Akira's Music:Wa (1996)
Produced by Akira Takasaki
* Except "Urban Nights" produced by Masanori Sasaji
for HEART Music
Mixed by Michael Wagener
for Double Trouble Production
at SCREAM Studio, Los Angeles
Assisted by Doug Trantow
* Exept "RESPIRATOR" and "STRANGLE HEAD"
Mixed by Dog Trantow
at SCREAM Studio
Recorded by Allen Isaacs for MIC at IRc2 Studio, Tokyo
Assisted by Hirnori "Detch" Satoh
Recorded by Yasuyuki Moriyama for HEART Music
at TAKE ONE Studio, Tokyo
Assisted by Yasushi Shiota
Recorded by Doug Trantow at SCREAM Studio, Los Angeles
Assisted by Stephen Fitzmaurice
Mastered by Stephen Marcussn
at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles
Guitar, Bass, Drum Tech, Sound Master: Akira Ohmachi
Teruyuki Iga
"RESPIRATOR", "STRANGLE HEAD": Just Akira Playing, No Keyboard
"A CHANCE OCCURRENCE": No Keyboard
Cover Art Painted by Rogen Ebihara for Harmonia
Artist Photograph by Hiroyuki Yoshihama, William Hames
Art Direction by Kaori Inukai for PRART
Design by Shinji Nagaoka for PRART
US Coordination: Thelma Leemans for Warner Music International
A&R: Nobby Okumura for eastwest Japan
Supervisor: Sam Nagashima for eastwest Japan
Akira would like to thanks...
Masanori / Takako / Hiroyuki and Mikiko Takasaki / Yoko *J*N Takasaki /
Toshiko and Kenji Tanaka / Terumitsu & Sachiko Susuki / Masato Ohki /
Takamitsu Motomura / Mr & Mrs. Kondo / Hirotsugo Honma /
Masaki Yamada and his family / Naoto Shibata / Taiji & Jyuri Sawada /
Noriko and Nao Kobayashi / Hisae Hagiwara / Genya Kuwajima /
Masayoshi Yamashita / Albert Molinaro (guitars'r'us) / Masaumi Sasaki /
Mr. Naho Shibuya (ESP) / Mr. Takashi Yamamoto, Kei Nagase (young guitar) /
Yukinobu Hasegawa and Rockin'f / Dadadadan / Saripa-kun / Oakwood Toluka Lake /
Herts Rent-A-Car / Everyone at Nihon Electro Harmonix /
Tootsie (Office Intenzio) / Kozue Okada (AMO) / Kazuo Sumida / Roger Mayer /
MI Japan Studio / Ryuzo "Jr." Kosugi / Takashi Ishihara and Atsuki Kitamura
(EWJ) / Everyone at EWJ Promotion Dept.
Management: JAP GOLD, Inc. /
#402 2-2-13 Tenmabashi,
Kita-ku, Osaka 530, Japan
Paul Guilbert and Pat Torpy appear courtesy of Atlantic Records
