Under the Sun (Yosui Inoue album)

Under the Sun is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in September 1993.

Two songs "Gogatsu no Wakare" and "Make-Up Shadow" were released as a single prior to the album, and the latter became a massive hit.

"Make-Up Shadow" was featured as the theme song for Subarashikikana Jinsei, a television drama aired on Fuji TV. The music was composed by Jun Sato (who used the pseudonym Utsuru Ayame), and Inoue wrote the lyrics. The song became the highest-charting single for Inoue, reaching number-two on the Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles charts, selling in excess of 800,000 copies. Sato also arranged the song, and his arrangement won him a prize at the 35th Japan Record Awards.

The album debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon, and became his fifth chart-topping non-compilation album since 9.5 Carats released in 1984.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Yosui Inoue (except where indicated)
 * 1) "Be-Pop Juggler" - 3:10
 * 2) "Eleven" - 4:43
 * 3) "Mizugameza no Yoru (水瓶座の夜)" - 4:37
 * 4) "Power Down" - 4:42
 * 5) "Make-up Shadow" (Utsuru Ayame/Inoue) - 4:07
 * 6) "Canadian Accordion (カナディアン アコーデオン)" (Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Inoue) - 5:34
 * 7) "Kagi no Kazu (鍵の数)" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 4:28
 * 8) "Stoic (ストイック)" (Inoue/Jun Satō/Yasushi Akimoto) - 5:50
 * 9) "Go-gatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" - 5:06
 * 10) "Under the Sun" - 5:41
 * 11) "Nagai Hanashi (長い話)" (Inoue/Banana-UG-Kawashima) - 4:06

Personnel

 * Yosui Inoue - Lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar
 * Jun Sato - Piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals
 * Banana-UG-Kawashima - Synthesizer, piano
 * Yoshinobu Kojima - Organ, piano
 * Yasuharu Nakanishi - Piano
 * Yasuhiro Kobayashi - Accordion
 * Tsuyoshi Kon - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar
 * Susumu Osada - Electric guitar
 * Haruo Kubota - Electric guitar
 * Koki Ito - Bass guitar
 * Chiharu Mikuzuki - Bass guitar
 * Hiroshi Igarashi - Auto harp, banjo, steel drums
 * Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion, kalimba
 * Nobu Saito - Percussion
 * Hideo Yamaki - Drums
 * Jun Aoyama - Drums
 * Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
 * Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
 * Taro Kiyooka - Trombone
 * Hidefumi Toki - Clarinet
 * Aska Strings (conducted by Aska Kaneko) - Strings
 * Ma*To - Computer programming
 * Keishi Urata - Computer programming
 * Hideki Matsutake - Computer programming
 * Naoki "Taro" Suzuki - Drums programming
 * Seri - Background vocals
 * Nisa - Background vocals
 * Anna - Background vocals
 * Eve - Background vocals

Production

 * Arranger: Yosui Inoue (#1,4), Jun Sato (#5,6,8,9), Tsuyoshi Kon (#2), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#3,11), Yasuharu Nakanishi (#7), Haruo Kubota (#10)
 * Composer: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #5,6), Utsuru Ayame (#5), Kyohei Tsutsumi (#6), Natsumi Hirai (#7), Jun Sato (#8), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#11)
 * Lyricist: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #9), Yasushi Akimoto (#9)
 * Mixing Engineer: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Tendo, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuta Kagema
 * Recording Engineer: Jun Tendo, Junichi YAmazaki, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuji Kuraishi, Kazuya Yoshida, Kazuya Miyazaki
 * Session Support Engineer: Kenji Igarashi, Yutaka Uematsu, Motoyoshi Komine, Junichi Hohrin, Yuko Suzuki, Hajime Nagai, Kenji Matsunaga, Kaoru Matsuyama
 * Mastering Engineer: Toru Kotetsu, Masayoshi Nakajo
 * Art/Styling: Sachico Ito
 * Photographer: Kenji Miura
 * Artwork producer: Noriko Shimoyama
 * Artwork designer:Shuzo Hayashi
 * Artwork supervisor: Tomio Watanabe
 * Artwork: Hiroshi Shoji
 * Promotion Staff: Mitsuo Sakauchi, Yasuhide Sasa
 * Production Coordinator: Sei Sato, Takashi Yokoo, Yasuko Makino, Chiharu Senoma
 * Production Manager: Nao Funatsu
 * Production Assistant: Hidenori Muto, Rie Nishioka, Satoko Ishizaki