Artist Ringo Sheena Label Virgin Records | Release date 27 May 2002 | |
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Released May 27, 2002 (2002-05-27) Length 32:52 (Disc1)
34:56 (Disc2) Producer Uni Inoue (Disc1&.2)
Masashi Kudo (Disc1) Utaite Myōri Sono Ichi
(2002) Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana
(2003) Genres J-pop, Rock music, Blues, Folk music Similar Ringo Sheena albums, J-pop albums | ||
Utaite Myouri ~sono ichi~ (唄ひ手冥利 ～其ノ壱～, Singer's Luck ~part one~) is Ringo Sheena’s first cover album released on May 27, 2002 by Toshiba EMI, which is the set of two discs. The album reached #1 and has since sold 409,000 copies. It was certified Platinum by the RIAJ.
Contents
Outline
For Ringo Sheena, this album is the first work after the interval of 1 year 2 months from her maternity leave.
The songs of the musicians who had an influence on her until now is recorded on this album. Sheena usually writes a lyrics and music, but she devoted herself to "a singer" this time. And she entrusted the arrangement to Seiji Kameda who arranged her first and second album together and Toshiyuki Mori who arranged her third album together. She selected famous songs mainly by herself from the music which had an influence on her, and ordered them to arrange these songs in their own way.
Sheena parodied the name of arrangers, and the notation of 2 disks is "Kame-pact Disc" and "Mori-pact Disc" respectively. Kame-pact Disk was recorded at once by a garage rock style which she chose daringly in the early days because of lack of the budget. However, in "Mori-pact Disc", a music sequencer is used, and multitrack recording is adopted. That was succeeded in her 3rd album.
The album jacket is designed by Sheena and Yumi Ota who is the employee of her private office. Sheena is in charge of photographs and illustrations of the booklet, and she and Ryosuke Nagaoka (Ukigmo) design the lettering. The model of hands and feet is Hisako Tabuchi.
Four guest singers participated in each disk by two people. All of them are Sheena's acquaintances. Masamune Kusano is from the same town with her, and he is a senior of her elder brother's high school. He made Seiji Kameda a producer of his band "Spitz" later. Nao Matsuzaki is Sheena's friend. Hikaru Utada is Sheena's friend, too, and she sang a duet in the same song with Utada at Toshiba EMI party before, which was floating around all over Japan by Napster. Junpei Shiina is her elder brother.
Sheena arranged one bonus track to every two disk.
Background
It wasn't clear whether Ringo Sheena returned to the entertainment world, so Toshiba EMI intended to release the Greatest hits at first to fulfill the number of the CD contracted with her in the contract term. Actually, she said at a TV program recently, "I even thought that I would just retire as I was during my maternity leave". But she refused that plan obstinately, so this cover album was released as the compromise.
Disc1: Kame-pact Disc (亀パクトディスク)
All songs arranged by Seiji Kameda except for track 9.
Disc2: Mori-pact Disc (森パクトディスク)
All songs arranged by Toshiyuki Mori except for track 9.
Disc1: Kame-pact Disc
Gyakutai Glycogen (虐待グリコゲン, Abuse Glycogen)
Guest vocalists
Disc2: Mori-pact Disc
Bōtoku Vitamin (冒涜ヴァイタミン, Blasphemy Vitamin)
Guest vocalists
Songs
Haiiro No Hitomi
Chiisana Kinomi