On the Love Beach is the first album by Japanese psychedelic-folk rock duo Nagisa Ni te

Nagisa ni te

is a Japanese psychedelic-folk rock duo. The group's name is translated as "on the beach". Shinji Shibayama, the group's founder — anda previous member of Idiot O'Clock and Hallelujahs — is also owner of Org Records, which has released albums from groups like Maher Shalal Hash Baz and Naoki Zushi...

. It was released in 1995 by Org Records. In 2000, P-Vine Records re-released this album followed by Jagjaguwar in 2002 for North American/European distribution.

On the Love Beach is essentially solo album by Shinji Shibayama with an assortment of guests. Although Masako Takeda is credited with the writing of songs, she appears to be absent in the performance or recording of the music and is instead credited with 'Wind'.

Tracks 3 and 7, both called "Deserting You", have almost-similar lyrics, but the songwriting and instrumentation are entirely different.

Track listing

1. "Me, on the Beach" - 8:38
2. "Elegy to Betrayal" - 5:13
3. "Deserting You" - 4:10
4. "Yesterday's Story" - 2:42
5. "The Signs of Love" - 5:25
6. "The False Stars" - 8:02
7. "Deserting You" - 3:14
8. "On the Beach" - 4:40
9. "They" - 6:36
10. "An Old Story" - 6:52
11. "Woman" - 10:04

Personnel

• Masako Takeda: wind
• Shinji Shibayama: vocals and all instruments except
• Eiji Tanaka: bass guitar, "fuzz" guitar, vocals, hand clapping
• Naoki Zushi: electric guitar, backing/chorus vocals
• Kyoto Nabesaka: vocals
• Takahisa Watanabe: charango
  Charango
  The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, 66 cm long, traditionally made with the shell of the back of an armadillo. Primarily played in traditional Andean music, and is sometimes used by other Latin American musicians. Many contemporary charangos are now made with...
  
  
• Ken-ichi Takayama: vocals
• Tori Kudo (of Maher Shalal Hash Baz
  Maher Shalal Hash Baz
  Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo, a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah verses 8:1 and 8:3, and translates roughly as "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder." Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz...
  
  ): piano, bass
• Hiro Nakazaki (of Maher Shalal Hash Baz
  Maher Shalal Hash Baz
  Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the artistic alter ego of Tori Kudo, a Japanese naivist composer and musician. The name is taken from Maher-shalal-hash-baz in the Book of Isaiah verses 8:1 and 8:3, and translates roughly as "Hurrying to the spoil, he has made haste to the plunder." Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz...
  
  ): euphonium, trumpet, tuba, hand clapping
• Ikuro Takahashi: drums, hand clapping, feedback
• Reiko.A: hand clapping
• Chie Mukai: vocals (track 8)

Production and credits

All songs written by Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda

Recorded and mixed at Omega Sound Studio, Osaka, and Bea-Pot Studio, Tokyo, during March 1992 and April 1995

Mixed by Shinji Shibayama

Engineered by Tesuya Kotani (Omega) and Takaaki Hanya (Bea-Pot) on track 7, 10

Digital mastering by Akihiko Takenaka at Heart Beat, Tokyo 1995

English translation by Alan Cummings

Art direction and design by Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda

Art direction and design for the U.S./European version also by Jagjaguwar

Photographs by Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda

Thanks to Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Arranged and produced by Nagisa Ni te for Org Records