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Phew

Himitsu no Knife

(ALIDA/Creativeman Disc., CMDD-00010) (Japan) (CD)

  1. watashi to kimi no wakareme (5:37)
  2. osoi haru (5:56)
  3. himitsu no knife (5:54)
  4. isoganakereba (5:02)
  5. hana ga kireina wake (8:05)
  6. owari no ato (3:02)
  7. mienai michi (4:23)
  8. hito no nisemono (2:57)
  9. kireina hi (4:22)
  10. itsuka (7:03)
  11. kyo no nagori (2:08)

All lyrics: Phew
Music: Kondo (2, 3, 7); Phew (10); Yamamoto (11); Kondo, Nishimura, Yamamoto and Uemura (1, 4, 8, 9); Etoh, Kondo, Nishimura, Yamamoto and Uemura (5); and Phew, Kondo, Nishimura, Yamamoto and Uemura (6)

Phew: vocal
Tatsuo Kondo: keyboards, programming, percussion, backing vocal
Yusuke Nishimura: bass guitar, percussion, backing vocal
Masahiro Uemura: drums, percussion

Otomo Yoshihide: turntables (4, 5, 10, 11), guitar (10), backing vocal (4)
Hiroyuki Nagashima: sampler, synthesizer (1, 2, 9)
Kazuhiro Namekawa: backing vocal (4)
Toshiharu Tai: backing vocal (4)
Sachiko Matsubara: backing vocal (4)
Tsuguto Tsunoda: backing vocal (4)

Recorded and mixed at GOK SOUND and Snail Shell in May and June 1995
Produced by Phew and Tatsuo Kondo
Co-produced by Toshiharu Tai
Engineered by Yoshiaki Kondo and Tatsuo Kondo
Mastered by Yoshiaki Kondo at KOJIMA RECORDINGS in July 1995
Art direction and design by Kev
Cover photography by Akira Kitajima
Inner photogprahy by Motoi Ohnishi

Released in 1995