This is marketed as a "self-cover" album, an album in which Joe Hisaishi took a handful of his famous songs from film, tv and animation works and rearranged them strictly for piano.  It contains the first ever piano arrangements of songs from Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.

Track 1 from the movie 'Kikujiro'
Track 2 from the movie 'Hatsukoi'
Tracks 3-4 from the movie 'Spirited Away'
Track 5 from the album 'Paradise on Earth'
Track 6 from the movie 'Brother'
Track 7 from the album 'I am'
Track 8 from the movie 'Hana-bi'
Track 9 from the movie 'Princess Mononoke'
Track 10 from the movie 'Diary of Early Winter Shower'
Track 11 from the movie 'Piano Stories II'

All songs composed by JOE HISAISHI
Piano : JOE HISAISHI
Produced by JOE HISAISHI and MASAYOSHI OKAWA

Directed by Akira Watanabe (FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC INC.)
Recording Engineer : Masayoshi Okawa
                               Suminobu Hamada
                               Hiroyuki Akita (Wonder Station)
Mastering Engineer : Shigeki Fujino (Universal Recording Studios)
Piano Technician : Masanori Hanaoka (YAMAHA CORPORATION)
Recording System Planning & Equipment : Masamichi Ohashi (N.S.S)
Production Manager : Masaki Sekijima (Wonder City)
Recorded at Tokyo Opera City (Oct 12, Dec 27·28 2001 and Jan 8 2002)
                   Kouta Kikuchi (Tokyo Opera City)
Mixed at Wonder Station · Tokyo Japan

A&R Supervisor : Ken Sugaya (Universal Polydor)
                          Akira Sasajima (FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC INC.)
                          Ayame Fujisawa (Wonder City)
A&R : Masanori Kato and Makoto Endo (Universal Polydor/Polydor)
Marketing Planner : Katsuyasu Kinase (Universal Music)

Art Direction & Design : Ryoji Ohya (Z&Z.)
Photograph : Takeshi Hanzawa (Cube)
Stylist : Remi Oshiki
Artwork Coordinator : Yumi Haga (Universal Music)

YAMAHA CF III S · Provided by YAMAHA CORPORATION
                           Akira Nishio (YAMAHA CORPORATION)
                           Osamu Nakamura (Yamaha Music Tokyo)

Executive Producer : Kei Ishizaki (Universal Music)
                               Ichiro Asatsuma (FUJIPACIFIC MUSIC INC.)
                               Mamoru Fujisawa (Wonder City)