Rebirth (Gackt Album)
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''Rebirth'' is the second full-length studio album released by Japanese solo artist
Gackt , better known as Gackt (stylized in all caps), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor. Born in Okinawa Prefecture, Okinawa to a Ryukyuan people, Ryukyuan family, Gackt learned the piano at a young age and was rai ...
on April 25, 2001. It is a
concept album A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Som ...
linked to its successor '' Re:born'' from 2009.


Release

The album was released on April 25, 2001, by
Nippon Crown is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963. It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho. The record label singles which topped the Oricon Singles Chart are Kaze's "22-Sai no ...
. In the initial counting week of May it reached number three on the
Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that ...
charts, with sales of 108,390 copies. In the upcoming week, it was at the number fifteen, with sales of 25,910 copies. It charted for 21 weeks. In 2001, with sales of 214,220 copies, it was the 100th best selling album of the year. Preceding the album release, were released three singles, " Seki-Ray", " Secret Garden" and " Kimi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto". The first single "Seki-Ray" reached number seven on the third counting week of March 2000, with sales of 70,820 copies. In the upcoming two week, it was at number ten, with sales of 16,120. It charted for 6 weeks, and sold over 108,000 copies. The second single "Secret Garden" reached number ten on the fourth counting week of November 2000, with sales of 50,110 copies. It charted for 5 weeks, and sold over 83,000 copies. The third single "Kimi ni Tamei Dekiru Koto" reached number six on the fourth counting week of March 2001, with sales of 50,720 copies. In the upcoming three weeks, it was at number thirteen, sixteen and eighteen respectively, with sales of 18,490, and 14,550, and 9,590 copies. It charted for 18 weeks, and sold over 146,770 copies.


Track listing


Notes

* Like "Ares", the intro of ''
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...
'', "4th..." is not sung in any actual language. Again, the booklet provides the lyrics. * "Papa lapped a pap lopped" was used in the 'Mitsubishi DVD & Navi V7000' cm.


Album credits

; Personnel *
Vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...
,
Piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...
: Gackt *
Guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...
,
Violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...
: You *Guitar: Masa *Effects, Guitar: Nao Kimura *Guitar: Yukihiro "chachamaru" Fujimura *
Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...
/
Cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...
: Ren *
Drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...
: Toshiyuki Sugino *Keyboards programming: Shusei Tsukamoto *"M-5" Strings arrangement, programming: Yohei Shimada *Drums: Ryuichi Nishida *Drums: Kota Igarashi *Violin: Gen Ittetsu *Cello: Masami Horisawa *"M-9" Sexy voice: Mai&Akira ; Production *Producer: Gackt *Executive Producer: Masami Kudo (Nippon Crown), You Harada (Museum Museum) *Sound Technical Producer: Yukihiro "chachamaru" Fujimura *Engineer: Motonari Matsumoto, Kentaro Kikuchi *Mastering Engineer: Yoichi Aikawa (Rolling Sound Mastering Studio) ; Design *Art direction & Design: Jun Misaki *Photographer: Kenji Tsukagoshi


References

{{Authority control 2001 albums Gackt albums 2000s concept albums