art direction, photography Shiro Takatani design Takuya Minami engineer [studio assistant] Jason Staniulis engineer [studio assistant] Matthew Sim executive-producer Max Matsuura legal [coordination] Evan Balmer mastered by Bob Ludwig mixed by Conrad Hensel music by Ryuichi Sakamoto other [production assistant], administrator Mai Yuda producer Ryuichi Sakamoto producer [art producer] Yoko Takatani producer [associate] Norika Sora production manager Akiko Kato production manager, engineer [assistant] Alec Fellman public relations Satoshi Nakashiro recorded by [recording engineer] Alex Venguer recorded by [recording engineer] Ryan Kelly recorded by [recording engineer] Seigen Ono supervised by [executive supervisor label] Shinji Hayashi supervised by [label] Hisaou Wakaizumi supervised by [label] Toshiki Shida technician [piano] Kaz Tsujio Manufactured By Avex Music Creative Inc. Copyright (c) Kab Inc. Copyright (c) Paul Bowles Copyright (c) Marina A. Tarkovskaya Recorded At The Studio (4) Recorded At Germano Studios Recorded At Bastyr University Chapel Recorded At The Museum of Arts and Design Recorded At Kyoto University Mixed At Germano Studios Mastered At Gateway Mastering Released in a digipack, with full-colour wrap around cover.
The speeches in Track 8 are overlayed translations of a passage from Paul Bowles' novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949):
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. Barcode: 4 988064 863143 Mastering SID Code: IFPI L154 Mould SID Code: IFPI 446J Matrix / Runout: RZCM-86314 MT 461 Price Code: ¥3,500 (定価) Rights Society: JRC