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}} , (English title ''Kalk Semen Chestnut Flower'') is the third studio album of Japanese singer-songwriter Ringo Sheena, released on February 23, 2003, on Toshiba EMI / Virgin Music. The album's lead single was successful by topping the Oricon charts for the first time. EMI released the album using copy control at first. Then, the CCCD version was stopped producing, and the CD-DA version was newly released on July 2, 2008. The vinyl record version which is a double album was released on May 27, 2003, and contains the bonus track . The short film which expresses the world view of the album was put on the market on January 22, 2003 prior to releasing the album. == Background and recording == The album is a follow-up to Ringo Sheena’s successful second album ''Shōso Strip'' (2000) and cover album ''Utaite Myōri: Sono Ichi'' (2002). The album was due to be entitled at first. However, Sheena decided to change the title because she overheard the male staff's chats and she thought their story to be interesting. They told that the smell of semen resembled the smell of chlorine, or the smell of the chestnut flowers. She thought that the nuance of word "semen" was beautiful, and adopted it as the title. The 2001 single was to have been included on this album along with one of the single's b-sides, . However, plans were changed after it was deemed they did not match the album. It was the first time for Sheena to produce her own album herself. The album was produced in about one year longer than the period of production of the past two albums. Sheena didn’t record a band all at once as had been done in her previous albums, but recorded one instrument at a time using overdubbing and multitracking. She used not only the rock band ensemble but also the various musical instruments such as folk instruments from Japan and other regions, string instruments, wind instruments, percussion instruments, as well as music sequencer and orchestra. In order to reduce budgets, she used her own Macintosh computer and cheap recording equipment, and composed and edited the songs herself using computer software, while sometimes exchanging the arranged songs with Uni Inoue. She recorded one musical instrument in one room of her house while recording the ensemble parts (string section, etc.) in another room. Seiji Kameda who had been involved in the production and arrangement of her previous two studio albums did not participate in this work. Instead, Sheena arranged this album with audio engineer Uni Inoue. Toshiyuki Mori orchestrated each of the recorded songs and arranged the whole "Yattsuke Shigoto". In 2003, musician Takao Tajima of the band Original Love covered the song "Okonomi de" on his tour ''"Odoru Taiyo" Tour''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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