Suiteroom Number 1
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Suiteroom Number 1 (スイートルームナンバー1) is the full-length debut album by
Tanpopo member Rika Ishikawa
. Meant to commemorate the band's first anniversary as a unit, the release date actually came 13 months after the release of their first single. It contains all five of the band's single A-sides — "Koi no Nukegara", "Kacchoiize! JAPAN", "Ajisai Ai Ai Monogatari", "Hitorjime", and "Kurenai no Kisetsu" — plus several songs (and two opening and closing skits) centered on the "hotel room" concept of the album.
The album caps a prolific year for Ishikawa, who in the 13 months between V-u-den's first single and the release of the album, had also recorded three final singles and one last studio album (
DEF.DIVA, and became the de facto host of Hello! Project's Japanese TV show Hello! Morning
. This activity may have had something to do with the lengthy wait for V-u-den's first full-length album to see the light of day.
CD track listing
- チェックイン (Check In)
- カッチョイイゼ!JAPAN (Kacchoiize! JAPAN)
- 愛~スイートルーム~ (Ai ~Suite Room~)
- 紫陽花アイ愛物語 (Ajisai Ai Ai Monogatari)
- 恋のヌケガラ (Koi no Nukegara)
- Tea Break
- ひとりじめ (Hitorijime)
- クラクラ ディナータイム (Kurakura Dinnertime)
- クレナイの季節 (Kurenai no Kisetsu)
- 唇から愛をちょうだい (Kuchibiru Kara Ai wo Choudai)
- パジャマな時間 (Pajama na Jikan)
- まごころの道 (Magokoro no Michi)
- チェックアウト (Check Out)
Personnel
- Rika Ishikawa - lead and backing vocals, spoken word
- Erika Miyoshi - lead and backing vocals, spoken word
- Yui Okada - lead and backing vocals, spoken word
- Kotaro Egami - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- MIT Studio - sound effects on "Check In" and "Check Out"
- Hideyuki "Daichi" Suzuki - guitar, bass, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Hiroaki Takeuchi - backing vocals
- Shouichiro Hirata - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming, backing vocals
- Takanori Tsunoda - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Atsuko Inaba - backing vocals
- Ogu - backing vocals
- Akira - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming, backing vocals
- Jun Abe - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Kenji Suzuki - guitar
- Nao Tanaka - keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Yuichi Takahashi - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Shunsuke Suzuki] - guitar, keyboards, drum and MIDI programming
- Chino - backing vocals
- Ian Hartley - spoken word
- Kenny Scott - spoken word
- Isabelle Bruckert - spoken word
- Tsunku - composer, backing vocals
Recording personnel
- Nobuyasu Umemoto - recording coordination
- Kansuke Yamamoto - recording coordination
- Kazumi Matsui - recording engineer, mix engineer
- Shinnosuke Kobayashi - recording engineer
- Ryo Wakizawa - mix engineer
- Takeshi Yanagisawa - mix engineer
- Hironobu Kitajima - mix engineer
- Youhei Horiuchi - 2nd engineer
- Mitsuko Koike - mastering engineer