街路樹

I'd been in N.Y.C. for a whole year since June, 1986, wandered about or stayed in various places of midtown, downtown, and uptown. I'd found calm passion in the life of Spanish living on the 196st. that may be consist in the children who're playing rope skipping. After giving sigh, I'd sometimes met prostitutes who're getting drunk and beckoned me to come closer. On the jalopy, black boys laughed loudly facing each other bringing a radio cassette with full volume. So many buildings crowd in N.Y.C. and they're much higher than the sky in Tokyo, you know. The wind flowing in Tokyo had made me confused. As everybody wants, the more avaricious or cool we wanna be, the more ridiculous we must find ourselves. It had taken me a lot of time to meet you, to complete this album, because it may be a gap between the business, and the system and also my ideals... Tokyo is a big city. Whenever I walk, I'll bump against something. I wonder if I could feel a little passion in each time..... We can try to keep our chins up, and we'll find the sky is so high and the city is so flat. Whenever or wherever I've been walkin', stoppin', dashin' and dreamin', I've never stopped looking for. --July 1988, Yutaka Ozaki