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EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London Gijón 2008

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Recorded
  
15 & 19 June 2008

Release date
  
10 December 2008

Artist
  
Yellow Magic Orchestra

Label
  
Avex Trax

EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London + Gijón 2008 httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaencc9LON

Released
  
December 10, 2008 (2008-12-10)

Venue
  
Meltdown festival on the Royal Festival Hall, London Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijón, Asturias

Producer
  
Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi

Genres
  
Synth-pop, Ambient music, Jazz fusion

Similar
  
Yellow Magic Orchestra albums, Synth-pop albums

EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London + Gijón 2008 is a live album compilation by Yellow Magic Orchestra. It collects two live double-disc YMO albums, LONDONYMO - Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London 15/6 08 and GIJÓNYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in Gijón 19/6 08 (and also comes with a tour T-shirt). It is performed in the style that the group built up as Sketch Show and as HASYMO. Unlike all other YMO live albums, these only have three songs from YMO albums (one from BGM, one from Naughty Boys and one from Service, as well as a song that YMO performed live but was not included in any of their albums). Most of the songs played are Sketch Show/HASYMO material (three songs from Audio Sponge, four from Loophole and the "Rescue / Rydeen 79/07" & "The City of Light / Tokyo Town Pages" singles), as well as songs from the individual members' solo careers (one from Hosono's Philharmony and one song each from Sakamoto's B-2 Unit, Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia and Chasm albums). Two tracks are performed in the way they were on the "Tribute to Haruomi Hosono" album (Hosono's "Sports Men" and Sketch Show's "Turn Turn"). Both albums are very similar, with the main distinction between them being GIJÓNYMO having its songs on a different order, less songs, and "Riot in Lagos" being performed differently.

Contents

Personnel

  • Haruomi Hosono - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals, Production
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - Keyboards, Vocals, Production, Mixing
  • Yukihiro Takahashi - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Production
  • Christian Fennesz - Guitar, Electronics
  • Ren Takada - Steel guitar, Electronics
  • Tomohiko Gondo - Computer Operation, Euphonium
  • Adam Brown - Recording
  • Fernando Aponte - Mixing
  • Shigeo "MT" Miyamoto - Mastering
  • Shoko Ise - Visuals
  • Rama Lee - Photography
  • Giles Dunn - Art Direction, Graphic Design, T-shirt Design
  • Jens Janson - Graphic Design
  • Songs

    1I-Shen Den-Shin5:04
    2Sportsmen4:28
    3Fly Me To The River4:59

    References

    EUYMO – Yellow Magic Orchestra Live in London + Gijón 2008 Wikipedia