On November 21, 1989, “Virgin” label released “Beauty”, the eighth Ryuichi Sakamoto studio album. It was recorded in 1989, at “Take One Studio”, “Zero Studio”, “Onkio Haus”, “Sound Inn Studio” in Tokyo, “Platinum Island Recording Studio”, “Right Tracks Studio”, “Bear Tracks”, “The Power Station” in New York City, “Complex” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Personnel:
- Ryuichi Sakamoto– vocals, mixing, engineering, arranger, keyboards, piano
- Arto Lindsay– vocals, rap
- Brian Wilson– vocals
- Kazumi Tamaki, Misako Koja – vocals, shamisen
- Nicky Holland – vocals
- Yoriko Ganeko – vocals, shamisen, castanets
- Youssou N’Dour, Laura Shaheen, Robert Wyatt, Jill Jones– vocals
- Alex Brown, Angel Rogers, Anita Sherman – backing vocals
- Kirk Crumpler – keyboards, programmer
- Carlos Lomas, Bun Itakura, Dali Kimoko-N’Dala, Robbie Robertson– guitar
- Eddie Martinez– guitar, soloist
- Pino Palladino, Mark Johnson, Larry White – bass
- Sly Dunbar– drums
- Pandit Dinesh– tabla
- Naná Vasconcelos, Paco Yé, Seidou “Baba” Outtara, Sibiri Outtara – percussion
- Magatie Fall – talking drum
- Milton Cardona– shekere
- Shankar– double violin
- Sang Won Park– zither
- Sham Guibbory – string section leader
- Jiang Jian Huo – erhu
- Greg Calbi, Jason Corsaro – engineer, mixing
- Ikuo Honma, Kinji Yoshino, Mark Lynette, Naoto Shibuya, Roger Moutenot, Yutaka Arai – engineer
- Carmen Rizzo– engineer, mixing, programmer
- Dan Gellert, Douglas Rose, Gary Solomon, John Herman, Junichi Yamazaki , Michael White, Seiichi Yoritomi, Tetsuya Ishizuka, Yuuki Mizutani, Darin Prindle, Kevin Casey, Sylvia Massy – engineer assistant
- Masaya Nishida, Jeff Bova, Bill Seery – programming
- Yuji Suguyama – programming, computer operation
- Shingo Take – sampling
Track listing:
All tracks by Ryuchi Sakamoto.
- Calling from Tokyo
- A Rose
- Asadoya Yunta
- Futique
- Amore
- We Love You
- Diabaram
- A Pile of Time
- Romance
- Chinsagu No Hana
- Adagio
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