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Juusankai Wa Gekkou

release date: April 6, 2005
company: BMG/Funhouse
formats: CD (BVCR-11068)
initial price: ¥3059
goodies: the first copies sold were a limited edition that included a DVD containing the music video for Romance (BVCR-18045/6); this poster may have been included with first copies sold

Tracklisting

Enter Clown (Imai)
Kourin (Sakurai/Imai)
Doushin A (Sakurai/Imai)
Cabaret (Sakurai/Hoshino)
Iijin No Yoru (Sakurai/Hoshino)
Clown Loves Señorita (Imai)
Goblin (Sakurai/Imai)
Alive (Sakurai/Imai)
Gesshoku (Sakurai/Imai)
Lullaby II (Imai)
Doll (Sakurai/Imai)
Passion (Sakurai/Hoshino)
13kai (Imai)
Romance -Incubo- (Sakurai/Imai)
Seraphim (Imai/Imai)
Muma - The Nightmare (Sakurai/Imai)
Diabolo -Lucifer- (Sakurai/Imai)
Who's Clown? (Imai)

Credits

Atsushi Sakurai: vocals
Hisashi Imai: guitars, noises, electronics and chorus
Hidehiko Hoshino: guitars and chorus
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums

additional musicians:
Kazutoshi Yokoyama: manipulate, synthesizer, piano, organ, celesta and noises

all songs produced and arranged by Buck-Tick except instrumentals arranged by Imai and "Who's Clown?" arranged by Imai and Kazutoshi Yokoyama
executive producer: Shigenobu Karube (BMG Funhouse)
co-produced, recorded and mixed by: Hitoshi Hiruma
vocal directed by Junichi Tanaka (Happy House)
drum directed by: Katsushige Okazaki (Age of Punk, Lucy)
mastered by: Kotaro Kojima (Flair)
additional engineers: Yuji Sugiyama, Kenichi Arai, Koni-Yang
assistant engineers: Fuyuhiko Inui, Kiyoko Asai (Studio Sound Dali), Yo-ichi Miyazaki (Aobadai Studio), Mitsuru Shibamoto (Prime Sound Studio Form), Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Yosuke Watanabe (Victor Studio)
recorded at: Studio Sound Dali, Aobadai Studio, Prime Sound Studio Form, Victor Studio
mixed at: Prime Sound Studio Form
mastered at: Flair
drum technician & tuner: Shigeo Azami
guitar & bass technician: Kazutaka Minemori (Master Tone)

Label Staff (BMG Funhouse)
producer: Hiromi Yoshizawa
A&R: Etsuko Noguchi
chief sales promoter: Hiroshi Kawasaki
sales promoter: Katsutoshi Suzuki
visual coordinator: Kaori Wada
artist management: Takahiro Chiba (Banker)
publishing staff: Taeko Nomura (Circles Music Publishers)
management desk: Mayumi Kaneko (Banker)
B-T official FC (Fish Tank): Rumi Ikeda (Fish Tank)
art direction & design: Kazunori Akita (Cruel Circus)
photography: Hiroshi Nomura (Nomura Photograph)
hair styling & make up: Takayuki Tanizaki (Fats Berry)
costume styling: Tomoharu Yagi
styling service: Yukie Goto (Kikirarashoten)
scenery & props: Takumi Tamura
extras: Ekaterina (Free Wave), Spitt, Greg Edwards (VHS), Katope, Hajime Hirayama (BMG)
special thanks to: Fernandes, Burny, Greco, Ludwig, SCS, Miyaji Gakki, Tomoro Watanabe (VDC), Akio Matsuki (Gretsch drum office), Kiyoshi (Machine, Lucy), Asaki (Age of Punk), Mon Chan (Red Shoes), Boo! Who? Woo!, Nine Miles, Taka, Ojima, Fish Tank Members, Love & Media Portable Members and You

[this page was last updated on Friday, 22-Feb-2008 20:17:35 PST]

Notes

Ranked #4 on the album chart. 40,000 copies sold.

The single released from this album was "Romance".

This is Buck-Tick's first concept album and it is centered around one word: gothic. Hisashi came up with the idea during the tour for the previous album. It became solidified once he saw Atsushi's solo performance. It may be surprising that Buck-Tick never outright fixated upon the theme of gothic before as their influences, visuals, and music itself all touch upon gothic sensibility. As such, the band found it perhaps a surprisingly easy task to execute. The songs themselves, both the lyrics and music, touch upon other keywords such as clown, cabaret, and night. The album is divided into sections with instrumental tracks as markers.

There are 18 songs, the most Buck-Tick has ever released on a single studio album. (Though one might argue instrumentals act more as filler, or chapter dividers so they do not count as songs, per se.)

This is the third album Buck-Tick recorded at Studio Sound Dali and the fourth album recorded at Aobadai Studio. This is the first time they recorded an album at Victor Studio since Cosmos, their last album on the Victor/Invitation label.

There was a contest to send in proofs of purchase for the album and "Romance" single where winners would receive Buck-Tick original goods (contest ended May 2005).

Non-Japanese/English words in song titles: "incubo" which means "nightmare" in Italian and is also the Latin root for Incubus, (it means "I lie on top"). "Diabolo" which was probably meant to be "diablo" meaning "devil" in Spanish or "diavolo" in Italian. As a side note, diabolos are a juggling prop and sometimes when you think of juggling you think of clowns and well, clowns are a theme of the album.