EURASIAN EMPIRES / Takefumi Haketa / NHKスペシャル 文明の道 / NHK Special Bunmei no Michi

All music written by Takefumi Haketa


Acoustic Piano, Keyboards, Programming: Takefumi Haketa
Voice: Jadranka
Choir: CANTUS ANIMAE
Bass: Hitoshi Watanabe
Oud, Saz, Bouzouki, Lauto, Baglama: Koichiro Tashiro
Percussions: Marie Ohishi, Ikuo Kakehashi
Harp: Tomoyuki Asakawa
Violins: Asuka Kaneko, Haruko Yano, Yuko Ohkubo, Kaoru Kuroki, Noriyo Ohbayashi, Chie Tsunemi, Youko Hiraoka, Masami Iwai, Kuniyo Fukami, Jun Takeuchi, Kaori Takahashi, Rinko Kishi, Hiroko Yanagawa, Akiko Maruyama, Ayako Igarashi, Yu Manabe
Violas: Yoshiko Morita, Rika Morozumi, Yukiko Yoshida, Shizuko Takahashi, Yayoi Tsukamoto, Keiko Shiga
Cellos: Tsunehiro Terai, Takaya Kimura, Mari Masumoto, Ayano Kasahara, Masaaki Shigematsu, Kaori Morita
Contra Bass: Takashi Taninaka, Kazuki Chiba, Kouji Makuuchi
Trumpet: Osamu Takahashi
French Horn: Takato Saijo, Hiroshi Wada
English Horn: Keiko Narita, Satoshi Shoji
Soprano, Tenor Sax: Shigeo Fuchino
Oboe: Keiko Narita, Satoshi Shoji
Clarinet: Kimio Yamane

Hitoshi Watanabe appears courtesy of GEMMATIKA Records


Music composed and arranged by Takefumi Haketa
Sound produced by Takefumi Haketa

Recorded by Akira Fukada (NHK)
Mixed by Akira Fukada (NHK), Lyuta Mazda

Recorded at NHK 506st, 509st
Mixed at NHK 506st, 604st, DIGITAL MAGNET STUDIO

Assistant Engineer: Naoki Fujimoto, Tomohiro Izumi (NHK), Shinichi Tokumo (DIGITAL MAGNET STUDIO)

Masterd by Masao Nakazato at ONKIO HAUS


Recording coordination: Toshihiro Hachiska
Scoring: Asako Niwa
Recording assistants: Nobuyuki Ohyagi, Ken Suzuki


Artist Management: Toshihiro Hachiska, Mikoto Fujiwara (HIP LAND MUSIC)
Executive producers: Shota Sawaki, Bin Tajima (HIP LAND MUSIC)


[NHK Program Staff]
Audio Director : Junko Fukui
Audio Engineer : Akira Fukada
Art Director : Shinya Yoshida
Computer Graphics : Hiroshi Matsumoto, Soichiro Sekine
Narrators : Sanae Ueda, Shinichi Taketa
Directors : Atsushi Ogaki, Atsushi Murayama
Executive Producers : Masahiro Kikuchi, Nobuya Yamamoto

[Dreamusic Staff]
A&R : Akira Takeuchi, Hiroshi Furukawa
Creative Director : Kazuyuki Hikita
Supervisor : Yuji Takahashi


Cover Design : Takeshi Sakai (minotake+)
Program Logotype Design : Naoto Tango


Thanks: Noriko Sekiya (MUSIC LAND)
             Emi Kobayashi (Planet Arts)
             Syu Matsuhisa, Natsuko Matsumoto (NHK Enterprises 21)
             Junji Ichioka (Japan Broadcast Publishing)