Tokyo Joe (album)

Tokyo Joe

Compilation album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kazumi Watanabe
Released	1978
Genre	Electronica, Synthpop, Fusion
Length	50:12
Label	Nippon Columbia (originally), Denon (re-release)

Tokyo Joe is a 1978 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe. It is a compilation of tracks from the albums Thousand Knives (1978), Kylyn (1979), Kylyn Live (1979) and the track "Tokyo Joe" which appeared on a various artists anthology Tokyo-Paris-London-New York, Dancing Night. The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s.

Track listing

"Tokyo Joe" (Bryan Ferry)
"The End of Asia" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
"Zai Gvang Dong Shoo Nian" (Akiko Yano)
"I'll Be There" (Akiko Yano, Ryuichi Sakamoto)
"E-Day Project" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
"Thousand Knives" (Ryuichi Sakamoto)
"The River Must Flow" (Gino Vannelli)
"Akasaka Moon" (Kazumi Watanabe)

Personnel

Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, drums, marimba,
Kazumi Watanabe - guitar, bass, vocals
Akiko Yano - keyboards, electric piano, vocals, synthesizer
Ray J. O'Hara - bass
Haruomi Hosono - cymbal
Shigeharu Mukai - trombone
Shuichi Murakami - drums
Toshiyuki Honda - saxophones
Yukihiro Takahashi - drums, vocals
Motoya Hamaguchi - drums
Shigeya Hamaguchi - percussion
Yasuaki Shimizu - tenor saxophone
Ohno Ensemble - strings
Hideki Matsutake - synthesizer

External links

Tokyo Joe at Discogs (list of releases)

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)

Related artists

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