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''Real'' is the eighth album by
L'Arc-en-Ciel L'Arc-en-Ciel ( French: 'The Rainbow', stylized as L'Arc~en~Ciel), also known as Laruku, is a Japanese rock band, formed in Osaka in 1991 by bassist tetsuya and vocalist hyde. Following the departure of original members hiro and pero, guitari ...
, released on August 30, 2000. It was the band's last original studio album before a prolonged hiatus. It reached number one on the
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chart and sold over a million copies, being certified by the
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. One of the singles from the album, "
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", is a playable song in the computer game '' DrumMania 4th Mix''.


Track listing


Personnel

* hyde
vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music ( arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...
,
rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar) ...
on track 2, keyboards on track 11 *
ken Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer. * ''Ken'' (film), 1964 Japanese film. * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine. * Ken Masters, a main character in t ...
guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six string instrument, strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or Plucked string instrument, plucking the strings with the dominant hand, w ...
, keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 * tetsubass guitar,
backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...
, keyboards on tracks 6 and 7 * yukihirodrums, keyboards on track 1 * K – female voice on tracks 2 and 10 * Hajime Okano – keyboards on tracks 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11 * Hitoshi Saitou – keyboards on tracks 6, 7 and 11 * Cheiko – backing vocals on track 3 * Nobuhiko Nakayama –
synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...
on track 4 * Ittetsu Gen – strings on track 6 * Yasushi Nakanishi –
Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
on track 8 * Chokkaku – keyboards on track 8


References

2000 albums L'Arc-en-Ciel albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub