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ACO
Absolute Ego
Album JP 1999 on Ki/oon label
Electronic, R&B/Soul and Pop (Downtempo, Experimental)
First issue in a card gatefold sleeve. comes with a full-size sticker, black paper booklet and an inner card CD sleeve with song credits. Artwork oriented so the spine is at the top. Mastered at Bernie Grundman Mastering Tracks 1, 2, 12 & 13: Mixed at Y Sunahara's Studio Track 4: Mixed for Def Mix Productions and Platinum Audio, NYC at Quad Studios, NYC; Strings recorded at Victor Aoyama Studios; Vocals recorded at Ferber Studios, Paris Track 5: Recorded & Mixed at Maruni Studio Track 6: Recorded & mixed at Y Sunahara's Studio; Vocals Recorded at Sony Music France Track 7: Mixed at Artworks Track 9: Mixed at Cottonbelly Studio NY Track 10 & 11: Mixed at Farm ⓟ© 1999 Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc. Manufactured by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan), Inc.
Musicians
 | ACO voc, key, *1977 JP music by, words by, producer, album by, recorded by, sound effect |
 | Tomomi Izumi management, secretary |
| Akiko Susuki other, international affairs |
| Azako Nakahara other, international affairs |
 | Kono Shin key, *1964 JP arranged by, strings, arranged by, keyboards |
 | Yoshinori Sunahara key, producer, arranged by, programmed by, mixed by, producer, arranged by, programmed by, recorded by, mixed by, producer, programmed by, mixed by, music by |
 | Kinbara Strings , strings |
 | Takeo Sasada , arranged by, additional |
 | Masami Konagaya , engineer, assitant |
 | Takaki Itoh , engineer, assitant |
| Toshiyuki Hamauchi , engineer, assitant |
| Hideki Yamashita , producer, programmed by |
 | Chieko Kinbara vn, *1964 JP violin, 1st solo violin |
 | Honzi , JP violin, 2nd solo violin |
 | Shiro Sagisu key, syn, p, *1957 arranged by, strings |
 | Jonathan Maron b, eb, US electric bass |
 | Satoshi Tomiie ep, key, JP producer, arranged by, piano, rhodes suitcase, keyboards, korg trinity, programmed by, drum |
| Masahiro Kawaguchi , recorded by, strings |
 | Jeff Ginouvès , FR recorded by, vocals |
 | Masayoshi Furukawa g, acg, bj, *1964 JP arranged by, electric guitar, acoustic guitar |
 | Genta perc, dr, percussion |
 | Stevie Wonder syn, *1950 US words by, music by |
 | Takahiro Watanabe key, JP programmed by, arranged by, keyboards, keyboards, arranged by, programmed by |
 | Mirwais g, voc, perc, syn, *1960 FR recorded by, vocals |
 | Koichiro Naka dr, drums |
 | Takayoshi Matsunaga b, cb, *1958 JP electric bass |
 | Shinichi Akagawa , edited by, vocal ttreatment & pro tools |
 | Stuart Matthewman sax, g, *1960 GB producer, performer, programmed by, words by, music by |
 | Toshihiko Miyoshi , recorded by, vocals |
| Nandanee Ramprasad , words by, music by |
| Toru Tanaka , drums, acoustic |
 | Yuji Okiyama b, bvoc, voc, eb, JP electric bass |
 | Kenji Furuya voc, JP electric guitar |
| Ken Ogata , producer, programmed by |
 | Vagabond Suzuki b, eb, *1956 JP double bass, upright bass, stick |
| Tetsuya Sugimoto , engineer, assitant |
 | Genichi Tamura stg, st-d, steel drums, steel pan |
Producers
| Jun Hosoya a&r |
| Kenji Mori a&r |
| Takuya Yamada art direction, design |
| Loumi Kawai coordinator, recording co-ordination (paris) |
| Masaki Obinata directed by, coordinator, recording co-ordination |
| Shigeaki Tanaka directed by, coordinator, recording co-ordination |
| Tomoko Tsuneda illustration |
| Yasuji Maeda mastered by |
| Takaki Itoh engineer, assistant |
| Tetsuya Sugimoto engineer, assistant |
| Shinichi Akagawa recorded by, mixed by |
| Yoshinori Sunahara recorded by |
| Toshihiko Miyoshi recorded by, edited by, additional vocal treatment |
| Masashi Hashimoto recorded by |
| Tetsuya Ochiai concertmaster |
| Satoshi Tomiie mixed by |
| Steven Barkan mixed by |
| Naoki Uehata engineer, assistant |
| Kazuo Ohnuki engineer, assistant |
| Masami Konagaya engineer, assistant |
| Hideki Yamashita producer |
| Mitsuru Yoneyama engineer, assistant |
| ACO backing vocals |
| Stuart Matthewman backing vocals, mixed by |
| Tetsuhiro Miyajima recorded by |
| Kazuaki Uchikado engineer, assistant |
| Ken Kitaoka engineer, assistant |
| Nishikawa Ichizo mixed by |
Album Tracks 
| No | |
Title | Artist | Composer | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Prologue | ACO | 0:39 | |
| 2 | | 悦びに咲く花 | ACO | 6:30 | |
| 3 | | Spleen | ACO | 5:51 | |
| 4 | | 愛したあなたは強いひと -The Director’s Cut- | ACO | 4:42 | |
| 5 | | Black Maybe | ACO | 4:44 | |
| 6 | 今日までの憂鬱 | ACO | 4:35 | ||
| 7 | 夏の陽 | ACO | 3:52 | ||
| 8 | 雨の日の為に | ACO | 4:35 | ||
| 9 | Intensity (You Are) | ACO | 4:06 | ||
| 10 | 哀愁とバラード | ACO | 4:48 | ||
| 11 | ひとつのくもり | ACO | 4:24 | ||
| 12 | Absolute Ego | ACO | 0:46 | ||
| 13 | 太陽 | ACO | 6:19 |
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