Metaphorical Music

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Metaphorical Music is Nujabes' first solo album. It offers a combination of hip hop and jazz, and features artists like Shing02 (known for "Battlecry" off the Samurai Champloo soundtrack), Substantial, Five Deez, and Cise Starr (of CYNE). Despite the fact that the album has contributing vocals from several artists, it is roughly classified as an instrumental hip hop album.

Metaphorical Music received universal acclaim from fans of Nujabes and critics.

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Blessing It (Remix)" (featuring Substantial & Pase Rock)	Nujabes	3:23
2.	"Horn In The Middle"	Nujabes	4:08
3.	"Lady Brown" (featuring Cise Starr)	Nujabes	3:18
4.	"Kumomi"	Nujabes	3:53
5.	"Highs 2 Lows" (featuring Cise Starr)	Nujabes	4:38
6.	"Beat Laments The World"	Nujabes	4:22
7.	"Letter From Yokosuka"	Uyama Hiroto	3:10
8.	"Think Different" (featuring Substantial)	Nujabes	3:17
9.	"A Day By Atmosphere Supreme"	Nujabes	3:59
10.	"Next View" (featuring Uyama Hiroto)	Nujabes	4:35
11.	"Latitude (Remix)" (featuring Five Deez)	Nujabes	3:56
12.	"F.I.L.O." (featuring Shing02)	Nujabes	3:31
13.	"Summer Gypsy"	Nujabes	4:19
14.	"The Final View"	Nujabes	3:35
15.	"Peaceland"	Nujabes	8:19

Sample credits:

• "Blessing It (Remix)" contains a sample of "Save Our Children" from the album Save Our Children by Pharoah Sanders
• "Horn in the Middle" contains a sample of "Joshua" from the album Seven Steps to Heaven by Miles Davis
• "Lady Brown" contains a sample of "The Shade of the Mango Tree" by Luiz Bonfá
• "Beat Laments the World" contains a sample from Kip Hanrahan's "Make Love 2" and "Blessing It"
• "Think Different" contains a sample of "Live For Life (Vivre Pour Vivre)" from the soundtrack of Live for Life by Francis Lai
• "A Day by Atmosphere Supreme" contains a sample of "September Fifteenth (Dedicated to Bill Evans)" from the album As Falls Wichita, so Falls Wichita Falls by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
• "Latitude (Remix)" contains a sample of "Clouds" by Gigi Masin
• "F.I.L.O." contains a sample of "Deixa" by Baden Powell, played by Toquinho on "O Violao de Toquinho"
• "The Final View" contains a sample of "Love Theme From 'Spartacus'" from the album Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef

External links

• Metaphorical Music on last.fm