01. river (kawa)

music by Johan Hedin
lyrics by ayako
arranged by Taka (TAMTAM)
co-produced by Taka & HaLo

Danny Thompson : double bass
Alan Clark : hammond organ
Maria Kalaniemi : accordion
Kate St. John : oboe
Assane Diabaye : sabar
Samba Diabaye : sabar
Hideyuki "kegani" Nozawa : wind chime
Mari : glockenspiel, balafon
Taka : acoustic guitar

recorded at Duke Joint Studio Tokyo Japan October & December 2000
recorded by Satoru Fujii
overdubbing at Livingston Studios & Sound Suite Studio London UK November 2000
overdubbing engineered by Satoru Fujii and Richard Preston
assisted by Nick Coplowe (Livingston Studios)

On Johan Hedin's solo album "Angel Archipelago", there is a song "staden" which I really liked. Johan plays a Swedish folk instrument called the nyckelharpa (key fiddle), and he let me write some lyrics for this song. The original title means 'city'. We had been saying by e-mail that we wanted to do something together since we met when he first came to Tokyo and this was how it came to be. He is pleased that his once instrumental song has now got lyrics and African percussion.