A straight magnificent ballad that Chihiro Onitsuka is famous for. "When the way home is lost, where will one go tomorrow?"
[2009-07-22]
Losing a distance
Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
Produced by Masayuki Sakamoto
Piano and Hammond organ: Masayuki Sakamoto
Bass: Hideki Matsubara
Drums: Nobuo Eguchi
Electric and acoustic guitars: Nozomi Furukawa
[2009-10-28]
ラストメロディー - Last Melody
Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
Produced by Masayuki Sakamoto
Piano: Masayuki Sakamoto
Bass: Chiharu Mikuzuki
Drums: Noriyasu "Kaasuke" Kawamura
Electric guitar and bouzouki: Susumu Nishikawa
An evanescent, lyric love song that is full of sadness.
[2009-05-20]
蛍 - Hotaru (Firefly)
Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
Produced and arranged by Masayuki Sakamoto
Piano: Masayuki Sakamoto
Drums: Nobuo Eguchi
Fretless bass: Hideki Matsubara
Gut guitar and bouzouki: Nozomi Furukawa
Strings: Gen Ittetsu Strings
Violins: Gen Ittetsu, Maki Nagata, Takuya Mori, Daisuke Kadowaki
Viola and violin: Yoshiko Kaneko
Viola: Yuko Kajitani
Cellos: Kaori Morita, Akina Karasawa
The theme of a Japanese film Last Game—Saigo no Sokeisen (The Last Baseball Game Between Waseda University and Keio University; http://www.lastgame-movie.jp/)—which gives a picture of students who were killed in a battle during World War II. This fantastic ballad has been picked up by the film's production staff from the collection of her unreleased songs.
"Hotaru," which sings about the evanescence and strength of love and life, is Chihiro's first song that is produced by Mr. Masayuki Sakamoto, who is known as the producer of Ayaka Hirahara's "Jupiter" as well as Hideaki Tokunaga's VOCALIST series.
Chihiro, as a kanji fetish, loves the shape of "蛍" as well as its sound. "Hotaru" was finished in March 2007 and recorded in January 2008. It's a five-minute novel or film.
[2008-08-05]
VENUS
Music and lyrics: Chihiro Onitsuka
Produced by Masayuki Sakamoto
Piano: Masayuki Sakamoto
Fretless bass, mandolin and bouzouki: Hitoshi Watanabe
Drums: Noriyasu "Kaasuke" Kawamura
Electric guitar, mandolin and bouzouki: Susumu Nishikawa
Daf: Motoya Hamaguchi
Harp: Tomoyuki Asakawa
Strings: Gen Ittetsu Strings
Violin: Gen Ittetsu, Yoshiko Kaneko, Maki Nagata, Daisuke Kadowaki