Roentgen (album)

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ROENTGEN
Studio album by Hyde
Released	March 27, 2002
Recorded	2001, 2002
Genre	Rock, Pop
Length	48:36
Label	HAUNTED RECORDS, Ki/oon Records
Producer	HYDE
Hyde chronology
ROENTGEN (2002) Roentgen Overseas Version (2002)

Released March 27, 2002, Roentgen was the first solo album of popular Japanese vocalist, Hyde, released by his own label, Haunted Records, a division of Sony's Ki/oon Records, and the record was co-produced by Hyde and UK production team Ian Curnow and Dave Ford. The album leans towards the softer side of rock music, with crisp, wintery White Song and the beautiful imagery of A Drop of Colour. The beautiful, wrenching vocals that Hyde is known to pour out can be heard in Shallow Sleep or The Cape of Storms, balancing out the album.

"The Cape of Storms" is featured in the film Kagen no Tsuki: Last Quarter The song is said to be based on an Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman. "Shallow Sleep" was also featured on the U.S.-released CD The JPop CD.

Hyde's second solo album 666 is commonly thought of as the companion and opposite of Roentgen.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Unexpected"
2. "White Song"
3. "Evergreen"
4. "Oasis"
5. "A Drop of Colour"
6. "Shallow Sleep"
7. "New Day's Dawn"
8. "Angel's Tale"
9. "The Cape of Storms"
10. "Secret Letters"