TREE, FORESTS tribute to RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Goro Ito, Paula Morelenbaum, Jaques Morelenbaum

• 1 Happy End 04:30
• 2 Tango (Versão em Português) 04:53
• 3 Rain 03:27
• 4 Bibo no Aozora 05:30
• 5 Fragmentos 03:22
• 6 M.A.Y. in the backyard 04:48
• 7 Ongaku 03:38
• 8 Fotografia 04:14
• 9 Sayonara 04:24
• 10 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (re-modeled by Goro Ito) 04:36
• Total Runtime 43:22

Info for TREE, FORESTS tribute to RYUICHI SAKAMOTO

A tribute album by composer, Bossa nova guitarist, and music producer Goro Ito, featuring his arrangements of songs by his close friend Ryuichi Sakamoto. Co-leading the album with Ito are cellist Jaques Morelenbaum and vocalist Paula Morelenbaum. The album centers on a selection of Sakamoto's works from various eras, interwoven with a classic by Antonio Carlos Jobim and the new song "Fragmentos" by Goro Ito and Paula Morelenbaum. Supporting musicians include Aya Ito, Koichi Sato, Keita Ogawa, and Mami Kakudo, all of whom accompanied the tour. Haruomi Hosono joins on bass for the track "Happy End", a song also covered by Yellow Magic Orchestra. As a bonus track, the album includes "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence re-modeled by Goro Ito," originally released on the 2010 Goro Ito-produced compilation album "Christmas Songs".

Goro Ito, guitars, sound programming
Paula Morelenbaum, vocals (tracks 2, 5, 7-9)
Jaques Morelenbaum, cello
Koichi Sato, piano
Keita Ogawa, drums, percussion
Mami Kakudo, marimba, vibraphone, percussion, vocals (tracks 1, 3-6, 8, 9)
Aya Ito, violin (tracks 1-7, 9)
Gaku Sakamoto, flute, alto flute (tracks 1, 8)
Haruomi Hosono, electric bass (track 1)

Produced by Goro Ito

Goro Ito
a composer, arranger , guitarist and producer, has been active as a solo artist “MOOSE HILL” and also as member of a bossa-nova duo “naomi & goro”

Along with releasing his own albums and performing at home and abroad, he has written music for movies etc. While pursuing his own music with profound taste of Bossa Nova, he has played in genre-straddling style of music such as classic and rock, etc. Besides his own work he has collaborated with various musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Taskahashi. For singer and actress Tomoyo Harada, he has produced many songs and albums. He has worked with Takashi Hiraide, a poet who won the Best Translated Book Award by his poetry collection “For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut” in USA.

He also has maintained close musical relations with Brazilian musicians such as Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum. With them, Jorge Helder, Rafael Barataand other excellent Brazilian musicians, he has produced the album “Rendez-vous in Tokyo” recorded in Rio and Tokyo.

The album has won the “Disco de Quro da Musica popular Brasileila” best album award in 2014.

Tomoyo Harada(Japanese famous actress and singer) sings two songs in Moose Hill’s second album “desert house”(2006). He wrote the soundtrack to the movie, “To Pray for Snow”. This movie won 4 prizes including Best Director & Best Male Actor at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival.

The movie is directed by Kichitaro Negishi and features Yusuke Iseya, Kouichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi & Kazue Fukiishi. On August 8th, he produced two CDs, Penguin Cafe Orchestra

tribute album and Penguin Cafe Orchestra Japanese best album. They were released from “commons”, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s label. This tribute CD includes Ryuichi Sakamoto, YukihiroTakahashi, Steve Jansen, Hiroshi Takano, Masakatsu Takagi, and so on. He wrote the inserted song and soundtrack for two short movies, “identify”and”metamorphosis”, directed by Masahiko Nagasawa for Fuji television’s campaign event. ...

This album contains no booklet.