Kioku is a collaborative studio album by Japanese jazz trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and Japanese hip hop producer DJ Krush. It was released on August 8, 1996 in Japan by Sony Music Entertainment.
Composition
Ki-Oku consists of 10 proper tracks and three short interludes. It features a cover of "Sun Is Shining", which was originally written and performed by
Bob Marley.
Critical reception
Rick Anderson of
AllMusic said that
Ki-Oku is primarily an album of "smooth-groove
jazz" music, but "reveals more with repeated listens; if it sounds too easy at first, listen again – there's lots of interesting stuff going on beneath what sometimes sounds like a merely pleasant surface."
In 2015,
Fact placed
Ki-Oku at number 25 on its list of the best
trip hop albums of all time.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Musicians
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Toshinori Kondo – acoustic trumpet, electric trumpet, arrangement
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DJ Krush – beats, programming, scratching, arrangement
Production
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Toshinori Kondo – record producer
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DJ Krush – production
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Noriko Asano – executive production
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Shuichi Ikebuchi – mixing, recording
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Masahito Kitayama – executive production
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Koichi "Oppenheimer" Matsuki – mixing on "Sun Is Shining"
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Yuki Noda – executive production
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Masayo Takise – mastering
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Naohiko Yamada – associate production
Design
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Mikio Hasui – photography
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Miki Terada – art director, design
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Masakazu Yamamoto – art direction, design
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Shigeru Yamaoka – art direction, design
Charts
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