Midnight Zoo (album)

is the 37th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Miyuki Nakajima, released in October 2010.

None of the songs appeared on the album was released as a single. Instead, two of previous released materials were featured as bonus tracks; her own interpretation of the song "Snow Umbrella" originally recorded by Shizuka Kudo in 2008, and new recording of her recent single "Just Save Love" released in 2009. The song "It's a Dream" was simultaneously covered by Makichang (then-23-year-old female singer-songwriter who've contracted with Nakajima's management office). Her version was released as a double A-Side single with her original composition "Anata no Inai Heya ni Nareru Hi ga Kuru Made" by VAP Records.

Midnight Zoo debuted at No. 5 on the Japanese Oricon Weekly albums chart, making Nakajima the first female solo artist to have had the country's top-10 charting albums in five consecutive decades – three male musicians have already set this record; Eric Clapton, Eikichi Yazawa and Masashi Sada. The album has sold over 40,000 copies as of December 2010.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Miyuki Nakajima, arranged by Ichizo Seo (except M1/10 co-arranged by Satoshi Nakamura, and M11 co-arranged by Shingo Kobayashi) "" – 5:09 "" – 7:13 "" – 4:26 "" – 4:19 "" – 6:51 "" – 5:26 "" – 4:11 "" – 4:28 "" – 6:13 "" – 5:42 Bonus tracks "" – 6:00 "" (album version) – 6:26

Personnel

Miyuki Nakajima – Lead and background vocals

Kenny Aronoff – Drums

Vinnie Colaiuta – Drums

Neil Stubenhaus – Electric bass

Michael Landau – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Michael Thompson – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, flat mandolin

Dean Parks – Acoustic guitar

Nozomi Furukawa – Electric guitar

Jon Gilutin – Acoustic piano, electric piano, keyboards, hammond organ

Shingo Kobayashi – Acoustic piano, keyboards, synth programming

Mataro Misawa – Percussion

Shuichiro Terao – Percussion loop

Shigeo Fuchino – Saxophone

Satoshi Nakamura – Saxophone

Taro Shizuoka – Trombone

Shiro Sasaki – Trumpet

Ittetsu Gen – Violin

Maki Nagata – Violin

Daisuke Kadowaki – Violin

Crusher Kimura – Violin

Takao Ochiai – Violin

Nobuko Kaiwa – Violin

Kaoru Kuroki – Violin

Kenta Kuroki – Violin

Yoshiko Kaneko – Violin

Choi Song-il – Violin

Naoko Ishibashi – Violin

Makiko Murakoshi – Violin

Yuichi Endo – Violin

Hiroki Muto – Violin

Izumiko Fujiie – Violin

Soki Nagaoka – Violin

Rei Yokomizo – Violin

Kyoko Ishigame – Violin

Asako Sugano – Violin

Takayuki Oshikane – Violin

Yoko Fujinawa – Violin

Takuya Mori – Viola

Shoko Miki – Viola

Kaori Morita – Cello

Tomoki Iwanaga – Cello

Ichizo Seo – Background vocals

Fumikazu Miyashita – Background vocals

Yuiko Tsubokura – Background vocals

Kazuyo Sugimoto – Background vocals

Julia Waters – Background vocals

Maxine Waters – Background vocals

Oren Waters – Background vocals

Chart positions

Release history

References

2010 albums

Miyuki Nakajima albums