World Citizen is an EP by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

 and David Sylvian

David Sylvian

David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...

. It was released in 2003 in Japan, and in 2004 in UK. The two editions have different track lists and different covers. The EP was created as part of a project called Chain Music instigated by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The album was praised by The Guardian

The Guardian

The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...

: "Its skewed pop recalls Bowie's Hunky Dory, and pinpoints the human cost of superpower recklessness, prompting a standing ovation for pop music's most mercurial refusenik-turned-prodigal son".

Track listing

All lyrics written by David Sylvian.

Japanese edition:

1. "World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed) (Short Version)" 3:47
2. "World Citizen (Short Version)" 4:10
3. "World Citizen (I Won't Be Disappointed) (Long Version)" 6:19
4. "World Citizen (Long Version)" 6:48
5. "World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda
   Ryoji Ikeda
   Ryoji Ikeda is a Japanese sound artist who lives and works in Paris. Ikeda's music is concerned primarily with sound in a variety of "raw" states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing...
   
    Remix)" 5:01

UK edition:

1. "World Citizen (Short Version)"
2. "World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Short Version)"
3. "World Citizen (Long Version)"
4. "World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed (Long Version)"
5. "World Citizen (Ryoji Ikeda Remix)"

Personnel

• David Sylvian
  David Sylvian
  David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
  
   - vocals, art direction, photography
• Ryuichi Sakamoto
  Ryuichi Sakamoto
  After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
  
   - keyboards
• Amedeo Pace - guitars
• Skúli Sverrisson
  Skúli Sverrisson
  Skúli Sverrisson is an Icelandic composer and bassist residing in New York City.Over the past two decades, bass guitarist-composer Skuli Sverrisson has worked with a veritable who’s who of the experimental world, from free jazz legends to music icons Skúli Sverrisson (born 23 October 1966) is an...
  
   - bass
• Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen
  Steve Jansen is an English drummer, percussionist, singer and composer. He was educated at Catford Boys' School, Catford, South East London, where he failed academically, leaving at 16....
  
   - drums

Additional personnel

UK edition

• Yuka Fujii - art direction , design (for Osmosis)
• Atsushi Fukui - cover artwork
• Special thanks to: Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Julia Chavez is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.-Personal life:Chavez was born January 21, 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and raised in Marietta, Georgia...
  
  , Richard Chadwick, Adrian Molloy and Arto Lindsay
  Arto Lindsay
  Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
  
  .

External links

• World Citizen lyrics