''Tokyo Joe'' is a 1978 album by

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and guitarist

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. It is a compilation of tracks from the albums ''

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'' (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" (

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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,

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

, *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 for ...

- cymbal *Shigeharu Mukai - trombone *

Shuichi Murakami (January 1, 1951 – March 9, 2021) was a Japanese jazz drummer and session musician. Career Murakami was born in Nishinomiya. He first learned to play French horn, but switched to classical percussion as a teenager before settling on the ...

- drums *

Toshiyuki Honda Toshiyuki Honda (born April 9, 1957, Tokyo) 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 Geor ...

- saxophones *

Yukihiro Takahashi Yukihiro Takahashi (高橋幸宏 ''Takahashi Yukihiro'', born June 6, 1952) is a Japanese musician, singer, record producer and actor, who is best known internationally as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the fo ...

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

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- tenor saxophone *Ohno Ensemble - strings *

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- synthesizer

External links

* 1978 compilation albums Ryuichi Sakamoto albums {{electronic-album-stub