Mikazuki Sunset
| "Mikazuki Sunset" | |
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2003 concert venue single release by Dutchman
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| Song by Sakanaction from the album Go to the Future | |
| Released | May 9, 2007 |
| Recorded | 2007 |
| Genre | Techno, electronica, post-rock |
| Length | 3:47 |
| Label | BabeStar Label |
| Writer(s) | Ichiro Yamaguchi |
| Language | Japanese |
| Producer(s) | Sakanaction |
"Mikazuki Sunset" (Japanese: 三日月サンセット Hepburn: Mikazuki Sansetto?, "Crescent Moon Sunset") (Japanese pronunciation: [mikazɯki sansetːo]) is a song written by Japanese musician Ichiro Yamaguchi. Originally released as a concert-exclusive single in 2003 by his high school band Dutchman, it was the leading promotional song from Yamaguchi's major label band Sakanaction's debut studio album Go to the Future.
In 1998, Ichiro Yamaguchi while attending high school in Sapporo formed Dutchman, a rock band inspired by British rock. Yamaguchi acted as the band's vocalist and primary songwriter. In 2002, the band released Demonstration, an album compiled of seven demos the band recorded between 2000 and 2002.
"Mikazuki Sunset" was a song Yamaguchi wrote while still living at his family home in Tomioka-chō, Otaru, and was written for a girl he liked called Hanako. He wrote the song's words at the same time as the music, and was inspired by there actually being a crescent moon in the sky that night. In late 2002, the band began performing "Mikazuki Sunset", which had a markedly different approach, featuring techno-inspired electronic samples and synths, instead of the band's typical rock sound. It was originally performed with a rock sound, but Yamaguchi felt that a purely rock arrangement did not create the imagery he wanted to express, and incorporated dance music. On October 27, 2003, the song was released by the band as a single exclusively sold at concert venues. Yamaguchi's experiments with electronic samples caused the band to break up, due to creative differences.
In 2004, Yamaguchi took the name Dutchman for his solo project, where he created dance music and worked as a DJ. When Yamaguchi was asked to create remix of the song "Shiranami Top Water" for the compilation album Music for Pardisco in 2004, he found it difficult to create the entire song by himself. This led him to ask Dutchman guitarist Motoharu Iwadera to start working with him again, and the pair created the band Sakanaction. After three additional members of the band joined, Sakanaction made their major debut in 2007, with the album Go to the Future. Yamaguchi re-arranged "Mikazuki Sunset" so many times since its original incarnation without any particular goal in mind, so that when the band finally recorded the Go to the Future studio take, Yamaguchi had a sense of true accomplishment.
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