• 2nd album

    “SOUNDTRACK FOR D-BROS”

    • at Tim&Asako’s house, London

    A series of “HOTEL BUTTERFLY” that pictured an imaginary hotel, suites for stories told in calendar or cup&saucer, soundtrack for the movie “Brown Morsels of Desire”… all are created in collaboration with D-BROS, a product design project. (2008)

    A sound story Hotel Butterfly
    1 Hotel Butterfly
    2 Maître d’ hôtel
    3 Ballet N°2 de “Tablecloth”
    4 Siesta
    5 Sunday
    6 Ainsi s’écoule le temps passé a l’hôtel
    7 Chanson du papillon

    La suite de “Calendar”
    8 BROOCH
    9 a stroll into the depth of magical land
    10 gigue “petite fleur” pour hautbois et fâgot

    La suite de “Cup & Saucer”
    11 La valse
    12 Le ripple (Gymnopédie N°1)
    13 romance “du mot arcaïque” pour hautbois et fâgot

    La suite de “Brown Morsels of Desire”
    14 Le Rag pour “Chess”
    15 “L’interlude”
    16 La valse pour “Couple”
    17 “Le finale”
    18 La fermata mosaica

    Compose*, arrange and music direction: Umitaro ABE
    *Except for [7] Chanson du papillon (Andre Campra), [
12] Gymnopédie N°1 (Erik Satie) 

    Musicians:
    – piano, accordion, keybord, toypiano, violin [3], vibraphone, percussion etc.: Umitaro Abe
    – oboe:Keisuke Honda [7,10,13,18]

    – fagotto: Sayaka Nakata [7,10,13,18]
    – first violin: Kumiko Kasugai [7,11,18]
    
- second violin: Rie Kodera [7,11,18]
    – 
viola: Motoki Maruyama [7,11,18]
    – cello: Tetsuya Osawa [7,11,18]
    – 
contrabass: Kazuhiro Tanabe [7,18]
    – vocal: Thomas Antonietti [7]
    – 
clarinet: Kosuke Matsunobu [5]
    
- unari-bo: Eric Nagy [12]
    
- malmark handbells: Mao Yamazaki [12]
    
- tap: PORI [11]
    – sound design: Eric Nagy [1,4,5]

    *[12] was originaliy produced by Mao Yamazaki for dormy inn project.

    Art direction: Ryosuke Uehara, Yoshie Watanabe