Summer Nerves

Summer Nerves
Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released	June 21, 1979 (1979-06-21)
Genre	Jazz fusion Synthpop Contemporary classical
Label	Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Producer	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology
Thousand Knives (1978) Summer Nerves (1979) B-2 Unit (1980)

Summer Nerves (サマー・ナーヴス, Summer Navusu) is Ryuichi Sakamoto's second solo studio album.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ryuichi Sakamoto (except where noted)

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Summer Nerves" (Akiko Yano)	4:10
2.	"You're Friend To Me" (Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers)	5:02
3.	"Sleep On My Baby" (Akiko Yano)	5:10
4.	"Theme For "Kakutougi"" (Yukihiro Takahashi & Aki Ikuta)	6:17
5.	"Gonna Go To I Colony"	4:40
6.	"Time Trip" (Kazumi Yasui)	4:15
7.	"Sweet Illusion"	6:30
8.	"Neuronian Network" (Haruomi Hosono)	4:03

Personnel

• Backing Vocals – Akiko Yano (tracks: 3)
• Bass – Ray Ohara (tracks: 1 to 4, 6, 7)
• Design – Mitsuru Yamada
• Drums – Yukihiro Takahashi
• Engineer – Yuichi Maejima*
• Associate Engineer – Mikio Takamatsu
• Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe (tracks: 3, 7), Kenji Omura (tracks: 3, 7), Masaki Matsubara (tracks: 4, 5), Shigeru Suzuki (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6)
• Illustration – Shigenari Ohnishi
• Keyboards – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Recording Co-ordinator – Akira Ikuta
• Mastered By – Eiji Taniguchi
• Director – Shinichi Hashimoto
• Percussion – Motoya Hamaguchi (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6), Pecker (tracks: 3, 5, 7)
• Photography By – Youhei Nagasaka
• Producer, Arranged By – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Saxophone – Mabumi Yamaguchi (tracks: 1)