The audience of Anna Saeki's concerts will remember - they appreciated very much the "breaking up" of her Tango and Milonga program with some songs from South East Asia.
And here we are with NEGAU. Folk songs and chansons from Japan, Corea, China, Thailand, Vietnam und Mongolia, carried into a Tango spirit with sensitivnesss and empathy. Pieces of art, somehow irrititating, tender and delicate, fragile and frisky.
1. Old Beautiful Days (Son Trinh Cong) 04:28 Prelistening: 2. Song In Green Fields (Wang Luobing) 02:46 Prelistening: Prelistening: 3. Sono Hitokoto (Jose Hernan Cibils / Anna Saeki) 03:09 4. Ye Lai Xiang (Li Jinguang) 04:21 5. Jasmin (Trad. / Anna Saeki) 03:23 6. Moon Is My Heart (Ching Chi Wong / Chia Lin Sun) 03:33 7. Dow Lom Duen (S. Te Bahnon / T. Poraparasso) 02:41 Prelistening: 8. Morning Star (James Wong) 03:37 9. Your love is mine (Miguel Velarde jr.) 04:27 10. Umi No Hate (Jose Hernan Cibils / Anna Saeki) 03:12 11. Blue Sky, White Cloud (Trad. / Anna Saeki) 04:04 12. Gwang Hwa Mun Yeong Ga (Lee Yong Hoon / Choi Joon Yong) 03:58 13. Anatatotomoni (Anna Saeki) 03:48 14. My Love (Ham Kyung Mun / Choi Joon Yong) 04:32 15. Encounter (Anna Saeki) 03:58
Total time: 56:36
Anna Saeki, vocals
Musicians: New York Recording (1,4,5,8,9,11): Hector Tito Castro (bandoneon), Maurizio Najt (piano), Mikhail Kuchuk (violin), Pedro Giraud (double bass)
Berlin Recording #1 (2,3,6,7,10,12): Jochen Carls (double bass), Andrei Sudnitsyn (violin), Bettina Harte (bandoneon), Jose Cibils (piano), Peter Reil (bandoneon), Darius Blaskiwitz (violin)
Berlin Recording #2 (13,14,15): Marie-Elsa Drelon (piano), Melanie Barth (accordion), Gennady Dessyatnyk (violin), Marc Muellbauer (double bass), Harald Kündgen (vibraphone)