Aqua City

Aqua City (Japanese: アクアシティ) is the debut album by Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe, released by VAP on September 21, 1983. The album peaked at #4 on the Oricon charts.

Aqua City
Studio album by
Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1983 (1983-09-21)
RecordedFebruary 8, 1983 – July 18, 1983
Studio
  • Sound Inn
  • Sound City
  • Victor Aoyama
  • Nichion
  • Hitokuchizaka
  • CBS/Sony Roppongi
  • Cherry Island
  • Discomate
  • Teichiku, Tokyo
  • Take One, Tokyo
Length41:38
LabelVAP
Kiyotaka Sugiyama & Omega Tribe chronology
Aqua City
(1983)		 River's Island
(1984)
Singles from Aqua City
  1. "Summer Suspicion"
    Released: April 21, 1983

Background and composition

With a blue-based design and a group of songs with a theme of summer and the sea, the public image of Omega Tribe and their connection with the summer and the sea had been established. After the debut song "Summer Suspicion" was released, the album was released immediately after entering Top 10, so it ranked in Top 5 on the Oricon chart. The total sales of the records and cassettes exceeded 100,000.

The position of the title and logo of the jacket was changed when it was made into a CD in August 1984. All subsequent reissues used the modified jacket, but when it was re-released as a MEG-CD in September 2016, it was returned to its original position. At the same time, the motif of the compass needle that was printed on the lower left of the first press of the record was also revived.[1][2]

Track listing
Side A
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Summer Suspicion"Chinfa KangTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:34
2."Paddling To You"Yasushi AkimotoKiyotaka SugiyamaTsutoshi Goto3:21
3."Midnight Down Town"Yasushi AkimotoTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:59
4."Light Morning"Yasushi AkimotoKiyotaka SugiyamaKenzo Shikuma4:29
5."Umikaze Tsushin" (海風通信)Chinfa KangTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:39
Total length:22:02
Side B
No.TitleLyricsMusicArrangementLength
1."Transit In Summer"Yasushi AkimotoTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:25
2."Trade Wind"Yasushi AkimotoKiyotaka SugiyamaKenzo Shikuma5:47
3."Sexy Halation"Chinfa KangTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:34
4."Alone Again"Yasushi AkimotoTetsuji HayashiTetsuji Hayashi4:50
Total length:19:36

Charts
Chart (1983) Peak
position
Oricon 4

Personnel
  • Executive Producer: Katsuhiko Endo, Atsushi Kitamura
  • Director: Shigeru Matsuhashi, Ken Shiguma
  • Sound Adviser: Tetusji Hayashi
  • Mix Engineer: Kunihiko Shimizu
  • Mix Assi.Engineer: Yoshiaki Matsuoka
  • Mix Studio: Hitone Studio
  • Recording Engineer: Kazuyuki Masumoto, Eiji Uchinuma, Tatsuo Sekine
  • Digital Mastering: SONY PCM 1610
  • Music Coordinator: Akira Kawashima
  • Artist Management: Triangle Production
  • Ad: Kuniyoshi Ukita & SUPER★GALAXY
  • Photo: Terue Ukita

References
  1. Kondo, Masayoshi (August 3, 2016). "杉山清貴＆オメガトライブ オリジナル・アルバム5タイトル 2016.8.3ハイレゾ配信 start". VAP (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 25, 2018.
  2. "アクア・シティ／杉山清貴＆オメガトライブ". Maniac Diary (in Japanese). November 22, 2006.
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