Heartbeat (Ryuichi Sakamoto album) explained

Heartbeat
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Cover:	Heartbeat sakamoto.jpg
Released:	October 21, 1991
Genre:	Synthpop, experimental rock
Label:	Virgin Records America
Producer:	Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (11, 12), Satoshi Tomiie (track 1)
Prev Title:	The Sheltering Sky
Prev Year:	1990
Next Title:	Little Buddha
Next Year:	1994

Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records. 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 David Sylvian-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".

Personnel

Performers

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
• Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4)
• Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8)
• Satoshi Tomiie – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
• Magic Dick – harmonica
• Marco Prince – vocals (3)
• John Lurie – sax (4)
• Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4)
• Arto Lindsay – vocals (5)
• Houria Aïchi – vocals (7)
• Youssou N'Dour – vocals (9)
• Bill Frisell – guitar (11, 12)
• Ingrid Chavez – vocals (11, 12)
• John Cage – voice (11)
• David Sylvian – 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

Chart (1992)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[1]	94

Notes and References

1. 242.