Mother Earth (Maki Ohguro album)

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Mother Earth
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Studio album by Maki Ohguro
Released 9 September 1998
Recorded 1998
Genre Japanese pop
Length57:00
Label B-Gram
Producer Takeshi Hayama
Maki Ohguro chronology
Power of Dreams
(1997)		Mother Earth
(1998)		 O
(2001)
Singles from Mother Earth
  1. "Ne! ~Onna Jounetsu~"
    Released: 26 February, 1996

Mother Earth is the seventh studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 9 September 1998 under B-Gram Records. For the first time the arranger Takeshi became the main producer of this album.

J-pop, natively also known simply as pops, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional Japanese music, but significantly in 1960s pop and rock music, such as The Beatles and The Beach Boys, which led to Japanese rock bands such as Happy End fusing rock with Japanese music in the early 1970s. J-pop was further defined by new wave groups in the late 1970s, particularly electronic synth-pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra and pop rock band Southern All Stars.

Maki Ohguro is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter from Sapporo, Hokkaido under B-Gram Records label.

Contents

Album consist of the only one previously released singles, Ne! ~Onna Jounetsu~.

Two tracks out of thirteen are instrumental, composed by Maki herself and Takeshi Hayama. [1]

The album reached No. 1 in its first week on the Oricon chart. The album sold 714,000 copies. [2] This is last time when her album reached No.1 in Oricon weekly charts.

Oricon Inc., established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as Original Confidence Inc., which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter’s Oricon record charts in April 2002.

It's her last studio album released in B-Gram Records. Before moving to new label EMI Japan by Universal Music Japan, she released in 1999 her second compilation album Maki Ohguro Best of Best ~All Singles Collection~.

Track listing

All tracks arranged by Takeshi Hayama.

All lyrics written by Maki Ohguro; all music composed by Maki Ohguro (expect of #1, by Takeshi Hayama) [3] .

No.TitleLength
1."Introduction" (instrumental)0:39
2."Wake (理由)"4:39
3."Kono Yami wo Tsukinukeru (この闇を突き抜ける)"4:19
4."Sign (サ☆イ★ン)"5:23
5."Wasurete shimaitainoni (忘れてしまいたいのに)"4:12
6."Usotsuki (うそつき)"5:31
7."Suki Suki Suki (スキ・スキ・スキ)"4:34
8."Ne! ~Onna Jounetsu~ (ネッ! 〜女、情熱〜)"4:44
9."Tooi Sora de (遠い空で きっと)"4:01
10."I can't stop the rain"5:48
11."Bokura no Shiranai Tokoro de (ボクらの知らないところで)"3:15
12."Go with the wind"6:00
13."Mother Earth" (instrumental)3:12

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References

  1. ↑ "大黒摩季 Discography". maki-ohguro.com.
  2. ↑ "MOTHER EARTH | 大黒摩季". ORICON STYLE (in Japanese).
  3. ↑ "Mother Earth (大黒摩季)". Beinggiza.com.
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