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Phew

Himitsu no Knife

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

Yoshihide Otomo: 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: Kev
Cover photography: Akira Kitajima
Inner photogprahy: Motoi Ohnishi

Released 1995