page_title: Ukina
section_title: Writing and production
hierarchical_section_title: Ukina / Writing and production
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Burt Bacharach in Antwerpen.
context_page_description: Ukina, also known by its English name Talk of the Town, is a compilation album by Japanese musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on her 15th anniversary on November 13, 2013 by Universal Music Japan sublabel EMI Records Japan, alongside a live recording compilation album called Mitsugetsu-shō. The album compiles her collaborations with other musicians not released on a Ringo Sheena album, as well as two unpublished songs.
context_section_description: The songs "Becoming" and "Rock & Hammer" were originally on Takashi Taniguchi's 1998 album Becoming. "Crazy Days Crazy Feeling" and "You Make Me Feel So Bad" were two of three songs Sheena sung in the chorus on Zazen Boys' album Zazen Boys II (2004), along with "Anminbō" (安眠棒, "Stick of Peaceful Sleep") which does not feature on Ukina. "Rockin' Luuula" was a song from Mo'some Tonebender's album Rockin' Luuula (2005), in which Sheena sung chorus and played the piano. Sheena also performed the kazoo on the song "Mashed Potato Boogie" (マッシュポテト・ブギー, Masshupoteto Bugī), also featured on Rockin' Luuula. For Blankey Jet City vocalist Kenichi Asai's 2006 debut single "Kiken Sugiru," Sheena performed chorus work. It was later featured on his album Johnny Hell (2006).
  "Amai Yamai" was collaboration with hip-hop group Maboroshi on their 2009 album Maboroshi no Shi. Two versions of Sheena's collaboration with Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, "My Foolish Heart," are featured on Ukina. The "Crazy on Earth" version was featured on their album 6 (2009), and the "Crazy in Shibuya" version was released as a digital download on September 30, 2009. "Kirakira Bushi" was a 2011 pseudonymous collaboration with Takafumi Ikeda's solo-project Rekishi, using the name Deyonna.
  Many of the other collaborations were from 2013. "Koroshiya Kiki Ippatsu" was another collaboration with Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, which was released as a single, reaching number 14 on Oricon single charts. It featured on their album Circles. Further collaborations included "Apple" on Towa Tei's Lucky (2013) and "Yasashii Tetsugaku" on Tomita Lab's album Joyous. Sheena was also featured as a vocalist on two other songs from Lucky: "Tokai no Yoru, Watashi no Machi" (都会の夜 わたしの街, "Urban Night, My Town") which also featured Yuko Hara, Ken Yokoyama, and Yu Sakai, and the leading promotional track "Kono Yo wa Fushigi" (この世は不思議, "This World Is Mysterious"), which also featuredYuko Hara, Ken Yokoyama, and Yu Sakai.
  "Between Today and Tomorrow" is an instrumental track Sheena wrote for the film Kyō to Ashita no Aida ni, a documentary on ballet artist Yasuyuki Shuto. She worked on the track with Neko Saito and his quartet. It was released as a digital single on January 7, 2012.
  Two previously unreleased songs were featured on the album. "It Was You" was a ballad written by Burt Bacharach. It was first performed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival in Otaru, Hokkaido on August 16, 2008, but otherwise was unreleased. Sheena performed the song together with the Neko Saito Quartet, and they are credited as the collaborating artist on Ukina. "Netsuai Hakkakuchū" was a song Sheena wrote especially for Ukina, which she asked electronic musician Yasutaka Nakata to arrange for her.
caption: American composer Burt Bacharach composed one of the two new songs on Ukina.
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