Summer Nerves

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Summer Nerves (サマー・ナーヴス, Samā Nāvusu) is an album which recorded so called "Martial arts (格闘技, kakutougi) session" between Jazz fusion musicians and Japanese rock musicians, lead by Ryuichi Sakamoto at the time of the formation of Yellow Magic Orchestra.^[1] "Martial arts (格闘技, kakutougi) session" of this album is regarded as a prototype of Kazumi Watanabe's "Kylyn session".^[2]

Background[]

Although CBS Sony proposed an original plan of one Bossanova album, Sakamoto didn't accept it and conversely proposed to challenge Reggae, and this album was created as the achievement.

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Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Ryuichi Sakamoto (except where noted).

Personnel[]

• Producer, Arranged By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Keyboards – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Backing Vocals – Eve (track: 2), Akiko Yano (track: 3), Tatsuro Yamashita (tracks: 5 and 7),  [ja] (track: 7)
• Saxophone – Mabumi Yamaguchi (tracks: 1)
• Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe as Abdullah The "Busher" (tracks: 3, 7), Kenji Omura (tracks: 3, 7),  [ja] (tracks: 4, 5), Shigeru Suzuki (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6)
• Bass – Ray Ohara (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 7)
• Drums – Yukihiro Takahashi
• Percussion – Motoya Hamaguchi (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6), Pecker (tracks: 3, 5, 7)
• Engineer – Yuichi Maejima*
• Associate Engineer – Mikio Takamatsu
• Recording Co-ordinator – Akira Ikuta
• Mastered By – Eiji Taniguchi
• Director – Shinichi Hashimoto
• Design – Mitsuru Yamada
• Illustration – Shigenari Ohnishi
• Photography By – Youhei Nagasaka

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