Album:『12 Vox - The Way to Be Ourselves／トゥウェルブ・ヴォックス』2001/08/22
Genre: New Age/World
Tracks: 01-13
00:00 A Missing Literalness from Them
03:34 Now the Spirit Speaks
09:02 Grá Buan～Everlasting Love～
14:49 Gabriel's Last Dance
20:26 The Elegy for Strings Orchestra No.1
26:32 The Elegy for Strings Orchestra No.2
32:08 The Elegy for Strings Orchestra No.3
37:22 Transa～Crossing～
43:10 Now the Spirit Speaks (Maximus Mix)
47:59 Never Again 💙💙💙
55:12 A Fable of the Unknown Soldier and Princess Chapter I
57:29 A Fable of the Unknown Soldier and Princess Chapter II
1:00:02 To Be Ourselves
All tracks composed by Taro Iwashiro (IT'S054)
Except track 01 composed by Taro Iwashiro and Davy Spillane
Track 01
Produced by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro and Davy Spillane
Arranged by Sextasy Room and Nobuhiko Nakayama
Performanced by
Davy Spillane : Uilleann pipes, Low whistle
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh : Poetry writing and reading
Lokua Kanza* : Male vocal
Eri Kawai : Female vocal
Kiyotsugu Amano : Ac. guitar
Nobuhiko Nakayama : Keyboards
Taro : Ac. piano
Gavyn Wright : Orchestra leader
London Session Orchestra conducted by Taro
*Lokua Kanza avec l'aimable autorisation de : "KANISA Records"
Track 02
Produced and Arranged by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro
Words by Chris Mosdell
Performanced by
Lokua Kanza* : Male lead vocal
Olyza Zamati : Female lead vocal
Lokua Kanza, Olyza Zamati, Mami Ishizuka, Taro : Background vocals
Makoto Matsushita : E. guitar
Monica Kahumburu : Translation and narration
*Lokua Kanza avec l'aimable autorisation de : "KANISA Records"
Track 03
Produced and Arranged by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro
Words by Aoife Ní Fhearraigh
Performanced by
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh : Female lead vocal
Christelle Adams, Mami Ishizuka, Eri Kawai : Background vocals
Makoto Matsushita : E. guitar
Taro : Wind Chime
Gavyn Wright : Orchestra leader
London Session Orchestra conducted by Taro
Track 04
Produced and Arranged by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro
Performanced by
Davy Spillane : Uilleann pipes, Low whistle
The Duke Quartet : Strings quartet
Kiyotsugu Amano : Ac. guitar
Stephen Henderson : Additional percussions
Taro : Ac. piano, keyboards
Track 05 - 07
Produced and composed by Taro
Performanced by
Gavyn Wright : Orchestra leader
London Session Orchestra conducted by Taro
Track 08
Produced by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro
Arranged by Sextasy Room and Nobuhiko Nakayama
Words by Aoife Ní Fhearraigh
Performanced by
Aoife Ní Fhearraigh : Female lead and background vocals
Davy Spillane : Low whistle
Kiyotsugu Amano : Ac. guitar
Track 09
Produced and Arranged by Sextasy Room
Composed by Taro
Words by Chris Mosdell
Performanced by
Lokua Kanza* : Male lead vocal
Lokua Kanza, Olyza Zamati, Mami Ishizuka, Taro : Background vocals
Makoto -arco- Matsushita : E. guitar
Kiyotsugu Amano : Ac. guitar
*Lokua Kanza avec l'aimable autorisation de : "KANISA Records"
Track 10
Produced and Arranged by Sextasy Room
Composed and words by Taro
Performanced by
Eri Kawai : Female lead vocal
Taro : Ac. piano
Gavyn Wright : Orchestra leader
London Session Orchestra conducted by Taro
Track 11 & 12
Produced and composed by Taro
Performanced by
The Duke Quartet : Strings quartet
Hide : Keyboards
Track 13
Produced and composed by Taro
Performanced by
Skaila Kanga : Harp
Gavyn Wright : Orchestra leader
London Session Orchestra conducted by Taro
Album produced by Sextasy Room and Kei Mori (Sony Music Japan International)
Sextasy Room are Taro Iwashiro and Hide Fukusawa
Recording Engineers : Masashi Goto, Mike-Ross Trevor, Nicolas Duport, Hide Fukusawa
Mixing Engineer : Masashi Goto
Assistant Engineers : Ryu Kawashima (Whitfield Studio), Hisae Yahagi (Studio Z'd), Nobushige Mashiko (Sound City Studio), Yoshiaki Kowada (Bunkamora Recording Studio)
Recorded at Whitfield Studio in London, Studio Mega in Paris / Sound City Studio, Studio Z'd, Bunkamora Recording Studio, Sextasy Room Studio in Tokyo
Recorded from December in 2000 to April in 2001
Mixed at Bunkamora Recording Studio on April in 2001
Mastered by Koji Suzuki at Sony Music Studios Tokyo on April in 2001
A&R : Takahiko Kodaka and Takahiro Hibi for Hori Pro Inc.
Assistant to Taro : Yoko Sekizawa for T-Tone Inc.
Management Office : Hori Pro Inc.
Technical Supporting for Sextasy Room Studio : Kazuhiro Miyahara
Co-ordination for Davy Spillane & Aoife Ní Fhearraigh by Yuko Fukunaga
Score Preparation : NHK Printex Inc.
Cover Design by hLam Milano
Art Directed by Yasuhiro Okuya & Haruka Ishii (Highway Graphics)
Promotion saff : Nao Hattori (Sony Music Japan International)
Executive Produced by Shigeru Murakami (Sony Music Japan International)
This album is dedicated to the precious future on the way to be ourselves.～T.
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