''Heartbeat'' is the ninth solo studio album by

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto i ...

, released in 1991 by

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. A second version of the album was released in the United States and Europe in 1992, which replaced the original version of "Tainai Kalki" with the

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-featuring version, " Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb", as well as English versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara", and bonus song "Cloud #9".

Track listing

Personnel

Performers *

– keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8) * Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4) * Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8) *

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– percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8) *

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– harmonica * Marco Prince – vocals (3) *

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– sax (4) * Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4) *

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– vocals (5) * Houria Aichi – vocals (7) *

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– vocals (9) *

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– guitar (11, 12) *

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– vocals (11, 12) * John Cage – voice (11) *

– 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)

Charts

References

1991 albums Ryuichi Sakamoto albums Albums produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto {{1990s-electronic-album-stub