Makoto Matsushita First Light
2019 Vinyl
Prog Rock
Jazz-Rock
Fusion
AOR

Main image
Warner Music Japan, HMV Record Shop
a&r Yoshikazu Ozawa
art direction, design Hiroshi Takahara
artwork Tsutomu Kizawa
bass, fretless bass Yasuo Tomikura
chorus Eiji Kawamura
chorus Eve
chorus Hidetoshi Yamada
chorus Kazuo Nobuta
chorus Makoto Matsushita
chorus Toshio Oguri
concertmaster [concert mastered by] Takashi Kato
conductor Naochika Yamamoto
coordinator [artwork coordination] Masayo Kuroda
directed by Katsuhisa Kawakita
drums Masahiro Miyazaki
electric piano [fender rhodes] Masato Matsuda
electric piano [fender rhodes], piano [acoustic] Hidetoshi Yamada
electric piano [fender rhodes], piano [acoustic], synthesizer [prophet 5] Kazuo Nobuta
engineer [engineered by], mixed by Eiji Uchinuma
flugelhorn Susumu Kazuhara
lead vocals, guitar Makoto Matsushita
management [musicians management] C. M. C.
management [musicians management] Makoto Ibe
music by [songs by], arranged by [arrangements by] Makoto Matsushita
percussion Makoto Kimura
photography by Kaoru Ijima
producer Makoto Matsushita
producer Toshio Oguri
production manager [production control] Kahoru Asai
production manager [production control] Nagi Nishimoto
production manager [production control] Yasuyuki Mori
programmed by [synthesizer programming] Yuji Oyamada
remastered by Atsuhiro Sakamoto
strings Joe Kato Group
synthesizer [obx], effects Haruo Togashi
Phonographic Copyright (p) Warner Music Japan Inc.
Manufactured By Warner Music Japan Inc.
Distributed By Lawson Entertainment, Inc.
Produced For Uni-Japan Music Inc.
Recorded At Nichion Studio
Mixed At Nichion Studio
Mastered At Uni-Japan Music Inc.
Published By Uni-Japan Music Inc.
Pressed By Optimal Media GmbH
2019 Reissue by Warner Music Japan.

All songs and arrangements by Makoto Matsushita.
Engineered and Mixed by Eiji Uchinuma & staff of Mixers' Laboratory.
Recorded and mixed at Nichion Studio, Tokyo.
Recorded from 24 December 1980 - 19 May 1981.

Produced by Makoto Matsushita & Toshio Oguri for UNI JAPAN MUSIC Inc.

Original pressing released in 1981 by Air Records. Later re-released in 1982 by Moon Records with an English version of Track A4, September Rain. No obi originally. Track B5 is included as a bonus.

96kHz/24bit remaster engineered by Atsuhiro Sakamoto (Saionkoh).

Jacket printed in Japan. Disc is made in the EU.

Track A3 Resort For Blue misspelled as Resort For Blie on album insert.
Barcode: 4943674297542 (Obi)
Rights Society: JASRAC
Matrix / Runout: BJ73131-01 A1 1= 5054197411120 (Side A, '1=' mirrored)
Matrix / Runout: BJ73131-01 B1 1= 5054197411120 (Side B, '1=' mirrored)



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