All Music Composed, Arranged and Produced by Yoko Kanno Voice of Masatsugu : Issey Takabashi Voice of Naotora : Ko Shibasaki (Track 8) * Ko Shibasaki appears courtesy of Colourful Records, a division of JVCKENWOOD Victor Entertainment Corp. Strings : Kaeko Mukoyama Strings (Concertmaster : Masahiro Morita) Strings : Koichiro Muroya Strings Strings : Wataru Mukai with friends orchestra Cello Solo: Kaeko Mukoyama Flute : Junichiro Taku Oboe : Kanami Araki Clarinet : Hidehito Naka Contra Fagotto : Masamichi Sasazaki Horn : Hitoshi Imai, Nobuaki Fukukawa, Otohiko Fujita, Naoki Ishiyama, Hiroshi Kigawa, Kazuko Nomiyam, Hirofumi Wada, Shunsuke Kimura, Atsushi Doyama Trumpet : Tomonori Sato Tomoyuki Hasegawa, Moe Matsuyama Trombone : Hikaru Koga, Koh Aoki Bass Trombone : Ryota Fujii Tuba : Shin Ogino Harp : Risako Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Asakawa Percussion : Hideki Ikegami Voice & Acoustic Guitar : Masayoshi Furukawa Chorus : The Little Singers of Tokyo Youth Choir Ryuteki : Akinori Inaba Synthesizer Manipulator : Keishi Urata Synthesizer Programming : Yasushi Mohri, Yosuke Sugimoto Piano & Celesta,Keyboards: Yoko Kanno Conducted by : Yoko Kanno Recording & Mixing Engineer : Tetsuya Hasue Recording & Mixing Engineer : Masashi Yabuhara Assistant Engineers : Yoshiharu Moriyama, Hiroki Soshi Studio : NHK CR-506, 509, 604 Studio NHK Publishing UDAGAWA Studio Supervisor : Shinsuke Hosokawa (Ryuunji Temple) Copyist : Ichiro Sasaki Mastering Engineer : Koji C. Suzuki (Sony Music Studios Tokyo) Recording & Musician Coordinator : Noriko Sekiya (Face Music) Music Production : Kazuki Nishi (Meow on the Bridge Inc.) Special Thanks : STAY MUSIC, OFFICE INTENZIO, Solid Forse, Nicolas "NICO" Farmakalidis(Neilaproductions) Art Direction & Design : Aya Segi (NHK) Design : Sayuri Shiozaki (Sony Music Communications Inc.) Product Coordination : Tomohiro Ijiri (Sony Music Communications Inc.) A&R/Product Manager : Tetsushi Koyama (Sony Music Japan International) Sales Promotion : Mirei Teramura (Sony Music Marketing Inc.) Executive producers : Hiroshi Ueda (NHK Publishing, Inc.) Nobu Nakatake (Sony Music Japan International) Tetsuya Shiroki (Sony Music Japan International) Special Thanks to MY Promotion Inc., Yu Yamashita (STARDUST PROMOTION, INC.)