Hiroshi Murakami & Dancing Sphinx – Dancing Sphinx

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Label:	Showboat – 3SB-1011
Format:	Vinyl , LP, Album
Country:	Japan
Released:	1978
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Fusion

Tracklist

A1	Dancing Sphinx Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Masanori Sasaji Electric Piano, Synthesizer – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Masanori Sasaji Electric Piano, Synthesizer – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami	7:12
A2	Maya Bass – Tamio Kawabata Electric Piano – Takehiro Honda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – T. Honda*	5:07
A3	Phoebus Bass – Tsutomu Okada Electric Piano, Voice – Mikio Masuda Percussion – Tamio Kawabata Soprano Saxophone, Voice – Kosuke Mine* Voice – Masa (37) Written-By, Voice – Hiroshi Murakami Bass – Tsutomu Okada Electric Piano, Voice – Mikio Masuda Percussion – Tamio Kawabata Soprano Saxophone, Voice – Kosuke Mine* Voice – Masa (37) Written-By, Voice – Hiroshi Murakami	8:53
B1	Neptune Lady Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Masanori Sasaji Electric Piano – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Masanori Sasaji Electric Piano – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami	7:07
B2	Baby, It's Trivial Bass – Tamio Kawabata Electric Piano – Takehiro Honda Organ – Mikio Masuda Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami	6:22
B3	Deabolo Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Takehiro Honda Electric Piano, Synthesizer – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami Bass – Tsutomu Okada Clarinet – Takehiro Honda Electric Piano, Synthesizer – Mikio Masuda Soprano Saxophone – Kosuke Mine* Written-By – Hiroshi Murakami	5:09

Companies, etc.

Manufactured By – Trio Records
Recorded At – Rockwell Studio
Remixed At – Media Studio, Tokyo
Made By – Trio Electronics, Inc.

Credits

Design [Cover] – Kazuharu Nagayama
Drums – Hiroshi Murakami
Engineer – Yuhji Yamashita*
Guitar – Kiyoshi Sugimoto
Illustration [Cover] – Tamie Okuyama

Notes

Record housed in a single jacket with printed inner sleeve that has liner notes on it. Comes with obi strip.

Special thanks to :
Miss Setsuko & Miss Michiko (A lot of helps for this recording)
Mr. Hagiwara (Yamaha Co.) (Good take care of H. Murakami's drum sets)
Takehiro Honda & Kosuke Mine appears through the courtesy of Flying Disk.
Hiroshi Murakami plays Yamaha drum sets.

Recorded at Rockwell Studio, Minami Hakone (April, 1978)
Remixed at Media Studio, Tokyo (April, 1978)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Side A): Ⓑ〄 3SB 1011A 111 ⊹ S
Matrix / Runout (Side B): G 3SB 1011BⓈ 111 ⊹

Other Versions (3)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Dancing Sphinx (LP, Album, Promo)	Showboat	3SB-1011	Japan	1978
New Submission	Dancing Sphinx (CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve)	Clinck Records	CRCD5029	Japan	2011
New Submission	Dancing Sphinx (LP, Album, Repress)	Showboat	3SB-1011	Japan	Unknown

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Reviews

tintomara Jan 8, 2022
I've recently bought this fantastic album and found out the composition Maya surprisingly resembles Moilike from B So glObal album, released in 1993, which I had also used to like a lot until now.
At first I thought japanese version was secondary but after having looked at fifteen-year difference I realised that was impossible. Japanese version called Maya had been composed 15 years before Moilike!
Though credits on B So glObal cd say all the compositions belong to Jon Seagrott and Ian Staples. How can it be explained?
Published similar comment on Seagrott's youtube page and got explanations that these two tunes have nothing in common, that they are performed in different progressions, etc.

Nevertheless I am sure it's the same melody since I every next sound in Moilike due to numerous listenings for the last 25 years. Moilike is a great composition though but I don't know how to explain such a coincidence.

Just listen and compare:

https://youtu.be/b5KTJkkCXA8