Carnation (Ringo Sheena song)
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| Single by Ringo Sheena | ||||
| from the album Hi Izuru Tokoro | ||||
| B-side | "Watashi no Aisuru Hito" "Jinsei wa Omoidōri" |
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| Released | October 21, 2011 | |||
| Format | CD Single, digital download | |||
| Recorded | 2011 | |||
| Genre | Torch song, waltz, pop | |||
| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | EMI Music Japan | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ringo Sheena | |||
| Producer(s) | Ringo Sheena | |||
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"Carnation" (Japanese: カーネーション Hepburn: Kānēshon), also known by its French title L'œillet ("The Carnation" in English), is a song by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on November 2, 2011, two years after her previous solo single "Ariamaru Tomi" (2009), during a period where she primarily worked with her band Tokyo Jihen. The song was the eponymous theme song for the morning Asadora drama Carnation, starring Machiko Ono.
In 2009, Sheena released the solo single "Ariamaru Tomi" and the album Sanmon Gossip after mostly focusing on her band, Tokyo Jihen. Since then, Tokyo Jihen released their fourth studio album, Sports, the single "Sora ga Natteiru" / "Onna no Ko wa Dare Demo" (2011) and their fifth studio album Dai Hakken (2011).
The project began when Shin Yasui, music supervisor for the film Sakuran that Sheena had worked together with, recommended her for the team working on Carnation.
Originally, Sheena was asked to create an upbeat song for the drama. As the drama was set in Kansai, Sheena decided to similarly give the song a Kansai feel, and created the song "Jinsei wa Omoidōri." However, after reading the script and watching the stop-motion sequence Koichiro Tsujikawa created for the opening, she decided an entirely different song with a universal feel would be better suited. This led to the creation of "Carnation."
When she first created the melody, she added a harp backing to the demo. This lead her to ask her frequent collaborator, conductor Neko Saito to work on the song as well. The song was recorded with a 40-person orchestra, led by Saito and concert master Great Eida. Even though she was asked as a soloist to create the theme song, Sheena wanted to include her band Tokyo Jihen in the process. Hence, Sheena invited the members to perform the backing tracks and instruments for the songs on the single. Sheena had wanted the song to be released as a single by the band, however the staff involved with the drama specifically requested the song be under her solo stage name. The lyrics were completed at the very end of the song creating process, after the song arrangement.
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