Under The Sun (Yosui Inoue Album)

''Under the Sun'' is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in September 1993.

Two songs "Gogatsu no Wakare" and "Make-Up Shadow" were released as a single prior to the album, and the latter became a massive hit.

"Make-Up Shadow" was featured as the theme song for ''Subarashikikana Jinsei'', a television drama aired on Fuji TV. The music was composed by Jun Sato (who used the pseudonym Utsuru Ayame), and Inoue wrote the lyrics. The song became the highest-charting single for Inoue, reaching number-two on the Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles charts, selling in excess of 800,000 copies. Sato also arranged the song, and his arrangement won him a prize at the 35th Japan Record Awards.

The album debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon, and became his fifth chart-topping non-compilation album since ''9.5 Carats'' released in 1984.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yosui Inoue (except where indicated)
#"Be-Pop Juggler" - 3:10
#"Eleven" - 4:43
#"" - 4:37
#"Power Down" - 4:42
#"Make-up Shadow" (Utsuru Ayame/Inoue) - 4:07
#"" (Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Inoue) - 5:34
#"" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 4:28
#"" (Inoue/Jun Satō/Yasushi Akimoto) - 5:50
#"" - 5:06
#"Under the Sun" - 5:41
#"" (Inoue/Banana-UG-Kawashima) - 4:06

Personnel

*Yosui Inoue - Lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar
*Jun Sato - Piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals
*Banana-UG-Kawashima - Synthesizer, piano
*Yoshinobu Kojima - Organ, piano
*Yasuharu Nakanishi - Piano
* Yasuhiro Kobayashi - Accordion
*Tsuyoshi Kon - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar
*Susumu Osada - Electric guitar
*Haruo Kubota - Electric guitar
*Koki Ito - Bass guitar
*Chiharu Mikuzuki - Bass guitar
*Hiroshi Igarashi - Auto harp, banjo, steel drums
*Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion, kalimba
*Nobu Saito - Percussion
*Hideo Yamaki - Drums
*Jun Aoyama - Drums
*Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
*Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
*Taro Kiyooka - Trombone
*Hidefumi Toki - Clarinet
*Aska Strings (conducted by Aska Kaneko) - Strings
*Ma*To - Computer programming
*Keishi Urata - Computer programming
*Hideki Matsutake - Computer programming
*Naoki "Taro" Suzuki - Drums programming
*Seri - Background vocals
*Nisa - Background vocals
*Anna - Background vocals
*Eve - Background vocals

Production

*Arranger: Yosui Inoue (#1,4), Jun Sato (#5,6,8,9), Tsuyoshi Kon (#2), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#3,11), Yasuharu Nakanishi (#7), Haruo Kubota (#10)
*Composer: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #5,6), Utsuru Ayame (#5), Kyohei Tsutsumi (#6), Natsumi Hirai (#7), Jun Sato (#8), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#11)
*Lyricist: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #9), Yasushi Akimoto (#9)
*Mixing Engineer: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Tendo, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuta Kagema
*Recording Engineer: Jun Tendo, Junichi YAmazaki, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuji Kuraishi, Kazuya Yoshida, Kazuya Miyazaki
*Session Support Engineer: Kenji Igarashi, Yutaka Uematsu, Motoyoshi Komine, Junichi Hohrin, Yuko Suzuki, Hajime Nagai, Kenji Matsunaga, Kaoru Matsuyama
*Mastering Engineer: Toru Kotetsu, Masayoshi Nakajo
*Art/Styling: Sachico Ito
*Photographer: Kenji Miura
*Artwork producer: Noriko Shimoyama
*Artwork designer:Shuzo Hayashi
*Artwork supervisor: Tomio Watanabe
*Artwork: Hiroshi Shoji
*Promotion Staff: Mitsuo Sakauchi, Yasuhide Sasa
*Production Coordinator: Sei Sato, Takashi Yokoo, Yasuko Makino, Chiharu Senoma
*Production Manager: Nao Funatsu
*Production Assistant: Hidenori Muto, Rie Nishioka, Satoko Ishizaki

Chart positions

Album

Singles

Release history

References

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1993 albums
Yōsui Inoue albums