is the eighth solo album by

Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...

, the first to be completely self-released. The album was inspired by

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alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

, and several song names come from

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

terms pertaining to the alchemical

magnum opus A masterpiece, ''magnum opus'' (), or ''chef-d’œuvre'' (; ; ) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, ...

Track listing

Personnel

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

, all instruments,

production Production may refer to: Economics and business * Production (economics) * Production, the act of manufacturing goods * Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services) * Production as a stati ...

;technical *Masanori Chinzei -

recording A record, recording or records may refer to: An item or collection of data Computing * Record (computer science), a data structure ** Record, or row (database), a set of fields in a database related to one entity ** Boot sector or boot record, ...

, mixing, project management *Keiko Ueda (Pharos) - mastering ;visuals *Toshifumi Nakai (Seal/S Floor) - design *Hideki Namai -

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

*Kazunori Yoshida - hair & make-up ;operations *Teslakite - promotion **Mika Hirano, Rihito Yumoto *Kenji "Sato-ken" Sato (Chaos Union) - executive production ;Special Thanks *Hirokazu Tsuchiya ( Nikkei netn@avi) *Kasiko Takahasi (Fascination) *Masaru Owaku (A-Shield) *@Nifty

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...

Forum *Atsushi Kakuta *U Khin Maung Aye *Khin May Phue *MJRC **Hirosi Watanabe, Shio Nishikawa, Thaung Htun

Release history

*"Rotation (LOTUS-2)" (CD version) is included on the ''

Millennium Actress is a 2001 Japanese animated drama film co-written and directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse. Loosely based on the lives of actresses Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine, it tells the story of two documentary filmmakers investigating the ...

'' soundtrack and ''

Music For Movies Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

～World of Susumu Hirasawa Soundtracks'' compilation.

References

External links

''Philosopher's Propeller''

"Philosopher's Propeller" music video
{{Authority control 2000 albums Susumu Hirasawa albums