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" is the 23rd studio album by Japanese
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...

 singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima
is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in October 1996. The album includes a new recording of her 1995 chart-topping hit "Wanderer's Song", and also features her own interpretation of "Lie to Me Eternally" which was originally written for Long Time No See album recorded by Takuro Yoshida
Takuro Yoshida
is a Japanese male singer-songwriter. He was born on April 5, 1946 in Okuchi, Kagoshima and raised in Hiroshima. He made his debut with the single "Imeji no Uta / Maku II" on June 1, 1970...

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Track listing

  • All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima
    Miyuki Nakajima
    is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

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  1. "" [2nd ver.] – 5:02
  2. "" – 4:45
  3. "" – 6:00
  4. "Leave Me Alone, Please" – 5:10
  5. "" – 4:15
  6. "" – 4:42
  7. "Singles Bar" – 5:54
  8. "" – 3:47
  9. "" – 5:45
  10. "" – 6:39
  11. "Paradise Cafe " – 5:21

Personnel

  • Miyuki Nakajima - vocals
  • Ichizo Seo - keyboards, computer programming
  • Russ Kunkel
    Russ Kunkel
    Russell Kunkel , also known as Russ Kunkel, is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with a number of well-known artists.Kunkel was born in Pittsburgh, PA...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Gregg Bissonette
    Gregg Bissonette
    Gregg Bissonette, is an American drummer. Gregg was born in a family of musicians. His father Bud Bissonette plays drums, his mother Phyllis plays piano and vibraphone, and brother Matt Bissonette plays bass guitar. Gregg started learning to play the drums at age 5 from his father...

     - drums
  • Atsuo Okubo- drums
  • Michael Thompson - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , slide guitar
    Slide guitar
    Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

  • Dean Parks
    Dean Parks
    Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Ft. Worth, TX.-Albums:Dean was member of The North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher in 1970. Dean is best-known through his many contributions to albums by Steely Dan...

     - electric and acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar
  • Nozomi Furukawa - electric guitar
  • Shuji Nakamura - gutguitar, 12 string acoustic guitar
  • Neil Stubenhaus
    Neil Stubenhaus
    Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist.-Career:He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975...

     - electric bass
  • Abraham Laboriel
    Abraham Laboriel
    Abraham Laboriel, Sr. is a Mexican bassist of Garifuna descent who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as "the most widely used session bassist of our time". Laboriel is the father of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and of producer, songwriter, and...

     - electric bass
  • Chiharu Mikuzuki - electric bass
  • Chuck Domanico
    Chuck Domanico
    Charles Louis Domanico , better known as Chuck Domanico, was an American jazz bassist, playing both acoustic and electric bass on the West Coast jazz scene.Domanico was born in Chicago...

     - upright bass
  • Keishi Urata - computer programming
  • Nobuhiko Nakayama - computer programming
  • Manabu Ogasawara - computer programming
  • Jon Giltin - acoustic piano, keyboards, hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

  • Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards, synth bass, acoustic piano
  • Elton Nagata - keyboards
  • Toshihiko Furumura - alto sax, tenor sax
  • Julia Waters - background vocals
  • Maxine Waters - background vocals
  • Oren Waters - background vocals
  • Walfredo Reyes Jr - percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Nobu Saito - percussion

Additional personnel

  • Kiyoshi Hiyama - Background Vocals
  • Yasuhiro Kido- Background Vocals
  • Motoyoshi Iwasaki - Background Vocals
  • Keiko Yamada - Background Vocals
  • Mai Yamane - Background Vocals
  • Akira Yamane - Background Vocals
  • David Campbell - Strings Arrangement and Conduct
  • Suzie Katayama - String Contractor
  • Sid Page - Concertmaster
  • Ryoichi Fujimori - Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...


Production

  • Composer, Writer, Producer and Performer: Miyuki Nakajima
  • Producer and Arranger: Ichizo Seo
  • Arranger: David Campbell
  • Recording Engineer and Mixer: David Thoener, Tad Gotoh
  • Additional Engineer: Wyn Davis, Takanobu Ichikawa, Yuta Uematsu, Chizuru Yamada
  • Assistant Engineer: Jennifer Monner, Jeff DeMorris, Milton Chan, Hideki Odera, Kensuke Miura, Yukiho Wada
  • Mixer: Joe Chicarelli
    Joe Chicarelli
    Joe Chiccarelli is an American music producer, mixer and engineer who has been active since early '80's. He has produced albums by Stan Ridgway, Oingo Boingo, Sandra Bernhard, My Morning Jacket, Counting Crows, The Shins, Augie March, Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear, Kurt Elling, Big Talk...

  • Assistant Mixer: Chadd Munsey, Hiroshi Tokunaga
  • Digital Edit: Rieko Shimoji
  • A & R: Kohichi Suzuki
  • Production Supervisor: Michio Suzuki
  • Assistant for Producer: Tomoo Satoh
  • Music Coordinater: Ruriko Sakumi Duer, Kohji Kimura, Fumio Miyata, Tomoko Takaya
  • Photographer: Jin Tamura, Jeffrey Bender
  • Designer: Hirofumi Arai
  • Costume Coordination: Takeshi Hazama
  • Hair & Make-Up: Noriko Izumisawa
  • Location Coordinator: Chikako DeZonia, Dean Ichiyanagi
  • Artist Management: Kohji Suzuki, Kohichi Okazaki
  • Management Desk: Atsuko Hayashi
  • Artist Promotion: Yoshio Kan
  • Disc Promotion: Tsukihiko Yoshida, Shoko Sone
  • Sales Promotor: Ikuko Ishigame
  • General Management: Takahiro Uno
  • DAD: Genichi Kawakami
    Genichi Kawakami
    was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha and was also widely influential as a community music educator....

  • Mastering: Tom Baker at Future Disc Systems

Chart positions

Year Chart Position Weeks Sales RIAJ Cetification
1996 Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100) 7 (CDDA
CDDA
CDDA may refer to:* Circularly Disposed Dipole Array - a large circular antenna used by the military* Compact Disc Digital Audio - an audio recording format...

)
9 200,000+ Gold
20 (APO-CD) 4
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