Osamu Kitajima - Face To Face (1986)

Osamu Kitajima (喜多嶋 修), also known by the pseudonym Justin Heathcliff, is a Japanese musician, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

Title cut from the '85 album recorded in California by composer and producer Osamu Kitajima, whose ancestor was Tomomi Iwakura, who was active from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period (his daughter is the actress Mai Kitajima, and his cousin is Yuzo Kayama)! RICHARD EVANS participates in the arrangement with both sides of English poetry! SOUL~DISCO sound featuring black female vocals in an oriental sound using the koto!

A brilliant jazz-funk album infused with Osamu Kitajima's mesmerizing new age sounds, backed by several skilled musicians and featuring the vocals of Mindy Sterling (Tracks 1,2,3,6), Sylvia St. James (Tracks 4,5,8), and Melanie Burke (Track 10).