''Tokyo Joe'' is a 1982 compilation album by

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Music of Japan, Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the Synthesizer, synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his ...

and guitarist

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. It includes tracks from the albums ''

Thousand Knives ''Thousand Knives'' (also known as ''Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto'') is the debut solo album by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Released in 1978, it is a mostly electronic music album, foreshadowing his work with Yellow Magic Orchestr ...

'' (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''. Originally released in Japan in 1982, the album was later re-released also in Western countries during the 1990s.

Track listing

# "Tokyo Joe" (

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) # "The End of Asia" (Ryuichi Sakamoto) # "Zai Gvang Dong Shoo Nian" (

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) # "I'll Be There" (Akiko Yano, Ryuichi Sakamoto) # "E-Day Project" (Ryuichi Sakamoto) # "Thousand Knives" (Ryuichi Sakamoto) # "The River Must Flow" (

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) # "Akasaka Moon" (Kazumi Watanabe)

Personnel

*Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, drums,

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, *Kazumi Watanabe - guitar, bass, vocals *

- keyboards, electric piano, vocals, synthesizer *Ray J. O'Hara - bass *

Haruomi Hosono , sometimes credited as Harry Hosono, is a Japanese musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is considered to be one of the most influential musicians in Japanese pop music history, credited with shaping the sound of Japanese pop f ...

- cymbal *Shigeharu Mukai - trombone *

Shuichi Murakami (January 1, 1951 – March 9, 2021) was a Japanese jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragti ...

- drums *

Toshiyuki Honda is a Japanese jazz musician and composer. Honda's father was a jazz critic, whose name was also Toshiyuki Honda. As a jazz musician, he learned flute and saxophone, and worked in the late 1970s with George Otsuka and the Burning Waves ensemble. ...

- saxophones *

Yukihiro Takahashi was a Japanese musician, singer, record producer, fashion designer, and actor, who was best known internationally as the drummer, lead vocalist, & 2nd keyboardist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band, ...

- drums, vocals *Motoya Hamaguchi - drums *Shigeya Hamaguchi - percussion *

Yasuaki Shimizu (born 9 August 1954) is a Japanese composer, saxophonist and producer. He is known for his interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach, in particular the " Cello Suites 1-6" re-arranged for and performed on tenor saxophone. Since 1981 he has comp ...

- tenor saxophone *Ohno Ensemble - strings *

Hideki Matsutake Hideki Matsutake (born August 12, 1951 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese composer, arranger, and computer programmer. He is known for his pioneering work in electronic music and particularly music programming, as the assist ...

- synthesizer

External links

* 1982 compilation albums Ryuichi Sakamoto albums {{1980s-electronic-album-stub