Heartbeat (Ryuichi Sakamoto album)

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Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen	4:46
2.	"Rap the World"	Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry	4:53
3.	"Triste"	Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince	4:23
4.	"Lulu"	Sakamoto	4:19
5.	"High Tide"	Sakamoto	4:47
6.	"Song Lines"	Sakamoto	2:56
7.	"Nuages"	(Traditional)	2:15
8.	"Sayonara"	Sakamoto	5:24
9.	"Borom Gal"	Sakamoto	3:59
10.	"Epilogue"	Sakamoto	3:42
11.	"Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb"	Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay	5:20
12.	"Cloud #9"	Sakamoto, Sylvian	5:17

Personnel

Performers

• Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
• Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4)
• Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8)
• Satoshi Tomiie – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
• Magic Dick – harmonica
• Marco Prince – vocals (3)
• John Lurie – sax (4)
• Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4)
• Arto Lindsay – vocals (5)
• Houria Aichi – vocals (7)
• Youssou N'Dour – vocals (9)
• Bill Frisell – guitar (11, 12)
• Ingrid Chavez – vocals (11, 12)
• John Cage – voice (11)
• David Sylvian – vocals (11, 12)

Technical

• Lolly Grodner – engineer (11, 12)
• Patrick Dillett – engineer (all tracks except 12)
• Yoshifumi Iio – engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
• Jungle DJ Towa Towa – co-producer (2)
• Axel Niehaus – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
• Fernando Aponte – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
• Jim Caruana – assistant engineer (11, 12)
• Koichiro Nagao – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
• Wes Naprstek – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)