Heartbeat (Sakamoto album)

Heartbeat

Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Released

October 21, 1991 (Japan)
July 28, 1992 (USA)

Genre

Synthpop, Experimental rock

Label

Virgin Records America

Producer

Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (11, 12), Satoshi Tomiie (track 1)

Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology

The Sheltering Sky
(1990)

Heartbeat
(1991)

Little Buddha
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen	4:46
2.	"Rap the World"	Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry	4:53
3.	"Triste"	Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince	4:23
4.	"Lulu"	Sakamoto	4:19
5.	"High Tide"	Sakamoto	4:47
6.	"Song Lines"	Sakamoto	2:56
7.	"Nuages"	(Traditional)	2:15
8.	"Sayonara"	Sakamoto	5:24
9.	"Borom Gal"	Sakamoto	3:59
10.	"Epilogue"	Sakamoto	3:42
11.	"Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb"	Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay	5:20
12.	"Cloud #9"	Sakamoto, Sylvian	5:17

Personnel

Performers

Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4)
Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8)
Satoshi Tomiie – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Magic Dick – harmonica
Marco Prince – vocals (3)
John Lurie – sax (4)
Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4)
Arto Lindsay – vocals (5)
Houria Aichi – vocals (7)
Youssou N'Dour – vocals (9)
Bill Frisell – guitar (11, 12)
Ingrid Chavez – vocals (11, 12)
John Cage – voice (11)
David Sylvian – vocals (11, 12)

Technical

Lolly Grodner – engineer (11, 12)
Patrick Dillett – engineer (all tracks except 12)
Yoshifumi Iio – engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Jungle DJ Towa Towa – co-producer (2)
Axel Niehaus – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Fernando Aponte – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Jim Caruana – assistant engineer (11, 12)
Koichiro Nagao – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Wes Naprstek – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)

References

↑ Hayes, Kevin. "Beauty". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 31, 2016.

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Studio albums

Solo	Thousand Knives (1978) B-2 Unit (1980) Left-Handed Dream (1981) Ongaku Zukan (1984) Esperanto (1985) Futurista (1986) Neo Geo (1987) Beauty (1989) Heartbeat (1991) Sweet Revenge (1994) Smoochy (1995) 1996 (1996) Discord (1997) BTTB (1999) Comica (2002) Elephantism (2002) Chasm (2004) Out of Noise (2009) Three (2012)

Collaborations	Disappointment-Hateruma (1975) Summer Nerves (1979) The End of Asia (1982) The Arrangement (1982) Casa (2001) Vrioon (2002) A Day in New York (2003) Insen (2005) Ocean Fire (2007) Cendre (2007) utp_ (2008) Summvs (2011) Flumina (2011) Ancient Future (2012) Perpetual (2015)

Extended plays

Music for Yohji Yamamoto: Collection, 1995 (1997)
Zero Landmine (2001)
World Citizen (2003)
Sala Santa Cecilia (2005)
Revep (2006)

Live albums

Media Bahn Live (1986)
Playing the Orchestra (1988)
Asian Games (1993)
Cinemage (1999)
Audio Life (2000)
In The Lobby: At G.E.H. in London (2001)
Playing the Piano (2009)

Compilations

Tokyo Joe (1978)
Coda (1983)
Soundbytes (1994)
Works I – CM (2002)
Moto.tronic (2003)
/04 (2004)
/05 (2005)
Bricolages (2006)
Year Book 2005–2014 (2015)
Year Book 1971-1979 (2016)

Soundtracks

Songs

Filmography

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
The Last Emperor (1987)
"Rain" (1993)
New Rose Hotel (1998)
Neo the Office Chuckler (2004)
Freeter, Ie wo Kau (2010)
Hungry! (2012)
Rich Man, Poor Woman (2012)

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