''Rebirth'' is the second full-length studio album released by Japanese solo artist

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on April 25, 2001. It is conceptually linked to its successor '' Re:born'' from 2009.

Release

The album was released on April 25, 2001, by Nippon Crown. In the initial counting week of May it reached number three on the

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charts, with sales of 108,390 copies. In the upcoming week, it was at the number fifteen, with sales of 25,910 copies. It charted for 21 weeks. In 2001, with sales of 214,220 copies, it was the 100th best selling album of the year. Preceding the album release, were released three singles, "

Seki-Ray is a single released by Gackt on March 8, 2000, under Nippon Crown is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963. It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho. The record labe ...

", " Secret Garden" and "

Kimi no Tame ni Dekiru Koto is a single released by Gackt on March 14, 2001, under Nippon Crown is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963. It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho. The record l ...

". The first single "Seki-Ray" reached number seven on the third counting week of March 2000, with sales of 70,820 copies. In the upcoming two week, it was at number ten, with sales of 16,120. It charted for 6 weeks, and sold over 108,000 copies. The second single "Secret Garden" reached number ten on the fourth counting week of November 2000, with sales of 50,110 copies. It charted for 5 weeks, and sold over 83,000 copies. The third single "Kimi ni Tamei Dekiru Koto" reached number six on the fourth counting week of March 2001, with sales of 50,720 copies. In the upcoming three weeks, it was at number thirteen, sixteen and eighteen respectively, with sales of 18,490, and 14,550, and 9,590 copies. It charted for 18 weeks, and sold over 146,770 copies.

Track listing

Notes

* Like "Ares", the intro of ''

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'', "4th..." is not sung in any actual language. Again, the booklet provides the lyrics. * "Papa lapped a pap lopped" was used in the 'Mitsubishi DVD & Navi V7000' cm.

Album credits

; 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 ...

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

: Gackt *

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

: You *Guitar: Masa *Effects, Guitar: Nao Kimura *Guitar: Yukihiro “chachamaru” Fujimura *

Bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range: ** Bass (instrument), including: ** Acoustic bass gui ...

Cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

: Ren *

Drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

: Toshiyuki Sugino *Keyboards programming: Shusei Tsukamoto *”M-5” Strings arrangement, programming: Yohei Shimada *Drums: Ryuichi Nishida *Drums: Kota Igarashi *Violin: Gen Ittetsu *Cello: Masami Horisawa *”M-9” Sexy voice: Mai&Akira ; Production *Producer: Gackt *Executive Producer: Masami Kudo (Nippon Crown), You Harada (Museum Museum) *Sound Technical Producer: Yukihiro “chachamaru” Fujimura *Engineer: Motonari Matsumoto, Kentaro Kikuchi *Mastering Engineer: Yoichi Aikawa (Rolling Sound Mastering Stuio) ; Design *Art direction & Design: Jun Misaki *Photographer: Kenji Tsukagoshi

References

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