Under the Sun (Yosui Inoue album)

1993 studio album by Yosui Inoue

Under the Sun

Studio album by

Yosui Inoue

Released| September 15, 1993
Recorded| Paradise Studio Komazawa, Studio Jive, Adagio Atelier, Hitokuchizaka, Burnish Stone (Tokyo, Japan)
Little Mountain, Warehouse (Vancouver, Canada)
Genre| J-pop (Folk rock, adult contemporary)
Length| 52:21
Label| For Life
Yosui Inoue chronology
| The Night Without a Guide
(1992)  | Under the Sun
(1993)  | Eien no Shuru
(1994)

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Singles from  Under the Sun

1. "Gogatsu no Wakare"/"Be-Pop Juggler"
Released: March 19, 1993
2. "Make-Up Shadow"
Released: July 21, 1993
3. "Canadian Accordion"
Released: November 3, 1993

Under the Sun is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in September 1993.

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. The song became the highest-charting single for Inoue, reaching number-two on the Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles charts, selling in excess of 800,000 copies. Sato also arranged the song, and his arrangement won him a prize at the 35th Japan Record Awards.[1]

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.[2]

## Track listing

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All songs written and composed by Yosui Inoue (except where indicated)

1. "Be-Pop Juggler" - 3:10
2. "Eleven" - 4:43
3. "Mizugameza no Yoru (水瓶座の夜)" - 4:37
4. "Power Down" - 4:42
5. "Make-up Shadow" (Utsuru Ayame/Inoue) - 4:07
6. "Canadian Accordion (カナディアン アコーデオン, Kanadian Akōdeon)" (Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Inoue) - 5:34
7. "Kagi no Kazu (鍵の数)" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 4:28
8. "Stoic (ストイック, Sutoikku)" (Inoue/Jun Satō/Yasushi Akimoto) - 5:50
9. "Go-gatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" - 5:06
10. "Under the Sun" - 5:41
11. "Nagai Hanashi (長い話)" (Inoue/Banana-UG-Kawashima) - 4:06

## Personnel

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* Yosui Inoue - Lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar
* Jun Sato - Piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals
* Banana-UG-Kawashima - Synthesizer, piano
* Yoshinobu Kojima - Organ, piano
* Yasuharu Nakanishi - Piano
* Yasuhiro Kobayashi \- Accordion
* Tsuyoshi Kon - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar
* Susumu Osada - Electric guitar
* Haruo Kubota - Electric guitar
* Koki Ito - Bass guitar
* Chiharu Mikuzuki - Bass guitar
* Hiroshi Igarashi - Auto harp, banjo, steel drums
* Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion, kalimba
* Nobu Saito - Percussion
* Hideo Yamaki - Drums
* Jun Aoyama - Drums
* Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
* Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
* Taro Kiyooka - Trombone
* Hidefumi Toki - Clarinet
* Aska Strings (conducted by Aska Kaneko) - Strings
* Ma*To - Computer programming
* Keishi Urata - Computer programming
* Hideki Matsutake - Computer programming
* Naoki "Taro" Suzuki - Drums programming
* Seri - Background vocals
* Nisa - Background vocals
* Anna - Background vocals
* Eve - Background vocals

## Production

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* Arranger: Yosui Inoue (#1,4), Jun Sato (#5,6,8,9), Tsuyoshi Kon (#2), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#3,11), Yasuharu Nakanishi (#7), Haruo Kubota (#10)
* Composer: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #5,6), Utsuru Ayame (#5), Kyohei Tsutsumi (#6), Natsumi Hirai (#7), Jun Sato (#8), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#11)
* Lyricist: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #9), Yasushi Akimoto (#9)
* Mixing Engineer: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Tendo, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuta Kagema
* Recording Engineer: Jun Tendo, Junichi YAmazaki, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuji Kuraishi, Kazuya Yoshida, Kazuya Miyazaki
* Session Support Engineer: Kenji Igarashi, Yutaka Uematsu, Motoyoshi Komine, Junichi Hohrin, Yuko Suzuki, Hajime Nagai, Kenji Matsunaga, Kaoru Matsuyama
* Mastering Engineer: Toru Kotetsu, Masayoshi Nakajo
* Art/Styling: Sachico Ito
* Photographer: Kenji Miura
* Artwork producer: Noriko Shimoyama
* Artwork designer:Shuzo Hayashi
* Artwork supervisor: Tomio Watanabe
* Artwork: Hiroshi Shoji
* Promotion Staff: Mitsuo Sakauchi, Yasuhide Sasa
* Production Coordinator: Sei Sato, Takashi Yokoo, Yasuko Makino, Chiharu Senoma
* Production Manager: Nao Funatsu
* Production Assistant: Hidenori Muto, Rie Nishioka, Satoko Ishizaki

## Chart positions

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### Album

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Year  | Chart  | Position  | Sales  | RIAJ Certification

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1993  | Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)  | 1  | 370,000  | Platinum

### Singles

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Year  | Single  | B-Side  | Chart  | Position  | Sales  | RIAJ Certification

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1992  | "Gogatsu no Wakare"  | "Be-Pop Juggler"  | Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)  | 27  | 89,000  | Gold
"Make-Up Shadow"  | "Present"  | 2  | 817,000  | 3× Platinum
"Canadian Accordion"  | "Hikiage Mono no Uta"  | 35  | 24,000  | --

## Release history

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Country  | Date  | Label  | Format  | Catalog number

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Japan  | September 15, 1993  | For Life Records  | CD | FLCF-30220
Audio cassette | FLTF-28040
March 25, 2009  | For Life Music Entertainment/BMG  | SHM-CD  | FLCF-5013

## References

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1. ^ "History of the Japan Record Awards - List of the 35th Award Winners" (in Japanese). Japan Composer's Association. Archived from the original on 2008-06-15. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
2. ^ "Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Yosui Inoue" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-06-19. Retrieved 2009-04-12.

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