BTTB (album)

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BTTB is a 1999 piano solo and duet album by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album title is an acronym for "Back To The Basics". Two separate versions of the album were pressed, for Japanese and international markets. The International version opens with the three songs off of the ウラBTTB maxi single released in Japan as a promotional tool, while replacing a few pieces elsewhere in the album. The maxi single peaked at number four on the Japanese singles chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Opus"	4:27
2.	"Sonatine"	3:38
3.	"Intermezzo"	3:44
4.	"Lorenz and Watson"	3:57
5.	"Choral No. 1"	2:27
6.	"Choral No. 2"	2:05
7.	"Do Bacteria Sleep?"	4:18
8.	"Bachata"	8:14
9.	"Chanson"	2:23
10.	"Distant Echo"	5:53
11.	"Prelude"	4:08
12.	"Sonata"	3:31
13.	"Uetax"	0:26
14.	"Aqua"	4:29
15.	"Snake Eyes"	6:07
16.	"Tong Poo"	5:03

International version

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Energy Flow"	4:36
2.	"Put Your Hands Up"	4:51
3.	"Railroad Man"	4:42
4.	"Opus"	4:27
5.	"Sonatine"	3:38
6.	"Intermezzo"	3:44
7.	"Lorenz and Watson"	3:57
8.	"Choral No. 1"	2:27
9.	"Choral No. 2"	2:05
10.	"Bachata"	8:14
11.	"Chanson"	2:23
12.	"Prelude"	4:08
13.	"Uetax"	0:26
14.	"Aqua"	4:29
15.	"Tong Poo"	5:03
16.	"Reversing"	3:58

Personnel

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – piano

Technical

• Fernando Aponte – engineer
• Naoto Shibuya – engineer, mixing
• Masaki Sekiguchi – assistant engineer
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Hideki Nakajima – direction