Biography
Yumi Matsutoya, nicknamed Yuming (ユーミン Yūmin), is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. She is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice, and live performances, and is an important figure in Japanese popular music. Her recording career has been commercially successful with more than 42 million records sold.In 1990, her album The Gates of Heaven became the first album to be certified “2x million” by the RIAJ,and she has had twenty-one #1 albums listed on the Oricon charts. She is the only artist to have at least one number-one album every year on the Oricon charts for 18 consecutive years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi_Matsutoya
Album & Cover
This is the ninth studio album by Yumi Matsutoya. Since the 1970s, she has also been famous as an artist who performs in concerts using gorgeous and novel sets. She used elaborated visual technology on the stage and it is said that they cost over a hundred million yen.
Cover Location:
Who Did What: Photography – A. Powell with R. Evans
Label: Express ETP-90265(Japan)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One Garufurenzu (Girlfriends) Kekkon Ruretto (Roulette) Danderaion (dandelion) ~ Osozaki No Tanpopo Aoi Fune De Fushigi Na Taiken |
Side Two Hatobureiku (Heartbreak) Watashi Wo Wasureru Koro Toki Wo Kakeru Shojo |
Credits
Acoustic Guitar – Chuei Yoshikawa, Ryusuke Seto
Arranged By [Synthesizer] – Keishi Urata, Masataka Matsutoya
Arranged By [Track Arranger] – Takanobu Arai
Backing Vocals – Fumiko Hiratsuka, Hiroko Suzuki, Buzz, Jin Kirigaya, Junko Yamamoto, Kayoko Ishu, Kayoko Wada, Toshihiro “Bobby”
Kirigaya, Yumi Matsutoya
Bass – Kenji Takamizu
Drums – Tatsuo Hayashi
Electric Guitar – Masaki Matsubara
Engineer – Masatsugu Yamazaki
Engineer [Assistant] – Kinya Takayama, Shigeru Takise, Tadashi Inoue, Takanobu Arai, Tsuyoshi Inoue
Flute – Yukio Eto
Harp – Keiko Yamakawa
Keyboards – Masataka Matsutoya
Management [Recording] – Music Land
Percussion – Nobu Saito
Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – Masataka Matsutoya
Programmed By [Synthesizer] – Keishi Urata
Recording Supervisor [Directed By] – Sadahiro Tsukawaki, Seizo Shimokobe
Remix – Keishi Urata, Masatsugu Yamazaki
Saxophone – Jake Concepcion
Strings – Hiiro Group
Trombone – Eiji Arai
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Shin Kazuhara
Written-By – Yumi Matsutoya
Notes
Full color 12″x12″ booklet and Obi.
