Peachberry Explained

Peachberry
Type:	studio
Artist:	Chisato Moritaka
Cover:	Chisato Moritaka - Peachberry.jpg
Recorded:	1996–1997
Studio:	Abbey Road Studios^[1]
Language:	Japanese
Label:	One Up Music
Prev Title:	Taiyo
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	Kotoshi no Natsu wa More Better
Next Year:	1998

is the 11th studio album by Japanese singer/songwriter Chisato Moritaka, released on July 16, 1997, by One Up Music. The album marked the 10th anniversary of Moritaka's music career. A limited edition release was packaged in a cardboard box and included 13 photographs; each with lyrics to a corresponding song.^{[2] [3]}

Peachberry draws inspiration from Moritaka's love of the Beatles' music, with some of the tracks recorded at Abbey Road Studios.^[1] The song "Tony Slavin" is named after the Liverpool barber shop that the Beatles referenced in their 1967 song "Penny Lane".^[4]

The album reached No. 4 on Oricon's albums chart and sold over 322,000 copies.^{[5] [6]} It was also Moritaka's last studio album to be certified Gold by the RIAJ.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Chisato Moritaka; all music is arranged by Yuichi Takahashi, except where indicated.

Personnel

• Chisato Moritaka – vocals, drums (all tracks), tambourine (2, 10), shaker (2), timbales (6), recorder (7), accordion (7), piano (8), kalimba (8), pianica (11), clarinet (12), percussion (13)
• Yuichi Takahashi – guitar (1–2, 4–5, 7, 9–11, 13), keyboards (1–3, 5, 7–9, 11, 13)
• Shin Hashimoto – piano (1–2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13), Fender Rhodes (1, 3, 5, 8), synthesizer (2, 5, 8–9), Wurlitzer (4), guitar (7, 11), kalimba (8), taishōgoto (13)
• Shin Kōno – piano (6, 10), Fender Rhodes (6, 10), percussion (6), keyboards (10)
• Yukio Seto – bass (1–2, 4–5, 7–8, 11, 13), guitar (1–7, 9–10, 13), conga (1), shaker (1, 6), bar chimes (5, 9–10), percussion (5, 13), djembe (8–9, 11), didgeridoo (8), timbales (9)
• Masafumi Yokoyama – bass (6, 10)
• Shuhei Miyachi – bell (4)
• Toshio Araki – trumpet (6)
• Kōji Nishimura – trumpet (6)
• Masakuni Takeno – alto saxophone (6)
• Takuo Yamamoto – tenor saxophone (6, 10), flute (6)
• Masanori Hirohara – trombone (6)
• Junko Yamashiro – bass trombone (6)
• Something Else – backing vocals (2)

• Nobutaka Okubo

• Daisuke Itō

• Chihiro Imai

Certification

Notes and References

1. 森高千里LONDON未公開VideoClip ～♪出来るでしょ！！～ . Chisato Moritaka . Moritaka . Chisato . . 2012-06-15 . 2020-04-14.
2. Web site: PEACHBERRY . Kioku no Kiroku . The Federation of Music Publishers Japan . 2020-04-03.
3. Web site: 森高千里 . Idol.ne.jp . 2020-04-03.
4. 森高千里Liverpool未公開VideoClip ～♪Tony Slavin～ . Chisato Moritaka . Moritaka . Chisato . . 2012-07-14 . 2020-04-14.
5. Web site: PEACHBERRY/森高千里 . . 2020-04-02.
6. Web site: 森高千里 . Yamachan Land . https://web.archive.org/web/20110814081514/http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamag/album/al_moritaka.html . 2021-06-23. 2011-08-14 .