music by Taro Iwashiro

index
#01~#18 Welcome To Another Heaven
#19 gravity on the edge of the world
(featuring Ryuichi and Sugzio of LUNA SEA)

for Movie #1, #4, #5, #8, #9, #13, #14, #15, #17
for TV #2, #3, #6, #7, #10, #11, #12, #16, #18

All Tracks Composed, Orchestrated and Conducted by Taro Iwashiro
except gravity on the edge of the world
composed by Taro Iwashiro and LUNA SEA

All Tracks Arranged and Sound Produced by SextASy Room (Taro Iwashiro and Hideyuki Fukasawa)


Recording Engineers: Masashi Goto, Masanori Tamura, Keiko Yoda, Yasushi Shota

Mixing Engineers: Masashi Goto, Hideyuki Fukasawa

Assistant Engineers: Nobushige Mashiko, Yasuyuki Shirai (Sound City Studio),
Hisae Yahagi (Studio Z'd), Yoshinori Isowaki (Yamaha Epicurus Studio), Atsushi Matsui, Ryu Kato (Bunkamura Studio)

Assistant to Taro Iwashiro: Yoko Sekizawa
Assistant to Hideyuki Fukasawa: H.Bassy

Recorded at Yamaha Epicurus Studio, Sound City Studio, Studio Z'd, Bunkamura Studio

Mixed at Bunkamura Studio

Recorded and Mixed from November in 1999 to March 2000

Mastered by Hiroshi Kawasaki at JVC AOYAMA Victor Studio on March 21 in 2000

Recording Co-ordinated by Takahiko Kodaka (HORIPRO INC.), Sei Sato (Z's Inc.)

Musicians Co-ordinated by Hiroshi Yamada (Shin-Shitsu Inc.)

Management for Taro Iwashiro: HORIPRO INC.
Management for Hideyuki Fukasawa: Z's inc.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: OSAMU KUBOTA (Another Heaven Company)

A&R: Takahiko Kodaka (HORIPRO INC.), Satoshi Hasegawa (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Producers: Yasuhide Yamashita (Another Heaven Company), Kyoji Katoh (Universal Victor, Inc.)


Executive Producers: Shinya Kawai (Another Heaven Company), Yoshitaka Hori (HORIPRO INC.), Kumiko Himeno (TV Asahi Music Inc.), Hajime Imamura (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Promotion Staff: Keiichi Hayakawa (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Photography: Kazuo Takahashi, Kenji Takeuchi

Original Photo Licensed by TV Asahi Another Heaven Company

Art Direction & Design: Emi Yoshida

Design Coordinator: Tatsuo Satoh (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Marketing Promoter: Ryuichiro Ohnuma (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Asian Aera Promoter: Tomoko Itoki (Universal Victor, Inc.)

Musicians
Taro Iwashiro (Acoustic and Midi Piano, Keyboards, Vibraphone)
Hideyuki Fukasawa (Synthesizer Programming, Keyboards)
with
Makoto Matsushita (E.Guitar),
Masayuki Chiyo (Ac.Guitar),
Toshihiro Nakanishi (Solo Violin),
Pecker (Latin Percussions),
Kenji Takamizu (E.Fretless and Upright Basses),
Osamu Koike (Alto Sax.),
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp),
Marie Ohishi (Orchestral Percussions),
Mitsuru Souma, Yukihiko Nishizawa (Flutes),
Masakazu Ishibashi (Oboe),
Kimio Yamane (Clarinet),
Otohiko Fujita, Yuji Kobayashi (Horns),
Kojiro Nakagawa, Taro Kiyooka, Junko Yamashiro (Trombones),
Yasuhito Sugiyama (Tuba)
Eri Kawai (Female Vocal),
and
Joe Strings Orchestra, Masatsugu Shinozaki Strings Orchestra

featuring on track 19
Ryuichi (Voice), Sugizo (Guitar)

SextASy Room are Taro Iwashiro and Hideyuki Fukasawa



Taro Thanx You

thanx to
toshiyuki iizumi, masanori tamura, akiko takakuwa, yoshimitsu honda, mika-barker-tanaka, akemi sudo, yuko ohta, kana ishiguro, amy tago, shigeyuki onodera, nobuo okano, koji kuroda, mirei ishii, ricky and yui kato, nobuo okano, koji and megumi okada, ryusei and atsuko mizuno, sumihisa and ikuko fujishima, toshifumi saito, maya saishouji, tomoko noguchi, takanobu miyoshi, yoshiko kashimura, wakato kawai, kazuhiro miyahara, ritsuko miyajima, naomi hanamura, hisami tanigawa,
mayumi arai, mariko miura, marina showay, sachiko hashimoto, karen tani, kenji somura, miki azuma, minako ajiki, nobuano takeuchi, yoshitaka fujimura, tomoko kiyomatsu,
and the staff of bunkamura studio, the staff of hori pro inc.,  the staff of shin-shitsu inc.,
the staff of nhk printex inc., the staff of sound city studio, all my drinkin' friend in pad'dock, hidehiro and mana watanabe

also to the staff of "Another Heaven" production team, ryuichi and sugzio of LUNA SEA

special thanx to Hiroshi Koizumi (Universal Victor, Inc.), Tatsuya Oguchi, Takuji Ushiyama & Takashi Tajima (GAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC), Hideshi Miyajima & Hiroyuki Saito (Shochiku), Eiichi Tanaka & Shogo Hirata (ACCEL AD)

warmest thanx to my parents

greatest thanx to george iida

endless thanx to hiromi-chang

extra special thanks to you for listening to this cd album


This work is dedicated to the profound love and time that I'm always sharing with my deepest love

TARO IWASHIRO, Spring in 2000