Sun: Wings
Studio album by
Miyuki Nakajima
ReleasedNovember 3, 1999
Studio
GenreFolk rock
Length55:23
LabelPony Canyon/AARD-VARK, Yamaha Music Communications
ProducerIchizo Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Be Like My Child (Watashi no Kodomo ni Narinasai)
(1998) 		Sun: Wings
(1999) 		Moon: Wings
(1999)

Sun: Wings (日-WINGS, Hi -Uingusu) is the 26th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima.

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

Nakajima had a duet with Fumikazu Miyashita on the third track "Into a Dream Someday", a song arranged by David Campbell who also worked on most of Nakajima's albums recorded in the 1990s. Likewise, on the sixth track "I Don't Know Your Language", Campbell's spouse Raven Kane was featured on vocals.

To promote the album, a music video of the lead-off track was filmed. However, along with its follow-up, Sun became one of Nakajima's least successful albums in terms of sales. After those albums were released, she left the Pony Canyon which she had belonged to since debut.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except "Into a Dream Someday" arranged by David Campbell).

  1. "Bamboo Song (竹の歌, Take no Uta)" – 5:53
  2. "Never Cry over Spilt Milk" – 5:33
  3. "Into a Dream Someday (いつか夢の中へ, Itsuka Yume no Naka e)" – 4:49
  4. "Sheep's Words (羊の言葉, Hitsuji no Kotoba)" – 4:54
  5. "A Foreign Woman (異国の女, Ikoku no On-na)" – 6:25
  6. "I Don't Know Your Language (あなたの言葉がわからない, Anata no Kotoba ga Wakaranai)" – 8:34
  7. "Shipwrecked (難破船, Nanpasen)" – 5:31
  8. "An Acquaintance, a Friend, a Mistress, or a Wife to Be (知人･友人･愛人･家人, Chijin, Yūjin, Aijin, Kajin)" – 4:17
  9. "Good Morning, Ms. Castaway" – 4:22
  10. "In the Swirls of Time (明日なき我等, Asu Naki Warera)" – 5:55

Personnel

Chart positions

Year Chart Position Sales
1999 Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100) 18 (CDDA)[1] 49,000+[2]
26 (APO-CD)[3]

Release history

Country Date Label Format Catalog number
Japan November 3, 1999 Pony Canyon CD PCCA-01378
APO-CD PCCA-01379
November 21, 2001 Yamaha Music Communications CD YCCW-00031
November 5, 2008 YCCW-10078

References

  1. ^ 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for CDDA edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)
  2. ^ "- Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) – Albums Chart Daijiten – Miyuki Nakajima" (in Japanese). December 30, 2007. Archived from a-中島みゆき the original on June 19, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2009. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ 中島みゆき-リリース-ORICON STYLE-ミュージック "(Highest position and charting weeks for APO-CD edition of Sun: Wings by Miyuki Nakajima)". oricon.co.jp. Oricon Style. Retrieved December 5, 2009. ((cite web)): Check |url= value (help)
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