is the debut album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue

Yosui Inoue

is a Japanese singer, lyricist, composer, guitarist and record producer, who is an important figure in Japanese music. He is renowned for his unique tone, eccentric lyrics, and dark sunglasses which he always wears....

, released in May 1972.

Backing tracks of the album were mainly played by the instrumentalists of The Mops

The Mops

The Mops were a Japanese psychedelic rock/garage rock group active in the late 1960s and early 1970s.-History:The Mops were formed in 1966 by a group of high schoolers: Mikiharu Suzuki , Taro Miyuki , Masaru Hoshi , and Kaoru Murakami...

, and they were arranged by the group's guitarist Katz Hoshi. Hoshi continued working as an arranger for most of Inoue's studio albums released in later years.

Prior to the album, "Jinsei ga Nido Areba" came out as a single (B-Side was the album's title track which features his aggressive vocals that homage Paul and Linda McCartney's song "Monkberry Moon Delight"). Danzetsu is best-known by "Kasa ga Nai" which was released as the second single from the album. It became one of his signature songs, and later recorded by multiple artists like Off Course

Off Course

Off Course was one of Japan's most influential Folk rock bands. It was formed in early 1969 by Kazumasa Oda and Yasuhiro Suzuki（鈴木康博）. They broke up in 1989 after their February 26 farewell performance at Tokyo Dome....

, Kazuyoshi Saito, UA, Mucc

Mucc

is a Japanese visual kei rock band formed in 1997. Named after a character from the Japanese children's TV show Hirake! Ponkikki, the band is also known by the nickname 69 since "six nine" can be pronounced "muku" in Japanese...

, and Akina Nakamori

Akina Nakamori

is a Japanese pop singer and actress. She was one of the most popular singers of the 1980s in Japan. She is known for her deep, power-house voice....

. Bank Band, the charity project formed by Mr. Children

Mr. Children

, commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese rock artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan...

's frontman Kazutoshi Sakurai

Kazutoshi Sakurai

is a Japanese musician and entrepreneur. He composes and writes almost all of the songs for his band Mr. Children, in addition to writing lyrics and singing for his solo project group Bank Band. In 2006, Sakurai ranked #8 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" and in 2007 was voted #4...

 and his musical collaborator Takeshi Kobayashi, interpreted the song "Kagirinai Yokubō" on their album Soushi Souai released in 2004.

Because of his breakthrough in the following year, Danzetsu enjoyed long-term commercial success on the Japanese Oricon charts during the mid 1970s, entering there for over three years.

Side one

1. "" - 4:00
2. "" - 3:57
3. "" - 2:30
4. "" - 3:09
5. "" - 3:27
6. "" - 5:00

Side two

1. "" - 2:44
2. "" - 2:27
3. "" - 3:33
4. "" - 4:24
5. "" - 2:42
6. "" - 5:31

Personnel

• Yosui Inoue - folk guitar, vocals
• Takao Kisugi
  Takao Kisugi
  , born November 16, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese singer and composer.After the working with Yosui Inoue's band, Kisugi debuted as a singer-songwriter with single "Asai Yume", released in 1976. He became known by domestic hit in Japan, "My Luxury Night" performed by Hatsumi Shibata, Mainly in...
  
   - folk guitar
• Shigeru Hara - folk guitar
• Katz Hoshi - folk and Electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Taro Miyuki - bass guitar
• Jun Fukamachi - piano, Hammond organ
• Johnny Yamazaki - electric Piano
• Mikiharu Suzuki - drums

Album

Album	Country	Chart	Position	Weeks	Sales
Danzetsu	Japan	Oricon Weekly LP Albums Chart (top 100)	8	163	510,000+

Single

Single	B-Side	Chart	Position	Sales
"Kasa ga Nai"	"Kansha Shirazu no Onna"	Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100)	69	63,000

Release history

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog number	Notes
Japan	May 1, 1972	Polydor	LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	MR5013
	Unknown		LP LP album The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...	MR3302
	August 1, 1985		CD Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	H32P20035
	September 1, 1990			POCH-1022
	June 26, 1996			POCH-1571	Original recording digitally remastered
	December 19, 2001	Universal Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...		UPCH-1123	Original recording digitally remastered
	October 4, 2006			UPCY-6252	2001 Remaster
			LP	UPJY-9001
	December 17, 2009		SHM-CD	UPCY-6500