13/10/2025

Hiroshi Murai "Natural" (1990) -AOR / City Pop-



Label : Pioneer


Japon 01 - Off Limitな夜 (Anju Mana & Ken Sato)
02 - Video Days (Anju Mana & Takashi Tsushimi)
03 - 生粋 (じゅん) (Shota Namikawa & Takashi Tsushimi)
04 - 涙の消える場所 (Hiromi Mori & Hideya Nakazaki)
05 - 夏の隠れ家 ~Weekend Resort~ (Hiromi Mori & Hitoshi Haba)
06 - Pacific Side Hotel (Hiromi Mori & Shigemitsu Nagaoka)
07 - 光の朝 (Hiromi Mori & Hiroshi Murai)
08 - A Long Time Ago (Hiromi Mori & Hiroshi Murai)
09 - 鉄爪 (ひきがね) (Hiromi Mori & Hitoshi Haba)
10 - June・25 ~Xmasからいちばん遠い日~ (Megumi Ogura & Yoshiaki Shirai)


Produced by Ryouichi Okuda & Takashi Numata
Sound Produced by Greg Mathieson
Engineered by Don Murray, Al Philips, Saburou Nakamura, Toyomitsu Fukuda (Pioneer Ldc)
Mixed by Don Murray at Garden Rake Studio
Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering by Chris Bellman
Recorded at Garden Rake Studio, Hollywood Sound Recorders, Sound Inn Studio, Freeport Studio, Discomate, Freedom Studio, Hitokuchizaka Studio
Assistant Engineered by Gregloskorn, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Kazuhiro Yokota, Dadayuki Takiguchi, Takashi Sakane, Toshiaki Sabase, Koichirou Matsumoto
Rhythm Arrangement by Greg Mathieson, Motoki Funayama
Brass Arrangement by Jerry Hey
Chorus Arrangement by Yasuhiro Kido, Motoki Funayama
Vocal Arrangement by Takashi Numata, Eiji Yayaguchi
Production Coordinator : Koji Kilura for Music Land, Fumio Miyata for Chapter One, Kaz Yoshioka for Chapter One

Musicians :
Drums : Carlos Vega, Eiji Shimamura
Bass : Abraham Laboriel, Michio Nagaoka
Guitar : Michael Landau, Tsuyoshi Kon
Keyboards : Greg Mathieson, Rumi Kawaeazaki, Hidetoshi Yamada
Programmer : Casey Young, Hiroshi Sukegawa
Percussion : Lenny Castro, Nobu Saitoh
Trumpet & Flugelhorn : Jerry Hey, Gary Grant
Saxophone : Marc Russo
Chorus : Yasuhiro Kido, Kiyoshi Hiyama, Eve, Hiroshi Murai