Blue Marble
by Aiko Shimada
- Type: Album
- Released: 23 January 2001
- Label: Tzadik
- Country: Japan
- Length: 41:14
- Community rating: 3.34/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A record by the Japanese singer-songwriter issued in Tzadik's New Japan series. 'Blue Marble' sets Shimada's quiet, precisely enunciated singing against sparse arrangements that draw on art pop and chamber instrumentation.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, accessible, rhythmic, ballad, dance
Tracklist
- Mezame (Morning Part 1) (3:41)
- Toki Wa Sugi (4:01)
- Wakare (5:36)
- Busy Rabbit (3:26)
- Hikari (Morning Part 2) (2:13)
- Blue Marble (6:06)
- Silent (1:28)
- Song For Mark (4:33)
- Asa (Morning Part 3) (10:10)
Credits
- Aiko Shimada - primary artist, composed by, cover [cover art concept], electric guitar, lyrics by, vocals
- Hiroshi Kimura - artwork [cover art]
- Tucker Martine - bass drum, drum machine, shekere [electronic shekere]
- Mark Collins - composed by, double bass, double bass [muted double bass]
- Bill Frisell - electric guitar, loops [backwards guitar loops]
- Paul Matthew Moore - electric piano [fender rhodes], keyboards [nord lead], keyboards [key bass], toy piano, synth [arp synth], keyboards [nord bass]
- Guy Davis - performer [guchung]
- Troy Swanson - talkbox [talkbox hammond]
- Heung-Heung Chin - design
- John Zorn - executive-producer
- Kazunori Sugiyama - executive-producer [associate producer]
- Allan Tucker - mastered by
- Yuko Suda - photography by [photos]