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Haruomi Hosono Monad Box (Monad Sightseeing Music)
2002 4x CD, Box Set
Experimental
Ambient
Soundtrack

Main image
Monad Records, Imperial Records
a&r [reissue] Takehiro Kase
art direction [paradise view] Yukimasa Okumura
artwork [batik art, paradise view] Shikamitsu Kawai
calligraphy [mercuric dance] Tadayoshi Arai
coordinator [coincidental music] Kenichi Makimura
coordinator [the endless talking] Shuhei Hosokawa
design [box set] Takashi Okada
design [mercuric dance, the endless talking, coincidental music] Taki Ono
design [paradise view] Yukimasa Okumura
tracks 2-01 to 4-11 edited by Hidemi Hattori
tracks 3-01 to 4-11 edited by [with] Hiroyuki Kikuchi
tracks 2-01 to 2-09 edited by [with] Minoru Sawada
tracks 4-01 to 4-11 engineer Hidemi Hattori
tracks 4-01 to 4-11 engineer [with] Hiroyuki Kikuchi
illustration [the endless talking] Taki Ono
liner notes [booklet] Masakazu Kitanaka
liner notes [mercuric dance, the endless talking] Haruomi Hosono
liner notes [mercuric dance] 柿坂神酒之祐
liner notes [paradise view] Yukimasa Okumura
liner notes [the endless talking] Shuhei Hosokawa
management [coincidental music] Hiromi Wada
tracks 4-01 to 4-11 mixed by Haruomi Hosono
tracks 1-01 to 1-09 mixed by Yasuhiko Terada
tracks 2-01 to 2-09 mixed by Yasuhiko Terada
tracks 1-01 to 1-09 mixed by [assisted by] Hiroyuki Kikuchi
music by Haruomi Hosono
tracks 1-01 to 1-09 percussion Yujin Harada
tracks 1-01 to 1-11 percussion Yujin Harada
photography by [coincidental music] Kaoru Ijima
photography by [mercuric dance] Kazuyoshi Miyoshi
tracks 4-02, 4-03, 4-08 piano, soloist Miharu Koshi
producer Haruomi Hosono
tracks 2-01 to 4-11 producer [with] Friends Of Earth
tracks 1-01 to 1-05 recorded by Fumio Miyashita
tracks 2-01 to 3-13 recorded by Shinichi Tanaka
tracks 1-06 to 1-09 recorded by Yasuhiko Terada
reissue producer [general supervision] Sohichiro Suzuki
remastered by Sohichiro Suzuki
remastered by [mastering engineer] Kotaro Kojima
stylist [coincidental music] Yoichi Muragaki
supervised by [planning supervision, reissue] Kazuo Dobashi
tracks 4-01 to 4-11 technician Yuzo Toda
tracks 4-01 to 4-11 technician [assistant] Hirokazu Hasegawa
tracks 1-01 to 1-09 technician [equipments] Masanobu Tsuchiya
tracks 1-01 to 1-09 technician [equipments] Yuzo Toda
Record Company Teichiku Entertainment, Inc.
Manufactured By Teichiku Entertainment, Inc.
Distributed By Teichiku Entertainment, Inc.
Recorded At Sedic Studio
Recorded At Tamco Studio
Recorded At Sound City Studio
Recorded At Freedom Studio
Recorded At LDK Studio
Recorded At Teichiku Suginami Studio
Recorded At ALFA Studio A
Recorded At Sony Roppongi Studio
Recorded At Biwa Studio
Mixed At Freedom Studio
Mixed At Sony Roppongi Studio
Mixed At Teichiku Suginami Studio
Remastered At Flair Mastering Works
Remastered At Victor Aoyama Studio
Designed At Zubai Studio
Numbered clamshell box with obi, housing four albums in mini-LP style card sleeves each with a fold-out insert. A twelve page booklet with extensive liner notes is also included.

Note that the box design incorporates intentional faux shelf wear to the corners and edges.

Individual catalog numbers and order of discs as presented in the box indicate Coincidental Music was originally intended to be the first disc.

Translated album descriptions on back of obi:
Mercuric Dance - Amakawa Togakushi ~ A monument to tourist music born in a sacred place
Paradise View - Soundtrack from Okinawa New Cinema
The Endless Talking - Sounds of Nature Genoa installation participating works, May 1985
Coincidental Music - Haruomi Hosono's commercial collection, '82~'85
Barcode: 4 988004 085048
Rights Society: JASRAC
Matrix / Runout: TECN-58772-1 1T V (CD1)
Matrix / Runout: TECN-58773-1 1W V (CD2)
Matrix / Runout: TECN-58774-1 1W V (CD3)
Matrix / Runout: TECN-58771-1 1T V (CD4)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L236 (CDs 1, 4)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L244 (CDs 2, 3)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 4011 (CDs 1 to 4)