Smile×Smile is J-pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 artist Mayumi Iizuka's

Mayumi Iizuka

is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer who was born in Tokyo and grew up in Taiwan and Yokohama. Iizuka is a member of Gekidan Wakakusa and Tokuma Japan Communications....

 seventh album and was produced by Tore Johansson

Tore Johansson

Tore Johansson is a Swedish record producer, composer and musician based in Malmö, Sweden.-Biography:In an interview with HitQuarters, Johansson claimed that the main impetus for his becoming a music producer was the lack of good recording studios in the Malmö area at that time in which to record...

, who is a Swedish musician.

Exposition

This, Mayumi Iizuka's seventh album, was produced by Tore Johansson and has ten songs. All of the songs were written the lyrics solely by Iizuka and containing two previously released singles, i.e. "Pure" (#5) and "Kikasete yo Kimi no Koe" (#10). A few songs were composed or arranged by three Swedish musicians, including Johansson.

Also, the sleeve

Record sleeve

A record sleeve is the outer covering of a vinyl recording. The sleeve is technically the paper covering that is closest in contact to the surface of the recording, as in "dust sleeve", "liner" and "album liner". The term has come to be synonymous with "record jacket" and "album jacket", which is...

 is in a handwritten style by Iizuka in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

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Track listing

1. Kimi to Ita Memory (君といたmemory / Memory with You)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition: cota
   • Arrangement: Michiaki Kato
2. My Best Friend
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition and arrangement: Motoki Matsuoka
3. Drive Shiyou yo! (ドライブしようよ! / Let's Drive!)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition: Sora Izumikawa
     Sora Izumikawa
     , is a Japanese artist, singer-songwriter, seiyū, composer and producer currently based on Japan. Also Ex-CEO for Dog-Rights Co.,Ltd.- Biography :Born in Hiroshima, Japan to a chorister father and mother who taught electronic organ, Sora started playing the piano at the age of two...
     
     
   • Arrangement: Tore Johansson
4. Gomen ne (ごめんね / I'm sorry)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition: Ritsuko Okazaki
     Ritsuko Okazaki
     was a Japanese singer-songwriter born in Hashima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture. She first made her professional debut with the single, Kanashii Jiyū / Koi ga, Kiete Yuku.-Personal:...
     
     
   • Arrangement: Tore Johansson
5. Pure
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition and arrangement: Tore Johansson and Solveig Sandnes
6. Uniform (ユニフォーム)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition and arrangement: Wisao Yoshida
7. Party Time (パーティー☆タイム)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition: Ulf Turesson
   • Arrangement: Tore Johansson
8. Gyutto. (ぎゅっと。/ Tightly.)
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition: Kohei Dojima
   • Arrangement: Ulf Turesson
9. Dream
   • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
   • Composition and arrangement: Tomoki Hasegawa
     Tomoki Hasegawa
     is a Japanese composer and arranger of music, best known for his work on anime soundtracks, born on 19 July 1957 in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He has also done sound production work on albums for Mayumi Iizuka.-Anime:...
     
     
10. Kikasete yo Kimi no Koe (聴かせてよ君の声 / Give Me the Sound of Your Voice) S×S version
    • Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka
    • Composition: Tomoki Hasegawa
    • Arrangement: Tomofumi "Chibun" Suzuki