is the debut solo

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by Japanese musician Cornelius. It was released on February 25, 1994 by

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. ''The First Question Award'' peaked at number four on the

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. Four singles were released from the album, all of which reached the top 40 on the

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: "The Sun Is My Enemy" (number 15), "Perfect Rainbow" (number 29), "(You Can't Always Get) What You Want" (number 27), and "Moon Light Story" (number 40).

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. *

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– vocals, guitar,

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Additional musicians ("Cornelius Rock 'n' Roll Orchestral Circus") * Toshio Araki – trumpet (tracks 1, 7) * Asa-Chang – percussion (track 4) * Aska Strings – strings (tracks 5, 7, 10, 11) * Shigeo Fuchino – saxophone, flute (tracks 5, 6) *

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– saxophone (track 9) * Riki Imanari – synthesizer operation * Daisuke Kawai – keyboards (tracks 2, 4–6, 9–11) * Masahiro Kobayashi – trumpet (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8–11) * Daisaku Kume – keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 7) * Osamu Matsumoto – trombone (tracks 5, 6, 8) * Mecken – bass (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9) * Toyoaki Mishima – synthesizer *

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– vocals (track 10) * Mami Otomo – vocals (track 4) * Masakuni Takeno – saxophone, flute (tracks 5–7) * Yoshié Toda – drums, percussion * Hitoshi Watanabe – bass (tracks 4, 6, 10, 11) * Nobuo Yagi – harmonica (track 4) * Hisashi Yoshinaga – saxophone, flute (tracks 6, 9) Production * Keigo Oyamada –

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* Yasunobu Arakawa –

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jammer * Osamu Hirose – mixing (tracks 5, 9) * Yoshiaki Katou – coordination * Yuka Koizumi – mastering * Ken Makimura – executive production * Tatsuhiko Mori – mixing (track 6) * Ken-Ichi Okeda – direction * Ichiro Oka – recording direction * Tohru Takayama – mixing (tracks 1–4, 7, 8, 10, 11) * Zin Yoshida – mixing (track 1) Design * Contemporary Production – design * Michio Fukuda –

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* Shindo & Tajjiemax – photography * Hiroko Umeyama – styling

Charts

References

External links

* * 1994 debut albums Cornelius (musician) albums Japanese-language albums {{1990s-electronic-album-stub