Mayonaka wa Junketsu

"Mayonaka wa Junketsu"
Song

"Mayonaka wa Junketsu" (真夜中は純潔, Midnight is Pure) is Japanese singer Shiina Ringo's 6th single and it was released on March 27, 2001. The distributor is Toshiba EMI / Virgin Music.

Outline

In this single, Shiina Ringo canceled partnership with Seiji Kameda who arranged her songs together till then, and she asked the musicians of various genres to arrange her songs. She put three songs in time order like "night, daytime, and a morning" according to the title, and she showed the reading of these song titles by writing katakana.

All players of each song were named "- Paradise Orchestra" on "Mayonaka wa Junketsu" which is the title tune of this single. Shin Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (新東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ, New Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra) is a Ska band, and Higashi-Nihon Swing Paradise Orchestra (東日本スウィングパラダイスオーケストラ, East-Japan Swing Paradise Orchestra) is a big band, and Zen-Nihon Scherzo Paradise Orchestra (全日本スケルツォパラダイスオーケストラ, All-Japan Scherzo Paradise Orchestra) is the trio of a pianist, a bassist, a drummer, with accordionist coba.

"Mayonaka wa Junketsu" was to have been collected to her third album "Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana" with "Aisaika no Choushoku". However, she judged that they weren’t suitable for the view of the world of the album while she was producing that, and she shelved the adoption of the two songs for the album.

Music video

The music video was made for "Mayonaka wa Junketsu", and it was the music video of animation. The music video was filmed by live action at first. The story was that a mysterious woman fights with a baldheaded leader of a vicious secret organization, and Shina was playing the woman and Masato Minagawa, the keyboard player of her band, was playing the enemy's leader.

However, Shiina's pregnancy came to light while making a film, and it was discontinued on the way. Hurriedly, it was changed into animation. The story remained as it was and the characters which was modeled on Shiina and Minagawa were designed. Her house cat "Goethe" also appears in the music video as a cyborg cat. The heroine was named "Mayo Kiyozumi" (潔純真夜, Kiyozumi Mayo).

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Ringo Shiina; all music is composed by Ringo Shiina. Track 1 is arranged by Shin Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra. Track 2 is orchestrated by Takayuki Hattori. Track 3 is arranged by Toshiyuki Mori

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mayonaka wa Junketsu (真夜中は純潔, Chastity at Midnight)"	4:19
2.	"Sido to Hakuchūmu (シドと白昼夢, Sid & Daydreams)" (from Muzai Moratorium)	3:36
3.	"Aisaika no Chōshoku (愛妻家の朝食, The breakfast of the devoted husband)"	3:58
Total length:		11:55

Personnel

1. Mayonaka wa Junketsu

   with Shin Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (新東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ, New Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra)

   • Trumpet: ナーゴ Nargo (Kimiyoshi Nagoya)
   • Trombone: 北原雅彦 Masahiko Kitahara
   • Alto Saxophone & Agitator: 冷牟田竜之 Tatsuyuki Hiyamuta
   • Tenor Saxophone: ガモー Gamou
   • Baritone Saxophone: 谷中敦 Atsushi Yanaka
   • Piano: 沖祐市 Yuichi Oki
   • Electric Bass: 川上つよし Tsuyoshi Kawakami
   • Electric guitar: 加藤隆志 Takashi Kato
   • Percussions: 大森はじめ Hajime Ohmori
   • Drums: 茂木欣一 Kin-ichi Motegi (from Fishmans, support member)
2. Sido to Hakuchūmu

   with Higashi-Nihon Swing Paradise Orchestra (東日本スウィングパラダイスオーケストラ, East-Japan Swing Paradise Orchestra)

   • Electric guitar: 角田順 Jun Sumida
   • Double bass: 坂井紅介 Benisuke Sakai
   • Drums: 村上“ポンタ”秀一 Shuichi Murakami
   • Electric organ: 倉田信雄 Nobuo Kurata
   • Trumpet: エリック宮城 Eric Miyashiro, 佐々木史郎 Shiro Sasaki, 林雄介 Yusuke Hayashi, 佐久間勲 Isao Sakuma
   • Trombone: 中川英二郎 Eijoro Nakagawa, 松本治 Osamu Matsumoto, 佐野聡 Satoshi Sano
   • Bass Trombone: 山城純子 Junko Yamashiro
   • Alto Saxophone & flute: ボブザング Bob Zung, 近藤和彦 Kazuhiko Kondo
   • Tenor Saxophone: 小池修 Osamu Koike, 吉田治 Osamu Yoshida
   • Baritone Saxophone: 竹野昌邦 Masakuni Takeno
   • Harp: 田口裕子 Yuko Taguchi
   • Vibraphone & Glockenspiel: 浜田均 Hitoshi Hamada
3. Aisaika no Chōshoku

   with Zen-Nihon Scherzo Paradise Orchestra (全日本スケルツォパラダイスオーケストラ, All-Japan Scherzo Paradise Orchestra)

   • Piano & Programming: 森俊之 Toshiyuki Mori
   • Contrabass: 渡辺等 Hitoshi Watanabe
   • Drums: 沼澤尚 Takashi Numazawa
   • Accordion: coba Yasuhiro Kobayashi