Color Bars (カラーバー) is an EP by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, released on January 18, 2012, in Japan through EMI Music Japan and Virgin Music. The album was produced by the band and Japanese

recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, ...

Uni Inoue. The first press edition is a cardboard sleeve.

Background

The album's cover art is a combination of many "color bars", which is a representation of

SMPTE color bars SMPTE color bars are a television test pattern used where the NTSC video standard is utilized, including countries in North America. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) refers to the pattern as Engineering Guideline ( ...

. They suggested the end of the band by it, since color bars fill the telescreen after all the TV programs for the day finish in Japan. This mini album, intended to be the band's final studio release, includes one song written by each band member, including Toshiki Hata's first composition for the band and the first time Seiji Kameda wrote lyrics for his own song. In addition, the lead vocals on "Kai Horror Dust" and "Honto no Tokoro" were provided by the songs' respective composers, while

Ringo Shiina , known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer, songwriter and musician. She is also the founder and lead vocalist of the band Tokyo Jihen. She describes herself as "". She was ranked number 36 in a list of Japan's top 100 musicians compiled ...

played drums on the latter track. As in ''

Dai Hakken ''Dai Hakken'' (大発見; literally ''great discovery'') is the fifth studio album by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, released on June 29, 2011 in Japan through EMI Music Japan and Virgin Music. The album was produced by the band and Japanese rec ...

'', each song title is made up of seven characters.

Track listing

All the official European language titles according to

's website.

Charts and certifications

Charts

Sales and certifications

Notes and references

External links

Tokyo Jihen Discography
Tokyo Jihen albums 2012 albums EMI Records EPs Virgin Records EPs {{japan-album-stub