Akira Wada With Friends – American Romance
Label: | Humming Bird (2) – 28HB-2 |
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Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
Country: | Japan |
Released: | |
Genre: | Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul |
Style: | AOR, Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
Tracklist
| A1 | Now And Forever | 4:56 | |
| A2 | Raven's Song | 5:24 | |
| A3 | A Matter Of Trust | 5:02 | |
| A4 | Twice In A Lifetime | 7:06 | |
| B1 | Thin White Line | 1:14 | |
| B2 | Tomorrow's Promise | 6:46 | |
| B3 | Miracles Take Longer | 4:23 | |
| B4 | Love Changes | 4:28 | |
| B5 | City Life, City Love | 5:31 |
Companies, etc.
- Made By – Humming Bird Corporation
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Humming Bird Corporation
- Distributed By – Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
- Recorded At – Mediabum Studio
- Recorded At – Sound Design Studio, Tokyo
Credits
- Alto Saxophone – Toshiyuki Honda
- Arranged By, Keyboards – Jun Fukamachi
- Bass, Vocals – Mike Dunn (7)
- Design [Album] – Chocolate (21)
- Directed By – Kazuo Hoshino, Kazuyoshi Kake
- Drums – Shoji Fujii
- Drums [Sonor Drum] – Jun Aoyama
- Engineer [Assistant] – Yoshinari Tamura
- Engineer, Mixed By – Kouji Suzuki*
- Guitar – Akira Wada
- Management [Album] – Kikuo Hirano
- Percussion – Tatsuji Yokoyama
- Photography By – Akio Sasaki (2), Miharu Yoshino
- Producer – Keisuke Aso
- Saxophone [Horn Section] – Jake H. Concepcion
- Trombone [Horn Section] – Eiji Arai
- Trumpet [Horn Section] – Shin Kazuhara*
- Vocals – Mike Dunn (7)
Notes
Special Thanks to Harlequin Enterprises Limited Japan, Casey Rankin.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A - Label): 28HB-2-A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B - Label): 28HB-2-B
- Price Code (Retail): ¥2,800
- Rights Society: JASRAC
Other Versions (2)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission | American Romance (Cassette, Album) | Humming Bird (2) | 28HT-2 | Japan | 1984 | ||
New Submission | American Romance (CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered) | Warner Music Japan | WQCQ-569 | Japan | 2014 |
Recommendations
Reviews
Jun Fukamachi on Keyboards, Toshiyuki Honda and Jake H. Concepcion on Saxophone, Mike Dunn on Vocals and of course Akira Wada on Guitar. My first thoughts reading the line-up, WOW!
Akira Wada. Guitarist born in Tokyo 50s. Starting off in the fusion legend Prism and collaborating often with summer jazz master Naoya Matsuoka and working on almost 100 fusin albums. Cementing his fame with picking up a solo career in the 80s.
In 1984, locking up in Hummingbird studio with all the mentioned big names. Creating a serios of 3 albums which mood is beyond legendary. Unfortunately the third one titled "American Romance no 2" was never released.
"American Romance" is the perfect Yach Fusion album there is. Strong guitar sections, anywhere you put the stylus. Great vocals. Catchy melodies. And a great artwork which paints clearly all the atmoshphere of the album.
Release
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