10 Wings is the album

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 by Japanese

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 singer-songwriter

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 Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, released in October 1995.

The album consists of new studio recordings of the songs which she wrote for annual experimental theatres entitled , premiered in November 1989. Some songs already appeared on her previous studio albums released in the 1990s. They were newly recorded with the different interpretations for the album. One of them, remake version of "Two of Us" features Masanori Sera, a frontman of the Twist, on lead vocals. The lead-off track "Two Boats" was used in the 1996 film Kiri no Shigosen.

Lengthy arrangements of all the songs featured on the album are thoroughly altered from its original versions. After release of 10 Wings, Nakajima has released several similar concept album

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s to date; Hi -Wings- and Tsuki -Wings (1999), and Ten-Sei (2005).

Track listing

All songs written by Miyuki Nakajima

Miyuki Nakajima

is a Japanese vocalist, guitarist, lyricist, composer and radio personality. As a principal Japanese female veteran singer-songwriter she is often compared to Yumi Matsutoya, she has released 37 studio albums, 40 singles, 2 live albums and multiple compilations to date, and whose sales have been...

, arranged by Ichizō Seo (except "Diamond Cage" co-arranged by Keishi Urata, "Two of Us" and "You Who Will Stay to Live Forever" arranged by David Campbell

David Campbell (American arranger/composer)

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)

1. "" [new recording] – 8:20

   a theme song of "Yakai", first performed on the premier in 1989

2. "" – 7:50

   a song performed on "Yakai Vol.6 Shangri-La" (1994)

3. "" – 7:21

   from "Yakai Vol.4 Kinkanshoku" (1992)

4. "Maybe" [new recording] – 6:51

   from "Yakai 1990"

5. "" [new recording] – 9:05

   from "Yakai 1990"

6. "Diamond Cage" – 7:10

   from "Yakai Vol.4 Kinkanshoku" (1992)

7. "I Love Him" – 5:45

   from "Yakai Vol.3 Kan-Tan" (1991)

8. "" – 4:15

   from "Yakai Vol.6 Shangri-La" (1994)

9. "" – 10:54

   from "Yakai Vol.6 Shangri-La" (1994)

10. "" – 5:00

    from "Yakai Vol.5 Hana no Iro wa Utsuri ni keri na Itazura ni Waga Mi Yo ni Furu Nagame seshi ma ni" (1993)

Personnel

• Miyuki Nakajima – vocals
• Tsuyoshi Kon – electric guitar
• Takahiko Ishikawa – gutguitar
• Bob Glaub
  Bob Glaub
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   – electric bass
• Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus
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   – electric bass
• Chiharu Mikuzuki – electric and stick bass
• Curt Bisquera
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   – drums
• Hideo Yamaki – drums
• John Guerin – drums
• Jun Aoyama – drums
• Toru Shigemi – keyboards
• Jon Gilutin – acoustic piano
• Shingo Kobayashi – acoustic piano, keyboards, jai winding
• Yasuharu Nakanishi- acoustic piano, keyboards, and programming(drums, percussion & bass)
• Keishi Urata – programming (drums, percussion & bass)
• Toshihiko Furumura- alto sax
• David Campbell – strings conductor
• Ichizo Seo – strings conductor
• Suzie Katayama – strings contractor
• Sid Page
  Sid Page
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   – strings concertmaster
• Masatsugu Shinozaki – electric violin
• Masatsugu Shinozaki Group – strings
• Takashi Asahi – tin whistle
• Morinoki Jidou Gasshoudan – chorus on "Two of Us"
• Masanori Sera – guest vocal on "Two of Us"
• Julia Waters – background vocals
• Maxine Waters – background vocals
• Mona Lisa Young – background vocals
• Carmen Twillie – background vocals
• Billie Barnum – background vocals
• Luther Waters – background vocals
• Oren Waters – background vocals
• Terry Wood – background vocals

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales	RIAJ Cetification
1995	Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (top 100)	8 (CDDA CDDA CDDA may refer to:* Circularly Disposed Dipole Array - a large circular antenna used by the military* Compact Disc Digital Audio - an audio recording format... )	6	219,000	Platinum
		20 (APO-CD)	3