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Ki-Oku
1996 studio album by Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ki-Oku (記憶, Kioku) is a collaborative studio album by Japanese jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and Japanese hip hop producer DJ Krush. It was released on August 8, 1996 in Japan by Sony Music Entertainment.[1] The album was issued in Europe by the R&S Records imprint Apollo on January 26, 1998,[2][3] and in the United States by Instinct Records on March 23, 1999.[4]
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Composition
Ki-Oku consists of 10 proper tracks and three short interludes. It features a cover of "Sun Is Shining", which was originally written and performed by Bob Marley.
Critical reception
Rick Anderson of AllMusic said that Ki-Oku is primarily an album of "smooth-groove jazz" music, but "reveals more with repeated listens; if it sounds too easy at first, listen again – there's lots of interesting stuff going on beneath what sometimes sounds like a merely pleasant surface."[5] In 2015, Fact placed Ki-Oku at number 25 on its list of the best trip hop albums of all time.[9]
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Track listing
All tracks are written by Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush, except where noted.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[10]
Musicians
- Toshinori Kondo – acoustic trumpet, electric trumpet, arrangement
- DJ Krush – beats, programming, scratching, arrangement
Production
- Toshinori Kondo – production
- DJ Krush – production
- Noriko Asano – executive production
- Shuichi Ikebuchi – mixing, recording
- Masahito Kitayama – executive production
- Koichi "Oppenheimer" Matsuki – mixing on "Sun Is Shining"
- Yuki Noda – executive production
- Masayo Takise – mastering
- Naohiko Yamada – associate production
Design
- Mikio Hasui – photography
- Miki Terada – art direction, design
- Masakazu Yamamoto – art direction, design
- Shigeru Yamaoka – art direction, design
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