is the 26th studio album

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 by Japanese

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 singer-songwriter

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 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...

.

In November 1999, it was simultaneously released with another album Moon: Wings

Moon: Wings

is the 27th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima.In November 1999, it was simultaneously released with another album Sun: Wings which have similar concept...

which have similar concept. Both albums contains the songs written for the series of Yakai, which had been her conventional plays performed over each December from 1989 through 1998.

Nakajima had a duet with Fumikazu Miyashita on the third track "Into a Dream Someday", a song arranged by David Campbell

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 who also worked on most of Nakajima's albums recorded in the 1990s. Likewise, on the sixth track "I Don't Know Your Language", Campbell's spouse Raven Kane was featured on vocals.

To promote the album, music video

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 of the lead-off track was filmed. However,along with its follow-up, Sun became one of Nakajima's least successful albums in terms of sales. After those albums were released, she left the Pony Canyon which she had belonged to since debut.

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...

, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Into a Dream Someday" arranged by David Campbell).

1. "" – 5:53
2. "Never Cry over Spilt Milk" – 5:33
3. "" – 4:49
4. ""– 4:54
5. "" – 6:25
6. "" – 8:34
7. "" - 5:31
8. "" – 4:17
9. "Good Morning, Ms. Castaway" – 4:22
10. "" – 5:55

Personnel

• Kenny Aronoff
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   - drums
• Gregg Bissonette
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   - drums, cymbals
• Hideo Yamaki - cymbals
• Lee Sklar - bass
• Bob Glaub
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   - bass
• Neil Stubenhaus
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   - bass
• Michael Thompson
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   - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Donald Ferrone - bass
• Chiharu Mikuzuki - bass
• Micheal Fisher - percussion
• Yasuharu Nakanishi - keyboards, synth bass
• Elton Nagata - keyboards
• Ichizo Seo - keyboards
• Jon Gilutin - keyboards, acoustic piano, electric piano
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  ,programming, pad, Indian pipe
• Shingo Kobayashi - keyboards, programming
• Keishi Urata - programming, drum-loop, percussion loop, sound effect
• Seiichi Takubo - programming, drum-loop, percussion loop, sound effect
• Manabu Ogasawara - programming, drum-loop
• Yosuke Sugimoto - programming
• David Campbell - strings conducting
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• Suzie Katayama - strings conducting, cello
  Cello
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  , accordion
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• Larry Corbett - cello
• Daniel Smith - cello
• Steve Richards - cello
• Oscar Meza - cello, bass
• Sid Page
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   - violin (concertmaster), fiddle
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• Joel Derouin - violin (concertmaster)
• Eve Butler - violin
• Berj Garabedian - violin
• Armen Garabedian - violin
• Gerrardo Hilera - violin
• Mario De Leon - violin
• Erza Kliger - violin
• Susan Charman - violin
• John Wittenberg
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   - violin
• Murray Adler - violin
• Michele Richards - violin
• Edmund Stein - violin
• Brian Leonard - violin
• Robert Peterson - violin
• Peter Kent - violin
• Ruth Bruegger - violin
• Virginia Frazier - violin
• Robert Becker - viola
• Matt Funes - viola
• Scott Haupert - viola
• Denyse Buffum - viola
• Matthew Funes - viola
• Renia Koven - viola
• David Stenske - viola
• Karie Prescott - viola
• Sheridon Stokes - recorder
• Earle Dumler - oboe
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• Kazuyo Sugimoto - lead and backing vocals
• Fumikazu Miyashita - harmoney and backing vocals
• Julia Waters - backing vocals
• Maxine Waters - backing vocals
• Oren Waters - backing vocals
• Yoko Kubota - backing vocals
• Katsumi Maeda - backing vocals
• Yoshihiko Shibata - backing vocals
• Midori Sakaeda - backing vocals
• Tatsuo Ogura - backing vocals
• Gen-ichiro Nakajima - backing vocals
• Koujiro Takizawa - backing vocals
• Kazuaki Anzai - backing vocals
• Rick Logan - backing vocals
• John Batdorf - backing vocals
• Joe Pizzulo - backing vocals
• Raven Kane Campbell - vocals

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
1999	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	18 (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... )	4	49,000+
		26 (APO-CD)	2

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	November 3, 1999	Pony Canyon	CD	PCCA-01378
			APO-CD	PCCA-01379
	November 21, 2001	Yamaha Music Communications	CD	YCCW-00031
	November 5, 2008			YCCW-10078