is the third studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter

Miho Komatsu is a former Japanese singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, Komatsu began her career as a songwriter, writing "Kono Machi de Kimi to Kurashitai" for Field of View. In May 1997, she released her debut single " Nazo", which served ...

. It was released on 16 February 2000 under

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Background

This is her first album released under new recording label

which she moved in April, 1999. The album includes 3 previously released singles, Sayonara no Kakera, Saitan Kyori de and Kaze ga Soyogu Basho. Although her 7th single was released in her previous label Amemura records, 8th single was released in late spring under Giza. Saitan Kyori has received completely new instrumentation for this album, it doesn't include subtitle. Compared to the single version, the intro starts more quietly and drum solo was completely cut off. The song "As" has later received re-arranged version in her single Anata ga Iru Kara as b-side track. The song ''Boyfriend'' from single Sayonara no Kakera as b-side track was included in this album as well. Some songs from the album, included ''Ame ga Furu Tabi ni'', ''Boyfriend'', ''Yume to Genjitsu no Hazama'' and ''As'' were released in her conceptual album ''

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'' in 2003. Takeshi Hayama, the famous arranger in

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who provided arrangements for many popular artist including

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, was involved in album production along with

Kūron Oshiro (born 7 December 1961) is a Japanese musical composer and arranger. Oshiro currently works for Giza Studio composing and arranging music for artists such as Hayami Kishimoto, Miho Komatsu, Azumi Uehara, Rina Aiuchi, and Fayray , (born Ap ...

and

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Charting

The album reached #5 in its first week with 72,180 sold copies. Album charted for 5 weeks and sold more than 100,000 copies in total.Oricon rankings. title=everywhere / 小松未歩 , newspaper = Oricon http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/217885/products/119870/1/

Track listing

In media

*Kaze ga Soyogu Basho **for Anime television series

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as opening theme *Sayonara no Kakera **for

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variety program ''Paku2 Gurumenbo'' as ending theme *Saitan Kyori de **for

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variety program ''Rank Oukoku'' as opening theme *BEAUTIFUL LIFE **for

program ''Yajiuma Wide'' as ending theme

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Miho Komatsu 3rd 2000 albums Miho Komatsu albums Albums produced by Daiko Nagato Giza Studio albums Japanese-language albums