The Ghost in Science

Overview

Track listing

• "QUIT" contains a sample of "Haldyn Hotel", from the album Water in Time and Space.

  Personnel

• Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitars, bass, timpani, percussion, autoharp, synthesizers, drum machine, sampler, sequencer, Amiga 2500, programming, arrangements, co-production, computer graphics

• Tuan Chin Kuan - voice in "World Turbine"
• - female vocals on "World Turbine"
• Jun Togawa - backing vocals on "Rocket" & "Cowboy and Indian"
• - backing vocals on "Rocket", bass on "Fish Song"
• Yūichi Hirasawa, , Yuji Oda, Shigeru Fujishima, Masahiro Furukawa - backing vocals on "Rocket"
• - drums on "Fish Song"
• Midori Ayabe, Hiroki Yamamoto, Nagisa Kiriyama and Yoshiaki Funayama - violin on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl"
• Kaori Kurimaru and Rika Morozumi - viola on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl"
• Hirohisa Miyata and Makoto Ohsawa - cello on "Fish Song" and "Techno Girl"
• Kazutoki Umezu - alto saxophone and noise on "Cowboy and Indian"
• Mamoru Kikuchi - Old Man's voice on "QUIT"
• Hisashi "Dr. Ochanomizu" Katsuta - Laughing voice on "QUIT"
• Kayo "Kokubo" Matsumoto - voice on "Techno Girl"

• Akiro Kamio Arishima - production
• Yoshiaki Kondo - recording & mixing engineer
• Meiji Takamatsu - second engineer

• Kiyoshi Inagaki - art director
• Naoki Wada, Yosuke Komatu - photography
• Yoshihiro Ariga - costume
• Akemi Tsujitani - styling
• Junko Maeda - hair & make-up

• I₃ Promotion
• *Yūichi Kenjo - co-production, backing vocals on "Rocket"
• *Masami Fujii, Hiroyshi Mitomi - artist management
• Tsutomu Fukushima - stage director
• Chūju Yamaguchi - assistant
• Katsuyuki Sawafuji - publicity coordination
• Polydor K.K.
• *Kazuyoshi Aoki - A&R coordinator
• *Osamu Takeuchi - backing vocals on "Rocket", director

• AC Unit, Sky Corporation, Mamoru Kimura Office, Toshikazu Tamura, Keiji Kimura, Masaya Abe, Sazaby's Furniture

  Release history

• "Techno Girl" is included on the AD.POLICE - DRAGON TRIP drama CD.
• "Fish Song" is the B-Side to the "Root of Spirit" single.
• "Rocket" and "Fish Song" were included on the Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～ compilation.
• "World Turbine", "Rocket", "Fish Song", "Dreaming Machine" and "Techno Girl" were included on the Archetype | 1989-1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa compilation.