portrait of summer / hitoshi watanabe / ポートレイト・オブ・サマー / 渡辺等 / portrait of summer / hitoshi watanabe

all selections composed, arranged, performed, recorded & produced by hitoshi watanabe for edition GASPARD, inc.
mixed by kazuya miyazaki
assisted by tetsuya abe
mastered by yuka koizumi for Orange, Co., Ltd.

recorded at mnop studio, tokyo
mixed at studio walk, tokyo
mastered at orange mastering studio, tokyo

hitoshi watanabe played the following instruments: mandolin, mandola, mandocello, electric mandolin,
psaltery, ukulele, bouzouki, acoustic guitars (12 steel strings, 6 & 8 gut strings), cello, contrabass,
electric basses (4 & 6 strings, fleted, 4 strings fletless, 5 strings upright), sitar bass.

cover: takao ono "it was lost"
iron, oil tempera on poplar plywood.
175.6x117.0cm, 1995.
private collection, tokyo.
photo., tadahisa sakurai / skydoor (excepting back & inner cover photo).

a&r: aki kitazawa for Hipland music Co.
artist management: keiko tomiyama
executive producer: hisashi chosokabe

special thanks to reiko kurosawa, katsutoshi kotani, naoki tashiro, paul shiki, brent averill,
michimori ohta, hiroko watanabe, noriko fujiwara, yoshio shimada, ryo kawaguchi, heavy moon.

We would like to thank AKI for without his supports this project would not have existed.