Sun: Wings

Sun: Wings
Sun: Wings
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released	November 3, 1999
Studio	Ocean Way (Hollywood); A&M (Los Angeles); Cello (Hollywood); Epicurus (Tokyo);
Genre	Folk rock
Length	55:23
Label	Pony Canyon/AARD-VARK, Yamaha Music Communications
Producer	Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology

Sun: Wings (日-WINGS, Hi -Uingusu) is the 26th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima.

In November 1999, it was simultaneously released with another album Moon: Wings which has a similar concept. Both albums contain the songs written for the series of Yakai, which had been her conventional plays performed over each December from 1989 through 1998.

Nakajima had a duet with Fumikazu Miyashita on the third track "Into a Dream Someday", a song arranged by David Campbell who also worked on most of Nakajima's albums recorded in the 1990s. Likewise, on the sixth track "I Don't Know Your Language", Campbell's spouse Raven Kane was featured on vocals.

To promote the album, a music video of the lead-off track was filmed. However, along with its follow-up, Sun became one of Nakajima's least successful albums in terms of sales. After those albums were released, she left the Pony Canyon which she had belonged to since debut.

Track listing edit

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Into a Dream Someday" arranged by David Campbell).

"Bamboo Song (竹の歌, Take no Uta)" – 5:53
"Never Cry over Spilt Milk" – 5:33
"Into a Dream Someday (いつか夢の中へ, Itsuka Yume no Naka e)" – 4:49
"Sheep's Words (羊の言葉, Hitsuji no Kotoba)" – 4:54
"A Foreign Woman (異国の女, Ikoku no On-na)" – 6:25
"I Don't Know Your Language (あなたの言葉がわからない, Anata no Kotoba ga Wakaranai)" – 8:34
"Shipwrecked (難破船, Nanpasen)" – 5:31
"An Acquaintance, a Friend, a Mistress, or a Wife to Be (知人･友人･愛人･家人, Chijin, Yūjin, Aijin, Kajin)" – 4:17
"Good Morning, Ms. Castaway" – 4:22
"In the Swirls of Time (明日なき我等, Asu Naki Warera)" – 5:55

Personnel edit

Kenny Aronoff – drums
Gregg Bissonette – drums, cymbals
Hideo Yamaki – cymbals
Lee Sklar – bass
Bob Glaub – bass
Neil Stubenhaus – bass
Michael Thompson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Donald Ferrone – bass
Chiharu Mikuzuki – bass
Micheal Fisher – percussion
Yasuharu Nakanishi – keyboards, synth bass
Elton Nagata – keyboards
Ichizo Seo – keyboards
Jon Gilutin – keyboards, acoustic piano, electric piano, programming, pad, Indian pipe
Shingo Kobayashi – keyboards, programming
Keishi Urata – programming, drum-loop, percussion loop, sound effect
Seiichi Takubo – programming, drum-loop, percussion loop, sound effect
Manabu Ogasawara – programming, drum-loop
Yosuke Sugimoto – programming
David Campbell – strings conducting
Suzie Katayama – strings conducting, cello, accordion
Larry Corbett – cello
Daniel Smith – cello
Steve Richards – cello
Oscar Meza – cello, bass
Sid Page – violin (concertmaster), fiddle
Joel Derouin – violin (concertmaster)
Eve Butler – violin
Berj Garabedian – violin
Armen Garabedian – violin
Gerrardo Hilera – violin
Mario De Leon – violin
Erza Kliger – violin
Susan Charman – violin
John Wittenberg – violin
Murray Adler – violin
Michele Richards – violin
Edmund Stein – violin
Brian Leonard – violin
Robert Peterson – violin
Peter Kent – violin
Ruth Bruegger – violin
Virginia Frazier – violin
Robert Becker – viola
Matt Funes – viola
Scott Haupert – viola
Denyse Buffum – viola
Matthew Funes – viola
Renia Koven – viola
David Stenske – viola
Karie Prescott – viola
Sheridon Stokes – recorder
Earle Dumler – oboe
Kazuyo Sugimoto – lead and backing vocals
Fumikazu Miyashita – harmony and backing vocals
Julia Waters – backing vocals
Maxine Waters – backing vocals
Oren Waters – backing vocals
Yoko Kubota – backing vocals
Katsumi Maeda – backing vocals
Yoshihiko Shibata – backing vocals
Midori Sakaeda – backing vocals
Tatsuo Ogura – backing vocals
Gen-ichiro Nakajima – backing vocals
Koujiro Takizawa – backing vocals
Kazuaki Anzai – backing vocals
Rick Logan – backing vocals
John Batdorf – backing vocals
Joe Pizzulo – backing vocals
Raven Kane Campbell – vocals

Chart positions edit

Year	Chart	Position	Sales
1999	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	18 (CDDA)^[1]	49,000+^[2]
1999	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100)	26 (APO-CD)^[3]	49,000+^[2]

Release history edit

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number
Japan	November 3, 1999	Pony Canyon	CD	PCCA-01378
	November 3, 1999	Pony Canyon	APO-CD	PCCA-01379
	November 21, 2001	Yamaha Music Communications	CD	YCCW-00031
	November 5, 2008	Yamaha Music Communications	CD	YCCW-10078

References edit

^ 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for CDDA edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ "- Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). December 30, 2007. Archived from a-中島みゆき the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for APO-CD edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[OriconCDDA-1] 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for CDDA edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[Japanese_album_chart-2] "- Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). December 30, 2007. Archived from a-中島みゆき the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

[OriconAPO-3] 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for APO-CD edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)

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