Recochoku Early Release

Soprano Rain has been released early today on keitai site Recochoku. You can hear very brief previews of all tracks by clicking the headphones button. All the tracks sound upbeat and very much in the same vein as Good day Sunshine with the exception of the title track which uses a lot of brass sounds.

SAWA iTunes Discography

The majority of SAWA's discography is on iTunes Japan now.

After signing with Sony, many of her songs weren't digitally available. However, Sony recently took their back bar on digital downloads through iTunes so all past albums and a few compilations are up for download after the release of Good day Sunshine; as well as Mysterious Zone from last year.

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ソプラノレイン Album Cover

(Updated with a larger version. Upon closer inspection... the rain is made up of mirrorballs?!)

Updated Tracklist

According to Bellwood Records, the track-list is now as follows:

1．Good day Sunshine
2．Mysterious Zone
3．Try Again!
4．ハッピーバースデイ
5．NoLimit
6．ソプラノレイン
7．心の瞳

Soprano Rain was bumped down to track 6, and the previously untitled track is now NoLimit. That is all!

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Artists Behind Soprano Rain

Minna no Uta credits illustrator/painter/writer Emi Mariduki as an artist working with SAWA for her Soprano Rain short. She actually has written a small book with the same name. You can read it  here .

Emi Mariduki's work is beaaaautiful. Mainly using watercolor, she creates vividly colorful and surreal universes in her paintings.

 

As well as Emi Mariduki, animator Oomomo Yousuke is behind this project. Check out a lovely example of Oomomo's work below.



Also a little more info... Good day Sunshine as well as tracks 4, 5 and 6 are self-produced. On the title track, SAWA actually worked with a producer I'm not familiar with named Toshihiko Nishibe. It seems he's done work with a few anime soundtracks. Mysterious Zone was created with Jazzin' Park (who remixed Stars and produced I'm a President.) The Kyu Sakamoto cover I'm not sure on yet, but I believe it's acapella?