Aki Onda Beautiful Contradiction
All Access, AACD-006, Japan, 1998

 

1. Chrysanthemum (4:14)
2. Red Light (2:30)
3. In Windungen (6:18)
4. Cattleya (7:31)
5. Kumur (2:01)
6. Rosemary (5:22)
7. Petal (3:36)
8. Compubra (3:14)
9. Do You Remember? (5:43)
10. Midnight Radio (2:06)
11. Beauty (1:40)
12. It's Gone (6:24)

 

Composed by Aki Onda (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12). Composed by Aki Onda and Blixa Bargeld / Words By Blixa Bargeld (3). Composed and words by Saadet Türköz (5). Composed by Jyoji Sawada (7). Composed by Aki Onda, Hosomi Sakana and Linda Sharrock / Words by Kim Grassley and Linda Sharrock (9). Composed by Simon Fisher Turner / Words by Blixa Bargeld (11).

 

Produced by Aki Onda. Recorded by Aki Onda at The Kitchen, Tokyo, PK at Worldwide International Studios, London. Additional recording by Dave Hunt at Dave Hunt Sound Studios, London, Takehiko Kamada at The Kitchen, Tokyo, Jean-Jacques Birgé at Studio GRRR, Paris, Michael Cyr at Sorcerer Sound, New York. Mixed by PK at Worldwide International Studios, London, Aki Onda at The Kitchen, Tokyo, Takehiko.

 

Aki Onda: samples, programming, cassette recorder (all tracks, except 5, 11) / Bernard Vitet: flugelhorn (2) / Noël Akchoté: electric guitar (2, 3, 11) / Blixa Bargeld: voice (3, 11) / Simon Fisher Turner: electric guitar, voice (4, 11) / Saadet Türköz: voice (5) / Linda Sharrock: voice (9) / Steven Bernstein: trumpet (9) / Rob Burger: accordion (9) / Ben Perowsky: snare drum, cymbals (3) / Jyoji Sawada: contrabass, keyboards, percussion, string arrangement (3, 4, 8) / Naoko Kobara: violin, viola (3) / Momo: synthesizer (3, 4, 6) / Mecken: electric bass (4) / Yoichi Okabe: grassharp, snare drum, paper box, percussion (6, 7) / Takehiko Kamada: grassharp (6) / Kazutoki Umezu: clarinet, bass clarinet (7) / Yuka Kido: flute, alto flute (7) / Tsuneo Imahori: electric guitar (8) / Sakana Hosomi: samples, programming (9) / Izumi Misawa: Kalimba (9) / Namy Niwa: voice (6) / Syunya Mori: keyboards (12)