Water Colors (album)

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Water Colors
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Studio album by Ayako Ikeda
Released October 9, 2002 (2002-10-09)
Recorded On Air Azabu and Studio Mia in Tokyo, 73rd St. Studio, Elegant Too Studio, Studio Invisible and The Cutting Room in New York City
Genre Pop, contemporary
Length59:42
Label Universal Japan
Producer Ritsuko Kazami, Shoehei Narabe
Ayako Ikeda chronology
Water Colors
(2002)		 Lunar Soup
(2005)

Water Colors is the first album by Japanese song writer Ayako Ikeda. It was released in Japan on October 9, 2002. This album includes her second single "Life" which is featured as the main theme for the Japanese TV drama "Ai nante iranee yo, natsu"(愛なんていらねえよ、夏). Also includes her debut single, "Yasashii Uta"(ヤサシイウタ).

Japan Constitutional monarchy in East Asia

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.

Ayako Ikeda is a Japanese song writer and singer. She is signed onto Sony Music Japan.

Single (music) type of music release usually containing one or two tracks

In the music industry, a single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record or an album. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular. In other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album.

Track listing

All lead vocals were sung by Ayako Ikeda, and arranged by Shohei Narabe.

  1. Overture - 0:46
  2. Hitotsu no Negai(ひとつの願い) - 6:10
  3. Tobenai Tori(飛べない鳥) - 4:16
  4. Life - 3:43
  5. Yasashii Uta(ヤサシイウタ) - 5:15
  6. Eternal Wind - 4:22
  7. Umi to Sora no Yume(海と空の夢) - 4:22
  8. Tsuki(月) - 4:22
  9. All Of... - 5:14
  10. Train - 4:28
  11. Motto Motto - 5:25
  12. Hikari no Hana(光の花) - 4:45
  13. Silent Bells - 6:43

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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