Summer Nerves

Summer Nerves
Summer Nerves
Studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Released	June 21, 1979
Genre	Jazz fusion; Synthpop; Contemporary classical
Label	Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Producer	Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology

Summer Nerves (サマー・ナーヴス, Samā Nāvusu) is an album which recorded so called "Martial arts (格闘技, kakutougi) session" between Jazz fusion musicians and Japanese rock musicians, lead by Ryuichi Sakamoto at the time of the formation of Yellow Magic Orchestra. Although CBS Sony proposed an original plan of one Bossanova album, Sakamoto didn't accept it and conversely proposed to challenge Reggae, and this album was crated as the achevement.^[1]

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 (track: 3), Tatsuro Yamashita and Minako Yoshida [ja] (track: 5)
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 as Abdullah The "Busher" (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)

References

^ ^a ^b "Summer Nerves – Sony Music". Retrieved June 27, 2020.

[sony-1] "Summer Nerves – Sony Music". Retrieved June 27, 2020.

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