The Stars
Today, EP
Will
Perfect Place To Hideaway (LP)
Perfect Place To Hideaway (CD)
Live in Kyoto 2006 (Digital)
Will (2024 Remaster)
Perfect Place To Hideaway (2025 Remaster)
Today, EP
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Today | 9:15 |
| 2. | Bavard | 4:29 |
| 3. | Wind in Three Quarter | 5:56 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vo, Guitar | |
| Michio Kurihara | Lead Guitar | |
| Ken Ishihara | Drums | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Soichiro Nakamura | Hammond | On Bavard |
All songs written by Y. Ishihara, except 2 by Y. Ishihara/M. Kurihara
Produced by You Ishihara
Engineer: Soichiro Nakamura
Recorded at Peace Music, 2000
Chiyo Kamekawa by courtesy of MIDI inc.
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| P.S.F. Records | PSFD-1001 | Japan | CD | 2001 | ||
Will
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Everlasting Daylight | 6:26 |
| 2. | Small White Wonder | 3:58 |
| 3. | Twinkle Outside | 8:14 |
| 4. | End of a Year | 12:24 |
| 5. | Last Door | 5:02 |
| 6. | Orange Hour Circle | 6:21 |
Produced by You Ishihara & The Stars
Engineered by Souichiro Nakamura
Recorded at Peace Music, 2003-2004
All songs written by You Ishihara
Except: 5 by Chiyo Kamekawa, 6 by Michio Kurihara
Special Thanks: Noriyuki Ando, Johan Wellens
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vo, G | |
| Michio Kurihara | G Synth | 6 |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | B | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Ds | |
| Souichiro Nakamura | Organ Effect Edit | 4 3 |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records | PDL-0402 | Japan | CD | 2004 | ||
Perfect Place To Hideaway (LP)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Side A | ||
| 1. | Subway (aka Night Walker) | |
| 2. | Lemonade | |
| 3. | Electron Spin Carnival | |
| Side B | ||
| 1. | Double Sider | |
| 2. | Ice Blues | |
| 3. | The World I Left Behind | |
Produced by You Ishihara
Engineered by Souichiro Nakamura
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocal & Guitar | |
| Michio Kurihara | Guitar | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Drums | |
| Guest Musician | ||
| Souichiro Nakamura | Fender Rhodes/Organ | |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records | PDL-0503 | Japan | LP | 2005 | Ltd 500 | |
Perfect Place To Hideaway (CD)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Subway (aka Night Walker) | 11:22 |
| 2. | Double Sider | 8:52 |
| 3. | Lemonade | 7:48 |
| 4. | Electron Spin Carnival | 3:03 |
| 5. | Ice Blues | 9:46 |
| 6. | The World I Left Behind | 3:42 |
| All Lyrics by You Ishihara | |
| Songs Written by | You Ishihara on M-1, 2 & 5 |
| Michio Kurihara on M-4 & 6 | |
| The Stars on M-3 | |
| Recording Engineer: Soichiro Nakamura | |
| Produced by You Ishihara | |
| Photographer: Hitoshi Kato | |
| Art Director: You Ishihara | |
| Artwork: Yasunobu Arakawa | |
| Thanks to: | Yoichi "KINTA" Kikuchi, Johan Wellens, |
| Satoshi Yamai (Terrapin), Ando Little | |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocal, Guitar Drums | M-5 |
| Michio Kurihara | Guitar | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Drums, Percussion | |
| Guest Musician | ||
| Soichiro Nakamura | Organ Fender Rhodes | M-1 |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records | PDL-0504 | Japan | CD | 2005 | ||
Live in Kyoto 2006 (Digital)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Subway (aka Nightwalker) | 18:22 |
| 2. | Twinkle Outside | 8:04 |
| 3. | Last Door | 4:41 |
| 4. | New Dawn | 8:14 |
| 5. | Double Sider | 8:28 |
| 6. | Small White Wonder | 4:31 |
| 7. | Night Sun | 8:07 |
| 8. | Today | 11:07 |
| 9. | Secrets | 9:08 |
| Total | 81:25 | |
Recorded live at Jittoku, Kyoto Nov 2006.
| The Stars were formed in 1999 after the breakup of White Heaven. Here's soundboard recording of their live performance in Kyoto, Jittoku in November 2006 has been unearthed. |
| The members are You Ishihara (Vo, Gt), Michio Kurihara (Gt), Chiyo Kamekawa (Bass, from Yura Yura Teikoku), Yasunobu Arakawa (Dr). |
| "New Dawn", "Night Sun" and "Secrets" are unreleased songs that were not included in their studio album. |
| The second half of the song "Today" has been supplemented with an air sound source because the master sound source was not recorded. Please understand. |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocal, Guitar | |
| Michio Kurihara | Vocal, Guitar | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Drums | |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records Bandcamp | Japan | Digital | 2021 | |||
Will (2024 Remaster)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Everlasting Daylight | 6:26 |
| 2. | Small White Wonder | 3:58 |
| 3. | Twinkle Outside | 8:14 |
| 4. | End of a Year | 12:24 |
| 5. | Last Door | 5:02 |
| 6. | Orange Hour Circle | 6:21 |
| 7. | Fuzzy Alert (demo outtake) | 5:23 |
| 8. | Last Door (inst. version demo outtake) | 5:05 |
| Three years after their debut EP "TODAY" on P.S.F. Records, their first full-length album "WILL", released in 2004, has been remastered by Soichiro Nakamura of Peace Music and is now available for the first time officially digitally. |
| The dramatic masterpiece "Everlasting Daylight" reflects the super-loud sound of their stage at the time, while "Small White Wonder", which is like a nuclear explosion of late’70s New York punk and psychedelic disaster, to the hypnotic and novel sound approach in "Twinkle Outside", which could make your brain go numb. |
| The album also includes two additional bonus tracks from studio outtakes from the same period, the completely unreleased "Fuzzy Alert " and the instrumental version of "Last Door" (both demo versions). |
released April 5, 2024
Produced by You Ishihara & The Stars
Engineered by Souichiro Nakamura
Recorded at Peace Music, 2003-2004
All songs written by You Ishihara
Except: 5 and 8 by Chiyo Kamekawa, 6 and 7 by Michio Kurihara
All lyrics by You Ishihara
Remastered by Soichiro Nakamura 2024
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocal & Guitar Cymbal+Percussions | 4 |
| Michio Kurihara | Guitar Synthesizer | 6 |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Drums | |
| Souichiro Nakamura | Organ Effect Edit | 4 3 |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records Bandcamp | Japan | Digital | 2024 | |||
Perfect Place To Hideaway (2024 Remaster)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Subway (aka Night Walker) | 11:22 |
| 2. | Double Sider | 8:52 |
| 3. | Lemonade | 7:48 |
| 4. | Electron Spin Carnival | 3:03 |
| 5. | Ice Blues | 9:46 |
| 6. | The World I Left Behind | 3:42 |
| 7. | Night Sun (Bonus track) | 5:59 |
| 8. | Secrets (Bonus track) | 10:14 |
| 9. | The World I left Behind (inst. version, Bonus track) | 2:23 |
| PERFECT PLACE TO HIDEAWAY, the second and final album by THE STARS, has been remastered by Soichiro Nakamura for the first digital release. |
| The album is a masterpiece with long and heavy numbers, led by the late classic 'SUBWAY (a.k.a. NIGHT WALKER)’ or ‘LEMONADE'. |
| Research has unearthed three songs from the original masters that were almost complete but were not included on the album. |
| An early original version of 'NIGHT SUN' (which had already been altered to the point of being unrecognisable on 2006's 'LIVE IN KYOTO'), an beautiful instrumental version of 'THE WORLD I LEFT BEHIND’ written by Michio Kurihara, and an original studio version of ’SECRETS'. which has been performed on stage since the WHITE HEAVEN days but has never been released in a studio version. |
| This reissue including all 3 track as bonus! |
| Also you can download unreleased pictures from same photo sessions as album cover. |
| All Lyrics by You Ishihara | |
| Songs Written by | You Ishihara on M-1, 2, 5, 7, 8 |
| Michio Kurihara on M-4, 6, 9 | |
| The Stars on M-3 | |
| Recording Engineer: Soichiro Nakamura at Peace Music 2005 | |
| Produced by You Ishihara | |
| Photographer: Hitoshi Kato | |
| Art Director: You Ishihara | |
| Artwork: Yasunobu Arakawa | |
| Thanks to: | Yoichi "KINTA" Kikuchi, Johan Wellens, |
| Satoshi Yamai (Terrapin), Ando Little | |
| Dedicated to delightful memory of Chiyo Kamekawa. | |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocal, Guitar Additional Drums | M-5 |
| Michio Kurihara | Guitar | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Yasunobu Arakawa | Drums, Percussion | |
| Guest Musician | ||
| Soichiro Nakamura | Organ Fender Rhodes | M-1 |
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Pedal Records | Japan | Digital | 2024 | |||
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