Cloudy Cloud Calculator
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Cloudy Cloud Calculator is the third studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa. It was released on December 10, 1997 by Polystar.[1] The album was released in the United States on November 17, 1998 by Emperor Norton Records.[2] Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and wrote, produced and arranged nearly all its songs.[3]
Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The EP Ximer... C.C.C. Remix, released on September 23, 1998 by Polystar,[4] features remixes of tracks from Cloudy Cloud Calculator by various artists.[5]
Critical reception
Heather Phares of AllMusic described Cloudy Cloud Calculator as one of Minekawa's "finest and most unusual moments" and "highly inventive, restrained pop".[6] Christian Bruno, writing in Metro, referred to the album's songs as "wonderfully cute, all-synthesizer musings".[7]
Track listing
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Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[8]
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Musicians
- Takako Minekawa – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, electric guitar, electronic drums (Yamaha DD-7, E-mu SP-1200), güiro, recorder, synthesizer (Boss SYB-3, Casio SA-1, Casio VA-10, Minimoog Voyager, Moog Prodigy, Roland CR-5000, Six-Trak), vocoder, arrangement
- Yuko Aiso – violin
- Yumiko Ohno – bass, maracas, synthesizer (Minimoog), theremin
- Atsushi Tsuyama – drums
- Mooog Yamamoto – turntables, "bird call"
- Seiichi Yamamoto – acoustic guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, electronic drums, synthesizer (Roland JP-8000), arrangement
- Masaaki Yoshida – synthesizer
- Sugar Yoshinaga – arrangement
Production
- Takako Minekawa – production
- Tetsuya Kotani – engineering
- Masao Nakazato – mastering
- Seiichi Yamamoto – mixing, production
- Sugar Yoshinaga – production
Design
- Sheila Sachs – design
- Chikashi Suzuki – photography
- Mariko Yamamoto – art direction, design
- Mooog Yamamoto – art direction, design
References
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