Kaikinetsu

Kaikinetsu
Studio album by Miyuki Nakajima
Released November 15, 1989
Recorded Burnish Stone, Epicurus, Music Inn, Sound Valley (Tokyo, Japan)
Genre folk rock, pop, kayokyoku
Length 48:30
Language Japanese
Label Pony Canyon/AARD-VARK, Yamaha Music Communications
Producer Ichizō Seo, Miyuki Nakajima
Miyuki Nakajima chronology
Goodbye Girl
(1988)
Kaikinetsu
(1989)
Yoru wo Yuke
(1990)

Kaikinetsu (回帰熱 "Recurrent Fever") is the 17th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in November 1989. Like some of her previous efforts (Okaerinasai and Oiro Naoshi), it comprises the materials that she wrote for other singers.

The album features three top-ten hit singles. Among them, "Haru Nanoni" was recorded by pop idol Yoshie Kashiwabara in 1983. It became Kashiwabara's most successful single after her breakthrough "Hello Goodbye", peaking at #6 on the Japanese Oricon chart.[1] Nakajima's contribution won the 25th Japan Record Awards for the "Best Songwriting Prize".[2] "Lonely Canary" is one of Kashiwabara's subsequent materials written by Nakajima, released in 1985 and charted at #9.[1] The lead-off track, "Kōsa ni Fukarete," was recorded by Shizuka Kudō and released as a single 2 months before Kaikinetsu came out. Nakajima had previously contributed the lyrics for her records, including two chart toppers "Fu-Ji-Tsu" and "Mu-Go,n...Iroppoi". "Kōsa ni Fukarete" also reached the summit of the Oricon shortly after its release, becoming the fifth of Kudo's eight consecutive #1 hit singles.[3] In Japan, it became one of the biggest hits of 1989 with sales of over 580,000 copies, winning the 4th RIAJ Gold Disc Awards for "The Best Five Singles of Year" category.[4][5]

Following the smash hit single interpreted by Kudo, Kaikinetsu sold better than other Nakajima's albums released in the late 1980s. On the Japanese Oricon Year-end chart of 1990, it was placed at the 99th best-selling album.[6]

Track listing

All songs arranged by Ichizō Seo

No. TitleWriter(s)Original performer (release year) Length
1. "Kōsa ni Fukarete (黄砂に吹かれて)"  Miyuki Nakajima, Tsugutoshi GotōShizuka Kudō (1989) 5:51
2. "Katahaba no Mirai (肩幅の未来)"  Nakajima, Kyōhei TsutsumiYoko Nagayama (1989) 5:18
3. "Ari, ka (あり、か)"  NakajimaIchiro Tanaka and Yoshihiro Kai (1988) 5:45
4. "Gunshū (群衆)"  Nakajima, GotoShizuka Kudo (1988) 5:46
5. "Lonely Canary (ロンリー・カナリア Ronrī Kanaria)"  NakajimaYoshie Kashiwabara (1985) 5:01
6. "Kurayami Otome (くらやみ乙女)"  NakajimaReiko Sada (1989) 4:45
7. "Ceremony (儀式 (セレモニー) Seremonī)"  NakajimaNoriko Matsumoto (1986) 4:46
8. "Mikansei (未完成)"  NakajimaHiroko Yakushimaru (1987) 6:15
9. "Even in the Spring (春なのに Haru Nanoni)"  NakajimaYoshie Kashiwabara (1983) 5:04

Personnel

Chart positions

Chart (1989/90) Position Weeks Sales
Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)[7] 2 11 210,000+

References

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