Under the Sun (Yosui Inoue album)

Under the Sun
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
Singles from Under the Sun
	"Gogatsu no Wakare"/"Be-Pop Juggler"; Released: March 19, 1993; "Make-Up Shadow"; Released: July 21, 1993; "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

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

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

Personnel

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

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

Album

Year	Chart	Position	Sales	RIAJ Certification
1993	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	1	370,000	Platinum

Singles

Year	Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Sales	RIAJ Certification
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

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	September 15, 1993	For Life Records	CD	FLCF-30220
	September 15, 1993	For Life Records	Audio cassette	FLTF-28040
	March 25, 2009	For Life Music Entertainment/BMG	SHM-CD	FLCF-5013

References

^ "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.
^ "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.

[35rt-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.

[YosuiLP-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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