is the sixth studio album by Japanese singer/songwriter
Chisato Moritaka
(born 11 April 1969) is a Japanese pop singer who also is notable as a songwriter. She is affiliated with Up-Front Create, a subsidiary of the Up-Front Group. , released on March 25, 1992, by
Warner Music Japan
Warner Music Group's labels include the following.
Flagship labels
*Atlantic Records
*Elektra Records
* Parlophone Records
*Warner Records
Atlantic Records Group
* 1st & 15th Entertainment
* All Money In
* Artist Partners Group
* Asylum Rec ...
. The album was recorded at
The Hit Factory
The Hit Factory is a recording studio in New York City owned and operated by Troy Germano.
History
On March 6, 1975, Edward Germano, a singer, record producer, and one of the principal owners of the Record Plant Studios New York, purchased the ...
in
London
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. A limited edition release included a 32-page photo book.
The album reached No. 3 on
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in N ...
's albums chart and sold over 314,000 copies.
It was also certified Platinum by the
RIAJ
The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969.
The RIAJ's activities include ...
in April 1994.
Track listing
Personnel
* Chisato Moritaka – vocals, guitar (9)
* Hideo Saitō – all instruments, programming, backing vocals (all tracks except where indicated)
* Yasuaki Maejima – keyboards, piano, programming (2, 7)
* Yuichi Takahashi – guitar, synthesizer, programming, backing vocals (4, 7, 13, 15)
*
Hiromasa Ijichi
is a Japanese composer and music producer. Most of his compositions are sung by the Japanese girl group Speed
In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of it ...
– piano (4)
* Nobuo Kurata – piano (8, 14)
* Shin Kōno –
Fender Rhodes
The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, th ...
, programming, (6, 10)
* Yukie Matsuo – keyboard (12)
* Yukio Seto – guitar, (4, 6, 10), Fender Rhodes (14)
* Hiroyoshi Matsuo – guitar, programming (7, 12, 13)
* Masafumi Yokoyama – bass, guitar, programming, backing vocals (4 13, 15)
* Kenji Takamizu – bass (14)
* Eiji Shimamura – drums (14)
* Seiji Matsuura – backing vocals (1)
*
Gavyn Wright
Gavyn Wright is a British violinist and orchestra leader with the London Session Orchestra and Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
He is best known for his orchestral arrangements on pop productions (including Elton John, Simply Red, Bush, Mecano, Oa ...
– strings (8, 14)
* Jeff Daly – alto flute (14)
* Ron Asprey – alto flute (14)
* Steve Sidwell –
flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...
(14)
Charts
Certification
Cover versions
* Sanae Johnouchi covered "Yowasete yo Kon'ya Dake" as her eighth single on August 25, 1993.
Video album
The video album for ''Rock Alive'' was released on
LaserDisc and
VHS on June 25, 1992. Its contents were compiled in the 2000 DVD ''Chisato Moritaka DVD Collection No. 6: Kusai Mono ni wa Futa wo Shiro!!/Rock Alive''.
Track listing
References
External links
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1992 albums
Chisato Moritaka albums
Japanese-language albums
Warner Music Japan albums