Toki no Nai Hotel

Toki no Nai Hotel
Studio album by Yumi Matsutoya
Released	June 21, 1980 (1980-06-21)
Genre	pop / rock
Length	45:06
Label	Toshiba-EMI/Express
Producer	Masataka Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya chronology
Kanashii Hodo Otenki (1979) Toki No Nai Hotel (1980) Surf and Snow Volume One (1980)

Toki no Nai Hotel (時のないホテル, Toki no Nai Hoteru) is the ninth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yumi Matsutoya, released in June 1980.

Pictures featured on the back and front sleeve art were taken at the Brown's Hotel in London.　No songs were released as a single except "Tamerai", which was first appeared on B-Side of a non-album track "Daydream" released in May 1980.

Like other studio albums which came out after she moved to EMI in 1977, Toki No Nai Hotel was released on CD for the first time in 1985.^[1] The album was reissued in 1999, with digitally remastered by Bernie Grundman.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yumi Matsutoya, arranged by Masataka Matsutoya.

1. "Cecile no Shūmatsu (セシルの週末, Seshiru no Shūmatsu)"– 5:26
2. "Toki no Nai Hotel (時のないホテル, Toki no Nai Hoteru)" – 4:15
3. "Miss Lonely" – 4:28
4. "Ame ni Kieta Joger^{[nb 1]} Ame ni Kieta Jogā (雨に消えたジョガー)" – 5:00
5. "Tamerai (ためらい)" – 3:46
6. "Yosoyuki Gao de (よそゆき顔で)" – 4:30
7. "5cm no Mukougishi (5cmの向こう岸, 5 Senchi no Mukougishi)" – 6:22
8. "Compartment (コンパートメント, Konpātomento)" – 7:18
9. "Mizu no Kage (水の影)" – 4:02

Footnotes

1. ↑ The term "Joger" is a misspelling of "Jogger".

Recorded versions

• "Mizu no Kage" was originally recorded by the female folk duo called Simons in 1978.
• "Tamerai" was originally written for Midori Hagio. The song was later covered by Yoshiko Miyazaki, Keiko Saito, and the ex-Pink Lady Keiko Masuda.
• Queen's Fellows, a 2002 tribute album for Matsutoya includes two cover versions of the songs which were featured on Toki no Nai Hotel; "Cecile no Shumatsu" performed by aiko and the title track by Takao Tajima.

Personnel

• Masataka Matsutoya - keyboards
• Tatsuo Hayashi - drums
• Jun Aoyama - drums
• Yuichi Tokashiki - drums
• Nobu Saito - percussion
• Kenji Takamizu - bass guitar
• Tsugutoshi Goto - bass guitar
• Masaki Matsubara - electric guitar
• Shigeru Suzuki - electric guitar
• Tsuyoshi Kon - electric guitar
• Chuei Yoshikawa - acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Hiromi Yasuda - acoustic guitar
• Masamichi Sugi - backing vocals
• Kiyoshi Saito - saxophone
• Jake H Conception - saxophone
• Shunzo Sunabara - saxophone
• Yukio Eto - flute
• Eiju Yamada - horn
• Yasuhiro Okita- horn
• Tomato Strings Unsemble - strings
• Junichi Hiiro - violin
• Leona - backing vocals
• Clara - backing vocals
• Lilika - backing vocals
• Hideki Matsutake - synthesizer programming

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