Naoko Gushima - Quiet Emotion (1997)

One of the urban and smooth 90's JAPANESE GROOVE that is gaining interest in the recent trend of city pop-AOR re-evaluation. Produced and arranged by Toshihiro Kirigaya "" bobby "", Akira Okazawa (b), Takashi Numazawa (ds), Jimmy Earl (b), Paul Jackson, Jr. (g), Masahiro Itami (g), Masayoshi Furukawa ( g), Yasuharu Nakanishi (key), Hiroki Kanbara (perc), Rafael Padilla (perc) ... The well-made performances of Northern Soul-Jazz-funk manners by top musicians spun the groove, and Naoko Gushima's Snuggle up to delicate and flat vocals.
Almost all songs except one song are composed by Naoko Gushima, which shows Naoko Gushima's will and reality, which was never mentioned as a so-called "diva system".
Includes her representative song "Tell me oh mama" and its remix, "no.no.no." "So high So high", and bossa "Sunday" which was also used as a commercial song. Includes a self-cover "September Sea" of songs provided to other artists as a bonus track.