Cloudy Cloud Calculator is the third studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa. It was released on December 10, 1997 by Polystar. The album was released in the United States on November 17, 1998 by Emperor Norton Records. Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and wrote, produced and arranged nearly all its songs.
Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The EP Ximer... C.C.C. Remix, released on September 23, 1998 by Polystar, features remixes of tracks from Cloudy Cloud Calculator by various artists.
Critical reception
Heather Phares of AllMusic described Cloudy Cloud Calculator as one of Minekawa's "finest and most unusual moments" and "highly inventive, restrained pop". Christian Bruno, writing in Metro, referred to the album's songs as "wonderfully cute, all-synthesizer musings".
Track listing
Personnel Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
Musicians Takako Minekawa – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, drums, electric guitar, electronic drums (Yamaha DD-7, E-mu SP-1200), güiro, recorder, synthesizer (Boss SYB-3, Casio SA-1, Casio VA-10, Minimoog Voyager, Moog Prodigy, Roland CR-5000, Six-Trak), vocoder, arrangement Yuko Aiso – violin Yumiko Ohno – bass, maracas, synthesizer (Minimoog), theremin Atsushi Tsuyama – drums Mooog Yamamoto – turntables, "bird call" Seiichi Yamamoto – acoustic guitar, electric bass, electric guitar, electronic drums, synthesizer (Roland JP-8000), arrangement Masaaki Yoshida – synthesizer Sugar Yoshinaga – arrangement
Production Takako Minekawa – production Tetsuya Kotani – engineering Masao Nakazato – mastering Seiichi Yamamoto – mixing, production Sugar Yoshinaga – production
Design Sheila Sachs – design Chikashi Suzuki – photography Mariko Yamamoto – art direction, design Mooog Yamamoto – art direction, design
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