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
According to Aubrey Powell, for this cover photograph, it rain for days in Iceland, the sun barely shone and it was a dull day. a dye-transfer print joined the two prints and Yumi like the result.
Cover Location: Icelandic landscape with a stand-in for Yumi.
Who Did What: Photography – A. Powell
Label: Express ETP-90120(JPN)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One A1 タワー・サイド・メモリー A2 街角のペシミスト A3 ビュッフェにて A4 夕闇をひとり A5 守ってあげたい |
Side Two B1 カンナ8号線 B2 手のひらの東京タワー B3 グレイス・スリックの肖像 B4 グループ B5 A Happy New Year |
Credits
Acoustic Guitar – Chuei Yoshikawa, Masaki Matsubara, Ryusuke Seto
Arranged By [Chorus Arrangement] – Masamichi Sugi (tracks: B1), Masataka Matsutoya
Bass – Kenji Takamizu, Shigeru Okazawa
Chorus – Clara, Hiroko Suzuki, Buzz, Junko Yamamoto, Kayo Ishu, Kayoko Wada, Leona, Lilika, Masamichi Sugi, Time 5, Yasuo Tai
Drums – Eiji Shimamura, Tatsuo Hayashi
Electric Guitar – Masaki Matsubara, Shigeru Suzuki
Flute, Piccolo Flute – Yukio Eto
Keyboards – Masataka Matsutoya
Lyricon – Takeru Muraoka
Management [Recording] – Asami Fujii
Percussion – Nobu Saito, Pecker
Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – Masataka Matsutoya
Recorded By, Mixed By – Yasuo Morimoto
Recorded By, Mixed By [Assistant] – Michio Nakakoshi, Nobuo Maeda, Shigeru Takise, Takanobu Arai
Recording Supervisor – Seizo Shimokobe, Yoshihiro Kurita
Saxophone – Jake Concepcion
Strings – Tomato Strings Ensemble
Synthesizer [Programmer] – Keishi Urata
Trumpet – Hitoshi Okano, Kenji Nakazawa
Written-By – Yumi Matsutoya
