Kylyn is a 1979 fusion album by Kazumi Watanabe

Kazumi Watanabe

Kazumi Watanabe is a jazz and jazz fusion guitarist, from Tokyo, Japan. He was born on October 14, 1953 Kazumi learned to play guitar from Sadanori Nakamure, one of Japan's grandmaster guitarists. Kazumi released his first recording in 1971, and quickly became a promising guitarist in his own right...

 (actually released as an eponymous album by "Kylyn"). It was released in June 1979, whilst the recording sessions took place between April and May. Kylyn was also the name of Watanabe's group at the time, and at times it featured fellow 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...

 on synths and keyboards. Sakamoto and Watanabe did work together for the album Tokyo Joe

Tokyo Joe (album)

Tokyo Joe is a 1978 album by Ryuichi Sakamoto and guitarist Kazumi Watanabe.The album was originally released in Japan in 1978, then re-released also in the Western countries in the 1980s.-Track listing:# "Tokyo Joe"# "The End of Asia"...

released the previous year.

Track listing

1. "199X" 1:56
2. "Sonic Boom" 6:30
3. "Water Ways Flow Backward Again" 5:17
4. "Milestones" 8:15
5. "E-Day Project" 5:45
6. "Akasaka Moon" 4:34
7. "Kylyn" 2:29
8. "I'll Be There" 6:38
9. "Mother Terra" 3:25