is Susumu Hirasawa's second solo album.

Overview

''The Ghost in Science'' is marked by a whimsical, futuristic thematic in which Hirasawa paints himself as a mad scientist. It has a sound similar to other Hirasawa albums of the same era, though puts greater emphasis on electronic elements.

Track listing

All tracks are written and arranged by Susumu Hirasawa except "Fish Song", cowritten by Akiro "Kamio" Arishima with strings coarranged by Kayo "Kokubo" Matsumoto. *"QUIT" contains a sample of "Haldyn Hotel", from the album ''Water in Time and Space''.

Personnel

* Susumu Hirasawa -

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 withou ...

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 strin ...

s, bass (on "Fish Song"),

timpani Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a membrane called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally ...

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, autoharp, synthesizers, drum machine, sampler, sequencer,

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("Say" program - Dreaming Machine voice on "QUIT"), programming, arrangements, co-production,

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

;additional musicians *Tuan Chin Kuan - voice (sampled) in "World Turbine" * - female vocals on "World Turbine" *

Jun Togawa is a Japanese singer, musician and actress. Her close friends over the years include Susumu Hirasawa. Career After gaining attention a guest singer for the New Wave band Halmens and her acting roles in Japanese dramas and commercials for the ...

(courtesy of Baidis Records) -

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

on "Rocket" & "Cowboy and Indian" * (Varichef Homium) - backing vocals on "Rocket", bass on "Fish Song" *Yūichi Hirasawa, (Here is Eden), Yuji Oda, Shigeru Fujishima, Masahiro Furukawa - backing vocals on "Rocket" * - drums on "Fish Song" *Midori Ayabe, Hiroki Yamamoto, Nagisa Kiriyama and Yoshiaki Funayama -

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 regu ...

on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl" *Kaori Kurimaru and Rika Morozumi -

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on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl" *Hirohisa Miyata and Makoto Ohsawa -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C2, G ...

on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl" * Kazutoki Umezu - alto saxophone and

noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...

on "Cowboy and Indian" *Mamoru Kikuchi - Old Man's voice on "QUIT" *Hisashi " Dr. Ochanomizu" Katsuta - Laughing voice on "QUIT" *Kayo "Kokubo" Matsumoto - voice on "Techno Girl" ;technical *Akiro Kamio Arishima - production *Yoshiaki Kondo (Gok Sound) -

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& mixing engineer *Meiji Takamatsu (Mix) - second engineer ;visuals *Kiyoshi Inagaki (Asset) - art director *Naoki Wada (CG), Yosuke Komatu -

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 employe ...

*Yoshihiro Ariga - costume *Akemi Tsujitani - styling *Junko Maeda - hair & make-up ;operations *I₃ Promotion **Yūichi Kenjo - co-production, backing vocals on "Rocket" **Masami Fujii, Hiroyoshi Mitomi - artist management *Tsutomu Fukushima - stage director *Hiroki Yamaguchi - assistant *Katsuyuki Sawafuji - publicity coordination * Polydor K.K. **Kazuyoshi Aoki - A&R coordinator **Osamu Takeuchi - backing vocals on "Rocket", director ;Thanks *AC Unit, Sky Corporation, Mamoru Kimura Office, Toshikazu Tamura, Keiji Kimura, Masaya Abe, Sazaby's Furniture

Release history

*"Techno Girl" is included on the '' AD.POLICE - DRAGON TRIP'' drama CD. *"Fish Song" is the B-Side to the "Root of Spirit" single. *"Rocket" and "Fish Song" were included on the ''Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～'' compilation. *"World Turbine", "Rocket", "Fish Song", "Dreaming Machine" and "Techno Girl" were included on the ''

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, 1989-1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa'' compilation.

References

External links

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at iTunes Japan
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