Absolute Ego
by ACO
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 December 1999
- Label: Speedstar
- Country: Japan
- Length: 55:43
- Community rating: 3.56/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
ACO's third album, on which the Japanese singer moved from guitar pop toward trip hop and art pop textures. 'Absolute Ego', released by Speedstar, wraps her soft vocals in downtempo electronics and lush arrangements.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, velvety, downtempo, gentle, dreamy
Tracklist
- Prologue (0:39)
- Yorokobini Saku Hana (6:30)
- Spleen (5:50)
- Aishita Anatawa Tsuyoi Hito (4:42)
- Black Maybe (4:44)
- Kyomadeno Yuutsu (4:35)
- Natsuno Hi (3:52)
- Amenohino Tameni (4:35)
- Intensity (You Are) (4:06)
- Aishu To Ballad (4:48)
- Hitotsuno Kumori (4:17)
- Absolute Ego (0:46)
- Taiyo (6:19)
Credits
- Akiko Susuki - other [international affairs]
- Azako Nakahara - other [international affairs]
- Kono Shin - arranged by [strings], arranged by, keyboards
- Takeo Sasada - arranged by [additional]
- Chieko Kinbara - violin [1st solo violin]
- Honzi - violin [2nd solo violin]
- Shiro Sagisu - arranged by [strings]
- Masayoshi Furukawa - arranged by, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Shinichi Akagawa - recorded by, mixed by, edited by [vocal ttreatment & pro tools]
- Toshihiko Miyoshi - recorded by, edited by [additional vocal treatment], recorded by [vocals]
- Takuya Yamada - art direction, design
- Masaki Obinata - directed by, coordinator [recording co-ordination]
- Shigeaki Tanaka - directed by, coordinator [recording co-ordination]
- Takaki Itoh - engineer [assistant], engineer [assitant]
- Tetsuya Sugimoto - engineer [assistant], engineer [assitant]
- Masami Konagaya - engineer [assitant], engineer [assistant]
- Stevie Wonder - words by, music by
- Nandanee Ramprasad - words by, music by
- Jun Hosoya - a&r
- Kenji Mori - a&r
- Loumi Kawai - coordinator [recording co-ordination (paris)]
- Tomoko Tsuneda - illustration
- Tomomi Izumi - management [secretary]
- Yasuji Maeda - mastered by
- Toshiyuki Hamauchi - engineer [assitant]
- Masashi Hashimoto - recorded by
- Steven Barkan - mixed by
- Masahiro Kawaguchi - recorded by [strings]
- Jeff Ginouv猫s - recorded by [vocals]
- Naoki Uehata - engineer [assistant]
- Kazuo Ohnuki - engineer [assistant]
- Mirwais - recorded by [vocals]
- Mitsuru Yoneyama - engineer [assistant]
- Tetsuhiro Miyajima - recorded by
- Kazuaki Uchikado - engineer [assistant]
- Takeshi Kitaoka - engineer [assistant]
- Ichizo Nishikawa - mixed by