Konishi Yasuharu launches solo project Pizzicato One
March 31, 2011
Musician Konishi Yasuharu, once a member of the now defunct Shibuya-kei group Pizzicato Five, has announced a new solo project called Pizzicato One. The news was revealed on Thursday, March 31, exactly 10 years after Pizzicato Five disbanded.
Konishi will release his first album as Pizzicato One on May 25, titled “11 no Totemo Kanashii Uta.” According to the project’s website, the album is also being called “One and Ten Very Sad Songs.” It consists of covers of English songs, each featuring vocals by various internationally-known artists from around the world.
The planned tracklist is as follows:
■One (Harry Nilsson) feat. Rosey
■Imagine (John Lennon) feat. Marlena Shaw
■A little bit of soap (Bart Berns) feat. Nicole Willis
■I wanna be loved by you (Herbert Stothart – Harry Ruby) feat. Wouter Hamel
■Bang bang (Sonny Bono) feat. Maia Hirasawa
■A day in the life of a fool (Luiz Bonfa) feat. Gwyneth Herbert / If you went away (Marcos Valle) feat. Marcos Valle
■Maybe tomorrow (Quincy Jones – Marilyn Bergman) feat. Christopher Smith
■Suicide is painless (Mike Altman – Johnny Mandel) feat. Roger Nichols & the Small Circle of Friends
■If we lived on the top of a mountain (Les Reed – Barry Mason) feat. Eric Matthews
■A long hard climb (Ron Davies) feat. Roy Phillips (The Peddlers)
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