Traveling

by Hikaru Utada

Traveling cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 28 November 2001
  • Label: EMI
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 27:39
  • Community rating: 4.06/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A remarkably smooth, deep house-infused J-pop track that marked a sonic evolution for Utada Hikaru. Accompanied by an ambitious, surreal music video directed by Kazuaki Kiriya, the single dominated the Japanese charts and affirmed their position as an innovative force in contemporary pop.

Genres

Descriptors: travel, rhythmic, melodic, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. traveling (5:14)
  2. traveling - PLANITb remix (10:32)
  3. traveling - Bahiatronic Mix (6:38)
  4. traveling - Karaoke (5:14)

Credits

  • Kei Kawano - arranged by, programmed by, keyboards, guitar [sample]
  • Kazuhide Tsunemi - programmed by [synthesizer]
  • Tatsuya Kawakami - tracking by
  • Kiriya Kazuaki - art direction, photography by
  • Namaiki - art direction, design
  • Atsushi Matsui - recorded by, mixed by [assistant]
  • Russell McNamara - producer, remix
  • 紀里谷和明 - art direction, photography
  • Andy VanDette - mastered by
  • Masao Nakazato - mastered by
  • Miyake Akira - producer
  • Teruzane Sking Utada - producer
  • Masaaki Ugajin - recorded by
  • Goh Hotoda - mixed by
  • Michael T. Martin - coordinator [remix]
  • Yuzuru Tomita - remix

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