Heartbeat

Studio album by

Released

October 21, 1991

Genre

Synthpop, experimental rock

Label

Virgin Records America

Producer

Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (11, 12), Satoshi Tomiie (track 1)

Ryuichi Sakamoto chronology

The Sheltering Sky
(1990)

Heartbeat
(1991)

Little Buddha
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Heartbeat is the ninth solo studio album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, released in 1991 by Virgin Records. A second version of the album was released in the United States and Europe in 1992, which replaced the original version of "Tainai Kalki" with the David Sylvian-featuring version, "Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb", as well as English versions of "High Tide" and "Sayonara", and bonus song "Cloud #9".

Track listing

Japanese version
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen	4:46
2.	"Rap the World"	Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry	4:53
3.	"Triste"	Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince	4:23
4.	"Lulu"	Sakamoto	4:19
5.	"High Tide" (sung in Japanese)	Sakamoto	4:47
6.	"Song Lines"	Sakamoto	2:56
7.	"Nuages"	(Traditional)	2:15
8.	"Sayonara" (sung in Japanese)	Sakamoto	5:24
9.	"Borom Gal"	Sakamoto	3:59
10.	"Epilogue"	Sakamoto	3:42
11.	"Tainai Kaiki II"	Sakamoto, Arto Lindsay	5:20
Total length:			46:43

International version
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Heartbeat"	Ryuichi Sakamoto, Satoshi Tomiie, Jeffrey Cohen	4:46
2.	"Rap the World"	Sakamoto, Jungle DJ Towa Towa, Super DJ Dmitry	4:53
3.	"Triste"	Sakamoto, FFF, Marco Prince	4:23
4.	"Lulu"	Sakamoto	4:19
5.	"High Tide" (sung in English)	Sakamoto	4:47
6.	"Song Lines"	Sakamoto	2:56
7.	"Nuages"	(Traditional)	2:15
8.	"Sayonara" (sung in English)	Sakamoto	5:24
9.	"Borom Gal"	Sakamoto	3:59
10.	"Epilogue"	Sakamoto	3:42
11.	"Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) - Returning to the Womb"	Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Arto Lindsay	5:20
12.	"Cloud #9"	Sakamoto, Sylvian	5:17
Total length:			52:00

Personnel

Performers

Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards, piano, lead vocals (5, 8)
Steven Bernstein – trumpet (1, 3, 4)
Dee Dee Brave – vocals (1, 8)
Satoshi Tomiie – percussion (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Magic Dick – harmonica
Marco Prince – vocals (3)
John Lurie – sax (4)
Debra Barsha – backing vocals (4)
Arto Lindsay – vocals (5)
Houria Aïchi – vocals (7)
Youssou N'Dour – vocals (9)
Bill Frisell – guitar (11, 12)
Ingrid Chavez – vocals (11, 12)
John Cage – voice (11)
David Sylvian – vocals (11, 12)

Technical

Lolly Grodner – engineer (11, 12)
Patrick Dillett – engineer (all tracks except 12)
Yoshifumi Iio – engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Jungle DJ Towa Towa – co-producer (2)
Axel Niehaus – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Fernando Aponte – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Jim Caruana – assistant engineer (11, 12)
Koichiro Nagao – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)
Wes Naprstek – assistant engineer (all tracks except 11, 12)

Charts

Chart performance for *Heartbeat*
Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[2]	94

References

^ Hayes, Kevin. "Beauty". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 242.