Cloudy Cloud Calculator is a 1997 album by Takako Minekawa

Takako Minekawa

is a Japanese musician, composer and writer.-Background:As an accomplished all-around musician, Minekawa's musical skills set her firmly outside of the J-Pop "idol" tradition: she writes and composes most of her material, singing quirky lyrics about subjects such as clouds, cats, and the color...

. It was released by Emperor Norton Records

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 in the United States

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. It is Minekawa's fourth album. Cloudy Cloud Calculator was described as one of Minekawa's "finest and most unusual moments", "highly inventive, restrained pop", and "wonderfully cute, all-synthesizer musings." Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and produced, arranged, wrote, and sang all its songs. Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The album Ximer, released in 1998, featured remixes of Cloudy Cloud Calculator by artists including Cornelius

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, Markus Popp, Sukia

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, and Michiko Endo (Citrus).

Track listing

All tracks by Takako Minekawa

Takako Minekawa

is a Japanese musician, composer and writer.-Background:As an accomplished all-around musician, Minekawa's musical skills set her firmly outside of the J-Pop "idol" tradition: she writes and composes most of her material, singing quirky lyrics about subjects such as clouds, cats, and the color...

 except were noted

1. "Micro Mini Cool" - 2:53
2. "Milk Rock" - 3:45
3. "Phonobaloon Song" - 2:32
4. "Cat House" - 3:41
5. "Cloud Chips" (Minekawa, SuGar Yoshinaga) - 2:10
6. "Kraftpark (Micro Trip Edit)" - 2:58
7. "Kangaroo Pocket Calculator" - 3:45
8. "Black Forest" (Minekawa, Silvie TV Game) - 3:41
9. "International Velvet" - 3:20
10. "Cloud Cuckoo Land" (Minekawa, Plain Vanilla) - 4:59
11. "Telstar
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    " (Joe Meek) - 4:13

Personnel

• Tetsuya Kotani – Engineer
• Takako Minekawa – Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Arranger, Drums, Guitar (Electric), Recorder, Vocals, Producer, Vocoder
• Sheila Sachs – Design
• Atsushi Tsuyama – Drums
• Mariko Yamamoto – Art Direction, Design
• Seiichi Yamamoto – Synthesizer, Arranger, Bass (Electric), Guitar (Electric), Producer, Performer
• SuGar Yoshinaga – Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Producer, Rhythm Box