(LP)Yasushi Ide Presents Lonesome Echo Strings/PURPLE NOON

(LP)Yasushi Ide Presents Lonesome Echo Strings/PURPLE NOON

Recorded in Tokyo, New York, Nashville, and Kingston.
Yasushi Ide's second album, released in 1998, is now available on LP for the first time!

The CD became a hot topic both in Japan and overseas at the time, and was released worldwide through WEA France.
Yasushi Ide Presents Lonesome Echo Strings As the name suggests, it features a large string ensemble with downtempo rhythms, vocals by Yukihiro Takahashi, Monday Michiru, Tony Joe White, and Clementine. It also features performances by Al Cooper, Yasuaki Shimizu, Nana Vazconcelos, Kazufumi Kodama, and Robbie Shakespeare. It's a masterpiece album with so many amazing guests that it's impossible to list them all.

The album cover is designed by Geoff McFetridge.

Yasushi Ide's second album, released in 1998, which was recorded after traveling around the world to Tokyo, New York, Nashville, and Kingston, will be available on LP for the first time!

At the time, the CD was released worldwide through WEA France.

Yasushi Ide Presents Lonesome Echo Strings As the name implies, the album features large-format strings, downtempo rhythms, with vocals by Yukihiro Takahashi, Monday Michiru, Tony Joe White, and Clementine, and the band was joined by Al Kooper, Yasuaki Shimizu, Naná Vasconcelos, Kazufumi Kodama, Robbie Shakespeare, and others. This is a masterpiece album with too many gorgeous guests to mention. The album cover is by Jeff McFetridge.


◇ Tracklist
SIDE A
1. FRESH
2. THE GREAT SILENT SONG OF YOUR EYES
3. TATIANA NO NAMIDA
4. PLEIN SOLEIL
SIDE B
1. SPIRITUAL SERENADE
2. JEALOUS GUY
3. A CERTAIN PEACE
4. SOMEDAY