arrangers: []
barcode: '4988005189141'
catalog: POCH-1604
categories:
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category: Artist Discography
classification: Original Work
composers: []
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  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Friends
    track_length: '3:53'
  - names:
      English: Sunday
    track_length: '4:34'
  - names:
      English: Asian Dream Song
    track_length: '5:31'
  - names:
      English: Angel Springs
    track_length: '3:14'
  - names:
      English: Kids Return
    track_length: '4:43'
  - names:
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    track_length: '5:02'
  - names:
      English: Highlander
    track_length: '4:38'
  - names:
      English: White Night
    track_length: '3:58'
  - names:
      English: Les Aventuriers
    track_length: '4:36'
  - names:
      English: The Wind of Life
    track_length: '4:45'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/42
  names:
    en: PolyGram K.K.
    ja: ポリグラム株式会社
    ja-latn: PolyGram K.K.
  role: distributor
link: album/24755
lyricists: []
media_format: CD
meta:
  added_date: 2011-03-17T14:55
  edited_date: 2023-12-27T08:01
  fetched_date: 2026-06-06T04:25
  freedb: 3
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 6630
name: PIANO STORIES II The Wind of Life / Joe Hisaishi
names:
  en: PIANO STORIES II The Wind of Life / Joe Hisaishi
  ja: ピアノ・ストーリーズ II ザ・ウインド・オブ・ライフ / 久石 譲
  ja-latn: PIANO STORIES II The Wind of Life / Joe Hisaishi
notes: 'All Songs Composed & Arranged by Joe Hisaishi

  Track 01

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Oboe: Daisuke Mogi

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 02

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Guitar: Masayoshi Furukawa

  Horn: Hiroyuki Minami, Syuntaro Matsuda

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 03

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 04

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 05

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Strings: Yuichiro Goto String Quartet

    Violin: Yuichiro Goto, Motoko Fujiie

    Viola: Hijiri Kuwano

    Cello: Masaki Horisawa

  Track 06

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Track 07

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Oboe, Cor Anglais: Daisuke Mogi

  Flute: Takashi Asahi

  Horn: Hiroyuki Minami, Syuntaro Matsuda

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 08

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Electrofonic Violin: Toshihiro Nakanishi

  Strings: Pan Strings

  Track 09

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Soprano Sax: Hidefumi Toki

  Strings: Yuichiro Goto String Quartet, Pan Strings

    Violin: Yuichiro Goto, Motoko Fujiie

    Viola: Hijiri Kuwano

    Cello: Masaki Horisawa

  Track 10

  Piano: Joe Hisaishi

  Strings Conductor: Joe Hisaishi

  <Pan Strings>

  Violin:

    Pan In Rin, Akira Miyauchi, Gensei Nakayama, Hidenori Mishima, Hiroshi Koizumi

    Kazuhiko Urabe, Kou Miyauchi, Masao Kawabata, Takao Ochiai, Tatsuo Kotagawa

    Yasutaka Watanabe, Yoichiro Kobayashi, Yoshihisa Tamano, Yoshinori Tada, Yuko
  Fujii

  Viola:

    Katsuhiko Toyama, Mayumi Matsuda, Michimasa Chiwata Nobuo Takeda, Syuzo Ide

    Tamio Suzuki, Tomoko Fukumoto, Yoshinao Higashi

  Cello:

    Masaaki Shigematsu, Masashi Abe, Mayumi Tachibana, Minoru Takeda, Tomio Yajima

    Toshiki Fujisawa, Yutaka Ozawa

  Contrabass: Buzen Matsumoto, Kazuki Chiba

  Produced by Eiichi Fujimoto & Joe Hisaishi

  Executive Producer:

    Ichiro Asatsuma (FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC Inc.), Ikuzo Orita (Polydor K.K.), Mamoru Fujisawa
  (Wonder City Inc.)

  Supervisor: Akira Sasajima (FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC Inc.), Nobumasa Uchida (Polydor K.K.)

  Recording Engineered by Masayoshi Okawa, Yasuo Morimoto (Crescente Studio), Suminobu
  Hamada (Wonder Station)

  Mixed by Shin-ichi Tanaka (Superb)

  Mastered by Masaki Kato (Sunrise Studio)

  Assistant Engineered by:

    Aya Inoue (Wonder Station), Masayuki Oka (Victor Studio)

    Seiji Sekine (Victor Studio), Yoshimitsu Kubota (Sound City)

  Recorded at Wonder Station, Victor Studio, Sound City

  Piano Technician: Masanori Hanaoka (YAMAHA), Tetsujiro Honma

  Piano Supplied: Wonder Station (STEINWAY D274), YAMAHA (YAMAHA CFIII-S)

  Management: Yukio Yamashita (Wonder City Inc.), Toru Takigawa (Wonder City Inc.)

  A&R: Tadataka Watanabe (Polydor K.K.)

  Art Direction & Design: Hisashi Tenmyoya

  Photography: Shinji Hosono (Star Shot)

  Stylist: Hiyori Nakamura

  Make up: Kazuhiko Yonezawa

  Special Thanks to: Satoshi Ikeda, OFFICE KITANO Inc., OFFICE KEN Co., Ltd.'
organizations:
- &id002
  link: org/33
  names:
    en: Polydor K.K.
    ja: ポリドール株式会社
    ja-latn: Polydor K.K.
  role: publisher
- *id001
performers: []
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publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related: []
release_date: '1996-10-25'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: JPY
  price: 3000.0
reprints:
- catalog: PRO-002
  link: album/57751
  note: Taiwanese, Bootleg printing, 1996
stores: []
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votes: 0
