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Released
  
1998

Length
  
71:83

The True Sun (1998)
  
The True World (1999)

Release date
  
1998

Recorded
  
July 5, 1997

Producer
  
Nagisa Ni te

Artist
  
Nagisa ni te

Genres
  
Folk rock, Acoustic music, Psychedelic rock

Labels
  
Org Records, P-Vine Records

Similar
  
On the Love Beach, The Same as a Flower, Feel, Yosuga

The True Sun is the second release by Japanese psychedelic-folk rock duo Nagisa Ni te. It was released in 1998 by Org Records as an LP. In 2000, P-Vine Records re-released this album in CD format.

Contents

The True Sun is a live gig recorded at H2O Factory, Tokyo, on July 5, 1997, and includes songs which were later recorded in the studio. Takeda is much more involved than on their first album, On the Love Beach.

Track listing

  1. "On the Beach" - 5:02
  2. "Morning Glory / River" - 12:54
  3. "My Story" - 3:36
  4. "The True Sun" - 10:41
  5. "She" - 8:53
  6. "Gentle Japanese"
    (Youichi Higashi, Hiroshi Ebinuma, Masamitsu Tayama) - 3:47
  7. "Elegy to Betrayal" - 6:21
  8. "Me, on the Beach" - 9:19
  9. "Mysterium Coniunctionis"
    (Naoki Zushi) - 12:28

Personnel

  • Masako Takeda: vocals, tambourine, ocarina
  • Shinji Shibayama: vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Ikuro Takahashi: percussion
  • Production and credits

    All songs written by Masako Takeda and Shinji Shibayama except tracks 6 and 9

    Recorded and mixed by Masako Takeda and Shinji Shibayama.
    Linear notes by Takuya Sakaguchi
    English translation by Alan Cummings
    Photography by Noriko Seo, Ken-ichi Takayama
    Reissue producer - Fumihito Taguchi
    Art direction and design by Shinji Shibayama and Masako Takeda

    References

    The True Sun Wikipedia