Aqua City

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Aqua City
Aqua City cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1983 (1983-09-21)
RecordedFebruary 8, 1983 – July 18, 1983
Studio
  • Sound Inn
  • Sound City
  • Victor Aoyama
  • Nichion
  • Hitokuchizaka
  • CBS/Sony Roppongi
  • Cherry Island
  • Discomate
  • Teichiku, Tokyo
  • Take One, Tokyo
Length41:38
LabelVAP
Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe chronology
Aqua City
(1983)
River's Island
(1984)
Singles from Aqua City
  1. "Summer Suspicion"
    Released: April 21, 1983

Aqua City (Japanese: アクアシティ) is the debut album by Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, released by VAP on September 21, 1983. The album peaked at #4 on the Oricon charts.

Background and composition[]

With a blue-based design and a group of songs with a theme of summer and the sea, the public image of Omega Tribe and their connection with the summer and the sea had been established. After the debut song "Summer Suspicion" was released, the album was released immediately after entering Top 10, so it ranked in Top 5 on the Oricon chart. The total sales of the records and cassettes exceeded 100,000.

The position of the title and logo of the jacket was changed when it was made into a CD in August 1984. All subsequent reissues used the modified jacket, but when it was re-released as a MEG-CD in September 2016, it was returned to its original position. At the same time, the motif of the compass needle that was printed on the lower left of the first press of the record was also revived.[1][2]

Track listing[]

Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Summer Suspicion"Chinfa KanHayashiHayashi4:34
2."Paddling To You"Yasushi AkimotoKiyotaka SugiyamaTsugutoshi Gotō3:21
3."Midnight Down Town"AkimotoHayashiHayashi4:59
4."Light Morning"AkimotoSugiyamaShguma4:29
5."Umikaze Tsushin" (海風通信)KanHayashiHayashi4:39
Total length:22:02
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Transit In Summer"AkimotoHayashiHayashi4:25
2."Trade Wind"AkimotoSugiyamaShiguma5:47
3."Sexy Halation"KanHayashiHayashi4:34
4."Alone Again"AkimotoHayashiHayashi4:50
Total length:19:36

Charts[]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Oricon 4

Personnel[]

  • Executive Producer: Katsuhiko Endo, Atsushi Kitamura
  • Director: Shigeru Matsuhashi, Ken Shiguma
  • Sound Adviser: Tetusji Hayashi
  • Mix Engineer: Kunihiko Shimizu
  • Mix Assi.Engineer: Yoshiaki Matsuoka
  • Mix Studio: Hitone Studio
  • Recording Engineer: Kazuyuki Masumoto, Eiji Uchinuma, Tatsuo Sekine
  • Digital Mastering: SONY PCM 1610
  • Music Coordinator: Akira Kawashima
  • Artist Management: Triangle Production
  • Ad: Kuniyoshi Ukita & SUPER★GALAXY
  • Photo: Terue Ukita

References[]

  1. ^ Kondo, Masayoshi (August 3, 2016). "杉山清貴&オメガトライブ オリジナル・アルバム5タイトル 2016.8.3ハイレゾ配信 start". VAP (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 25, 2018.
  2. ^ "アクア・シティ/杉山清貴&オメガトライブ". Maniac Diary (in Japanese). November 22, 2006.
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