditional) (12:50)
  8. Sigimseh (Korean traditional) (14:56)

  1. Fumio Itabashi (piano), Won Jang-Hyun (daegum)
  2. Qi Baoligao (morin khuur), Fumio Itabashi (piano)
  3. An Sook-Sun (vocal), Won Jang-Hyun (daegum), Lee Tae-Baek (buk), Tetsu Saitoh (bass)
  4. Kazue Sawai (koto), Kim Suk-Chul (vocal, changgo and jing)
  5. Qi Baoligao (morin khuur), Tetsu Saitoh (bass)
  6. Qi Baoligao (morin khuur), Tetsu Saitoh (bass), Kazue Sawai (koto), Kim Suk-Chul (taepyungso), Lee Kwang-Soo (changgo)
  7. Won Jang-Hyun (daegum), Fumio Itabashi (piano), Tetsu Saitoh (bass), Qi Baoligao (morin khuur), An Sook-Sun (kayagum), Kim Suk-Chul (jing), Lee Kwang-Soo (changgo), Lee Tae-Baek (ajaeng), Kazue Sawai (koto)
  8. Kazue Sawai (koto), Tetsu Saitoh (bass), Qi Baoligao (morin khuur), Fumio Itabashi (piano), Lee Kwang-Soo (changgo), Kim Suk-Chul (taepyngso)

Recorded live by Takashi Uetsuki at Hoam Art Hall, Seoul in July, 1994
Mastered by Keiko Ueda
Produced by Sohn Ah-Sun and Ichiro Shimizu
Cover illustration by Cho Sung-Mu
Title illustration by Sung Yoon
Photography by Ichiro Shimizu
Art design by Lee Dong-Il
Includes liner notes (in Korean and English) by Masahiko Yu

Released 1996