World Turbine

=Lyrics=

=Versions= The only single from this album and the first solo single. The song opens with the chanting of the Old Korean phrase "Ring the jing once and play Daechwita" (Myongumira Detsita (ミョングミラデツィタ)), used in its original context to mark the beginning of a procession. The chant first appeared on Fukō Project's "Fukō Sono Ni" (unreleased at the time, later on How about FUKO?), a correspondence experiment with 4-D's Kenji Konishi, who owns the source recording of the phrase and included it in the Fukō track. A promotional video was shot for the song, it features a mix of surreal imagery and 3D models made on an Amiga, Hirasawa appears through the video by chroma key, dressed with the costume used on the album's cover, while doing an action or holding an object, such as a light bulb (which at times is lit and at times it isn't), a fish (held as if it was a telephone) and a model car (Hirasawa used to collect model cars when younger because he liked their paint ), the Computer Graphics used in the music video were included in the PHOTON-2 video under the title "Wireframes & 2Dimensional effects". On error, the coda segues directly into "Cowboy and Indian", while on error CD, a fade-out is applied to it, since "Cowboy and Indian" was omitted from it. Only the beginning and the end of the song were included, with Hirasawa talking about the making of the Interactive Live Show in-between them. The wind synth part is played on sax, and the female vocals are in the Togawa style. Rearrangement in the P-Model style, titled "World Turbine 2". Starts out with a thunder sample, which repeats in the sampled vocal parts. From there it goes to just the synth-bassline (which goes from speaker to speaker but is mostly panned left), the synth-strings are added on top, then the beat and the song unfolds. The chorus has vocal tracks by Hirasawa in his standard range and doubled with wavering falsetto. All vocals have effects on them. The synth-string flourishes in the female vocal parts pan from speaker to speaker. After the bridge a chiptune line pops up. Hirasawa's standard range vocals have no effects applied to them. The vocal and thunder samples happen at slightly different rates than the studio version as they were played through the Graviton.
 * The Ghost in Science, 1990
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, all instruments
 * Tuan Chin Kuan - voice (sampled)
 * Kaoru Kinjo - female vocals
 * error/error CD, 1990
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, electric guitar
 * Kaoru Kinjo - female vocals (sampled)
 * Hikaru Kotobuki, Kazuhide Akimoto - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Katsuhiko Akiyama - bass, backing vocals
 * Kazutoki Umezu - wind synthesizer
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic percussion
 * Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Nurse - strings, horns
 * making of tokyo paranesian, 1994
 * TAKA - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi - fretless bass, backing vocals
 * Wataru Kamiryo - drums
 * HIRASAWA error ENGINE - Hirasawa Three Acts in Three Hours: Lower, 1994
 * Jun Togawa - female vocals
 * TAKA - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi - fretless bass, backing vocals
 * Kazutoki Umezu - alto saxophone
 * Tadahiko Yokogawa, Youko Honji - violins
 * Solar Ray, 2001
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, all instruments
 * Tuan Chin Kuan - voice (sampled)
 * Kaoru Kinjo - female vocals (sampled)
 * Live Solar Ray, 2001

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