All Tracks Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by Taro Iwashiro
All Tracks Arranged & Sound Produced by SextASy Room

Featuring Janet Kay (Vocal & Lyrics & Additional Vocal Arrangements for Tracks 1~3, 7 & 11)
Duet with Omar Lyefook on Track 2, 7 (Omar appears courtesy of Naïve)


SextASy Room are Taro Iwashiro & Hideyuki Fukasawa

Recording Engineer: Masashi Goto, Yasushi Shiota, Brio Tailaferro, Ben Kape
Mixing Engineer: Masashi Goto

Assistant Engineers: Mr. Yasuhiro and Mrs. Noriko Tsurusaki (Sound City Studio)
Assistant to Taro Iwashiro: Yoko Sekizawa
Assistant to Hideyuki Fukasawa: H.Bassy
Recording Assistant Staff of Sound City Studio: Akihiko Endo, Gen Komori, Masatoshi Sato, Nobuyuki Tanaka, Shouta Ichikawa, Naoki Morita

Recorded at Sound City Studio, Studio Z'd in Tokyo, Wessex Studio in London
Mixed at Sound City Studio
Recorded and Mixed on May 1999
Mastered by Tetsuya Naito at Sony Shinanomachi Studio on June 4th, 1999
Recording Co-Ordinated by Takahiko Kodaka in Tokyo, Hideaki Takezawa, Yoko Okuma of KGL in London

Management for Taro Iwashiro: Hori Pro Inc.
Management for Hideyuki Fukasawa: Z's Inc.

A&R: Kei Mori (Sony Music Entertainment), Noriko Ashizawa (Sony Music Entertainment)

Artist Relations: Yuka Imanishi (Sony Music Entertainment)
Associate Producer: Takahiko Kodaka (Hori Pro)
Executive Producers: Michiko Oka (Sony Music Entertainment), Shigeru Murakami (Sony Music Entertainment), Sachiko Tsuchiya (Sony Music Entertainment), Yoshitaka Hori (Hori Pro)

Backcover Photo: Midori Tsukagoshi
Art Direction: Tetsuma Maki
Design: Takashi Tsukazaki


Musicians
Taro Iwashiro (Ac.Piano & Keyboards)
Hideyuki Fukasawa (Synthesizer Programming & Keyboards)
with
Kiyotsugu Amano (Ac.Guitar)
Makoto Matsushita (E.Guitar)
Pecker, Yuki Sugawara, Marie Ohishi, Tamao Fujii (Percussions)
Akio Suzuki (Sop. & Alto Sax)
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp)
Rie Akagi (Flute)
Masakazu Ishibashi (Oboe)
Kimio Yamane (Clarinet)
Nobuo Yagi (Harmonica)
Otohiko Fujita, Mitsuo Matsuura (Horns)
Ichiyou Kishimoto (Fiddle)
Randy Hope-Taylor (E.Bass)
Chris Ballin (Backing Male Vocal)
MCD (Rap)

U.K Brass Session
Dominic Glover and Gerard Presencer (Trp)
Michael Smith (A. Sax)
Mike Innes (Trb)
and
Koike Strings Session


taro and hideyuki would like to thank: mrs.takezawa for cooking "kamonabe" (it's marvellous !) for us., michi, manami masuda, midori tsukagoshi, shelley... take good care of your health of body and mind., the staff of printex inc., the staff of sound city studio, the staff of shin-shitsu inc., our drinkin' friends in pad'dock, mami ishizuka, sachiko-marisol-hashimoto, shino tsuru, kana-chang, reiko-sang, catarina, all our friends

also to the all staff of ntv "la dolce vita" production team
chief director: Nobuo Mizuta
teleplay writer: Yasuhiro Koshimizu
sound effect: Masuaki Tsukada
producers: Nobuo Mizuta, Kenji Ikeda, Toshio Akabane executive producer: Atsushi Sato

warmest thanks to our family for always giving us a lot of love so much., hiroko-chang for the lovely cake that you brought us at midnight., kan...what a charming dog!

endless thanks to janet and her family for feeling the wonderful "magic of harmony" together.

special thanks to you for listening to this CD album.