Takagi Masakatsu – COIEDA

Beautiful set with Audio CD + DVD

Very beautiful CD+DVD set by Takagi Masakatsu.
Takagi, very well known for his visual work during the Fire In The Forest tour 2003 and 2004, made an astonishing package, featuring a slipcase holding an audio CD and a DVD both in digipack.
All artwork is done by Saeko Takagi (BUILDING).

Tracklist Audio CD:

1. pia flies
2. new flat
3. midnight
4. cruz
5. exit/delete (featuring David Sylvian)
6. COIEDA
7. O.P.R. (featuring Toma Itoko)
8. dogma
9. girls
10. private drawing
11. cuba
12. birldland #3
13. change of seasons
14. opfern
15. primo (featuring Toma Itoko)

All sounds by Takagi Masakatsu except 5: vocal by David Sylvian
Additional info of audio:
track 2: field recording in Titowan
track 9, 12, 15: originally recorded during the live performance at SPIRAL Hall on 26th October 2003
track 11: inspired by Spangle call Lilli Line “Lilli Disco”

Mastering: Kotaro Kojima (FLAIR)
Creative direction: John C Jay, Somiko Sato
A&R direction/producer: Bruce D Ikeda
Project supervisor: Kei Sakuragi
Executive producers: Ken Hosokawa, Arto Hampartsoumian

Tracklist DVD:

1. birdland #3
2. girls
3. maggie’s trip
4. private drawing
5. new flat
6. aura
7. primo
   bonus video Exit/Delete_first_sight

All images and sounds by Takagi Masakatsu (2003)
Bonus video Exit/Delete_first_sight (2004) produced in collaboration with W+K Tokyo Lab. Directed by +cruz/sun @ W+K Tokyo Lab with oceanmonsters. Sound by Takagi Masakatsu.

David Sylvian related: The bonus video features the instrumental version of the Exit/Delete track.

Additional information of the DVD:
Track 1 birdland#3 and track 2 girls are made at David Sylvian’s studio and partly used during the Fire In The Forest tour 2003-2004. The piano is recorded during the live performance at SPIRAL Hall, Tokyo (2003.10.26).

track 6 aura and track 7 primo are partly used during the Fire In The Forest tour 2003-2004.

Released on W+K Tokyo Lab (http://www.wktokyolab.com).

In the ‘thank you’ liner notes, Takagi thanks many people including: Steve Jansen, Jude, Gobi, David Sylvian’s family, Yuka Fujii and the crew of the David Sylvian tour.

In the liner notes of the DVD you can find the following:
“Deepest thanks to David Sylvian for freeing me into another world.”