Released September 15, 1993 Under the Sun(1993) Eien no Shuru(1994) Release date 15 September 1993 | Length 52:21 Artist Yōsui Inoue Label For Life Music | |
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Recorded Paradise Studio Komazawa, Studio Jive, Adagio Atelier, Hitokuchizaka, Burnish Stone (Tokyo, Japan)Little Mountain, Warehouse (Vancouver, Canada) Similar Lion & Pelican, Blue Selection, GOLDEN BAD, 永遠のシュール, BEST BALLADE | ||
Under the Sun is the 16th studio album by a Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in September 1993.
Contents
Two songs "Gogatsu no Wakare" and "Make-Up Shadow" were released as a single prior to the album, and the latter became a massive hit.
"Make-Up Shadow" was featured as the theme song for Subarashikikana Jinsei, a television drama aired on Fuji TV. The music was composed by Jun Sato (who used the pseudonym Utsuru Ayame), and Inoue wrote the lyrics. A song became the highest charting single for Inoue, reaching the number-two on the Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles and selling in excess of 800,000 copies. Sato also arranged the song, and his arrangement won the 35th Japan Record Awards.
The album debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon, and became his fifth chart-topping non-compilation album since 9.5 Carats released in 1984.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Yosui Inoue (except where indicated)
- "Be-Pop Juggler" - 3:10
- "Eleven" - 4:43
- "Mizugameza no Yoru (水瓶座の夜)" - 4:37
- "Power Down" - 4:42
- "Make-up Shadow" (Utsuru Ayame/Inoue) - 4:07
- "Canadian Accordion (カナディアン アコーデオン, Kanadian Akōdeon)" (Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Inoue) - 5:34
- "Kagi no Kazu (鍵の数)" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 4:28
- "Stoic (ストイック, Sutoikku)" (Inoue/Jun Satō/Yasushi Akimoto) - 5:50
- "Go-gatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" - 5:06
- "Under the Sun" - 5:41
- "Nagai Hanashi (長い話)" (Inoue/Banana-UG-Kawashima) - 4:06
Personnel
Production
Songs
Be-Pop Juggler3:12
Power Down4:42
Make-up Shadow4:08