studio album
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by Japanese recording artist
Alisa Mizuki
is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. Mizuki is represented by the talent agency Vision Factory. Born in Nerima, Tokyo to Japanese-American parents, Mizuki began modelling for magazines and appearing in commercials at the age of four.
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, released through Avex Tune on May 25, 2011. It is Mizuki's second studio album with Avex and first in twelve years, since ''
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Background
Mizuki began planning the release of her sixth studio album in 2010. The theme for the album being bonds, Mizuki invited her musician friends and favorite artists to collaborate with her on the record.
Miwa Yoshida
is a Japanese musician, and the lead singer for the band Dreams Come True. She is also a founding member with bassist Masato Nakamura and keyboardist Takahiro Nishikawa.
Yoshida also fronts a Dreams Come True side-project, Funk the Peanuts, ...
and Masato Nakamura of Dreams Come True, whose music has in the past been used in movies and commercials starring Mizuki, wrote "Anata ga Waraeba," one of the album's lead tracks. Nakamura commented, "we wanted the song to have that obvious DoriKamu sound that even we haven't done in a while." Frequent collaborator
Tetsuya Komuro
is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of the ...
Bonnie Pink
, known by her stage name Bonnie Pink, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. She writes and composes all her songs, and plays guitar and piano. Asada has said that the name Bonnie Pink is random and has no special meaning; she chose it b ...
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Kishidan
, which means "The Knights", are a Japanese rock band. They have a retro image, wearing Japanese school uniforms in the style of bōsōzoku. The lead singer, Sho Ayanokoji (often styled as "Show Ayanocozey"), was DJ Ozma, until he retired in De ...
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Spontania
is a Japanese hip-hop/reggae group. The name "Spontania" comes from the English word "spontaneous".
In 2010, singer Kaori Natori became the permanent vocalist for the band.
Members
*Massattack (マサタック ''masatakku'' ?)
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Lecca
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, rapper
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Def Tech
Def Tech is a Japanese pop band signed to 2VOX Ltd, an independent label.
Career
Jesse, the vocalist from Rize, named the band, the members of which did their own songwriting, arranging, and production. Def Tech had the 3rd best-selling album ...
, Kyōko Koizumi, and Ohashi Trio. Kawamura's contribution, " Hoshi no Hate," which served as theme song for the TBS drama ''Hanawake no Yon-shimai'', starring Mizuki herself, was released as the album's sole single on August 17, 2011.
In a press release issued in April 2011, Mizuki spoke about the album's completion:
Release and promotion
Mizuki filmed two music videos for the songs "Alisa in Wonderland" and "Will Love" to promote the album. She performed the lead tracks of the album on several TV programs, including ''
Hey! Hey! Hey!
''Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ'' was a Japanese music variety show on Fuji Television hosted by the comedy duo Downtown, which consists of Hitoshi Matsumoto and Masatoshi Hamada. It is a very popular show with comical hosts who like to pick on thei ...
'', ''Coming Soon!!'', and ''Music Japan''. She also appeared on NTV's ''Music Lovers'', where she performed a mini-concert for the audience.
Mizuki held her first formal live concert in nearly seven years to commemorate her twenty-year anniversary. The concert was held at Shibuya Eggman in Tokyo on May 15, the release date of Mizuki's "Densetsu no Shōjo." Mizuki performed a five-song set for 3,000 fans and held a special handshake event afterwards for 50 fans selected through random lottery. On performing her debut song, on which she was accompanied by Amii Ozaki, Mizuki commented, "It's been twenty years and I'm thrilled. I'm glad I grew up to be a 'legendary woman'."
Mizuki held a second concert on June 5, this time to commemorate the release of the album. She performed eleven songs, including her past hits "Too Shy Shy Boy!," " Eden no Machi," and " Happy Wake Up!," as well as songs from ''SpeciAlisa''. Ozaki was once again in attendance and joined Mizuki for the performances of "Densetsu no Shōjo" and "Jewel." Other special guests included, Wise, Tarantula (Spontania), 369, and Micro (Def Tech). At the end of the concert Mizuki commented, "to be able to perform these songs with the people that helped create them is a pleasure," and expressed her gratification for the past two decades.
Commercial performance
''SpeciAlisa'' debuted at number 46 on the
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...
Daily Albums chart on May 24, 2011. It peaked at number 72 on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart with 1,617 copies in its first week. The album charted for two weeks and has sold a total of 2,306 copies.