"Wasurenai" - MASATOSHI NAKAMURA 40th Anniversary - [Limited Edition]

[Machine Translation] Celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut! The long-awaited release of their first original album in 15 years! This album includes the single songs "Cosmos" and "Tears," which were expected to be included in the album. It also includes an acoustic cover version of "Hana ha Saku", the theme song of "NHK Great East Japan Earthquake Project", which is a charity song to support the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and which Masatoshi Nakamura himself sang in the Kohaku Uta Gassen. The album also includes an acoustic cover version of "Hana wa Saku", the theme song of the Naruse Ouka Elementary School in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, which was merged into a new school due to the disaster, and "Hana wa Saku", a song he composed himself, as well as the charity single "Anticipation - Miyagi ni Kuni ni Natta" released in collaboration with the band "Numberza" led by Miyagi Prefecture native Kankuro Kudo and Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture native Taku Tomizawa. The album also includes "Wasurenai" and "Smile Again," as well as many other newly recorded original songs that were created through his own reconstruction support activities and are close to the hearts of Japanese people today. The limited first edition includes a best-of album containing many of the best songs created over the past 40 years! ( 2 CDs )

デビュー40周年記念 ! ファン待望の15年ぶりとなるオリジナル・アルバム発売 ! 今作は、アルバム収録が期待されていたシングル曲「コスモス」「涙」を収録。また、東日本大震災復興支援チャリティーソングであり、中村雅俊自身の紅白歌合戦での歌唱も記憶に新しい「NHK東日本大震災プロジェクト」のテーマソング「花は咲く」のアコースティックカヴァーバージョン、震災の影響で統合され新たに誕生した宮城県東松島市立鳴瀬桜華 (おうか)小学校の校歌として自ら作曲した「花になろう」、宮城県出身の宮藤官九郎、福島県いわき市出身の富澤タク率いるバンド「ナンバーザ」と競演してリリースされたチャリティーシングル「予定～宮城に帰ったら～」といった話題曲を収録。そして、「ワスレナイ」「Smile Again」他、自らの復興支援活動を通じて生まれた、現在の日本人の心に寄り添う新録オリジナル楽曲を多数収録。 また初回限定盤は、40年間に生み出された数々の名曲を1枚に収めたベスト盤付き ! (CD2枚組)