Ki-Oku
Ki-Oku
1996 studio album by Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush
Ki-Oku (記憶, 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.[1] The album was issued in Europe by the R&S Records imprint Apollo on January 26, 1998,[2][3] and in the United States by Instinct Records on March 23, 1999.[4]
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.
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."[5] In 2015, Fact placed Ki-Oku at number 25 on its list of the best trip hop albums of all time.[8]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Toh-Sui" (透睡) | 4:57 | |
| 2. | "Tobira-1" (扉-1) | 0:35 | |
| 3. | "Mu-Getsu" (無月) | 6:19 | |
| 4. | "Ha-Doh" (波動) | 5:24 | |
| 5. | "Sun Is Shining" | Bob Marley | 6:52 |
| 6. | "Mu-Chu" (夢宙) | 6:28 | |
| 7. | "Tobira-2" (扉-2) | 0:45 | |
| 8. | "Fu-Yu" (浮遊) | 4:56 | |
| 9. | "Ki-Gen" (帰幻) | 4:40 | |
| 10. | "Ko-Ku" (孤空) | 5:23 | |
| 11. | "Shoh-Ka" (昇花) | 4:39 | |
| 12. | "Bu-Seki" (舞石) | 4:58 | |
| 13. | "Tobira-3" (扉-3) | 0:44 | |
| Total length: | 56:40 | ||
All tracks are written by Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush, except where noted
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[9]
Musicians
- Toshinori Kondo – acoustic trumpet, electric trumpet, arrangement
- DJ Krush – beats, programming, scratching, arrangement
Production
- Toshinori Kondo – production
- DJ Krush – production
- Noriko Asano – executive production
- Shuichi Ikebuchi – mixing, recording
- Masahito Kitayama – executive production
- Koichi "Oppenheimer" Matsuki – mixing on "Sun Is Shining"
- Yuki Noda – executive production
- Masayo Takise – mastering
- Naohiko Yamada – associate production
Design
- Mikio Hasui – photography
- Miki Terada – art direction, design
- Masakazu Yamamoto – art direction, design
- Shigeru Yamaoka – art direction, design
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums (OCC)[10] | 155 |
| UK Dance Albums (OCC)[11] | 4 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC)[12] | 12 |
- "記憶～KI-OKU～ | 近藤等則×DJ KRUSH" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- Ki-Oku (liner notes). DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo. Apollo Records. 1998. AMB 8949 CD.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - "Release". mmjp.or.jp. Archived from the original on March 1, 2000. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
- "Ki-oku". Instinct Records. Archived from the original on January 13, 2004. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
- Anderson, Rick. "Ki-Oku – DJ Krush / Toshinori Kondo". AllMusic. Retrieved June 21, 2011.
- Glaister, Dan (January 23, 1998). "DJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo: Ki-Oku (R&S)". The Guardian.
- Twells, John; Fintoni, Laurent (July 30, 2015). "The 50 best trip-hop albums of all time". Fact. Retrieved December 22, 2016.
- Ki-Oku (liner notes). Toshinori Kondo and DJ Krush. Sony Music Entertainment Japan. 1996. SRCS 8093.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - "Chart Log UK: Alex K – Kyuss". Zobbel.de. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- "Dance Albums" (PDF). Music Week. February 7, 1998. p. 21. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
- "Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 15, 2017.