Moon: Wings

Moon: Wings
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released November 3, 1999
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording and A&M Recording Studios, Cello Studios(Los Angeles,US), Epicurus Studio (Tokyo, JP)
Genre Folk rock
Length 50:03
Label Pony Canyon/AARD-VARK, Yamaha Music Communications
Producer Ichizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Be Like My Child (Watashi no Kodomo ni Narinasai)
(1998)
Moon: Wings
(1999)

Sun: Wings
(1999)
Short Stories (Tanpenshū)
(2000)

Moon: Wings (月-WINGS Tsuki -Uingusu?) is the 27th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima.

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

Moon is Nakajima's least successful studio album in terms of sales, entering the Japanese charts for less than 1 month. It became the final album released by her long-term label Pony Canyon, because she moved to newly-founded semi-independent record label Yamaha Music Communications in the following year.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Pain" arranged by David Campbell).

  1. "Jasmine (1人で生まれて来たのだから Hitori de Umarete Kita no Dakara?)" – 5:05
  2. "A Scarlet River (紅い河 Akai Kawa?)" – 6:22
  3. "Last Scene" – 6:25
  4. "Sweet Poison (女という商売 On-na to Iu Shoubai?)"– 4:16
  5. "Smile, Smile" – 5:23
  6. "Pain" – 8:04
  7. "White Chrysanthemum (白菊 Shiragiku?)" – 4:54
  8. "Statute of Limitation (時効 Jikou?)" - 4:16
  9. "Far Away from Love (愛から遠く離れて Ai kara Tōku Hanarete?)" – 5:18

Personnel

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalog number
Japan November 3, 1999 Pony Canyon CD PCCA-01380
APO-CD PCCA-01381
November 21, 2001 Yamaha Music Communications CD YCCW-00032
November 5, 2008 YCCW-10079

Chart positions

Year Chart Position Weeks Sales
1999 Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100) 19 (CDDA)[1] 3 46,000+[2]
27 (APO-CD)[3] 2

References