Presents

About Presents

Presents is the ninth studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 11 December 2002 under EMI Japan.

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Presents is the ninth studio album by Japanese J-pop singer and songwriter Maki Ohguro. It was released on 11 December 2002 under EMI Japan.

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Album

This album isn’t made up of singles, rather it is a conceptual album about theme "love". Compared to Ohguro’s other albums, the music on the album sounds less pop-rock and carries a calmer and jazzy feeling.

Takeshi Hayama, the main producer of Ohguro’s albums since her debut, wasn't involved in the production of this album. Satoshi Takebe, the member of the band Kokua is the main producer of this album, as well as other music arrangers from Universal Music Japan.

Reception

The album reached No. 18 in its first week on the Oricon chart. The album sold 28,000 copies.

In media

3-Call & 1-Mail: commercial song of NTT DoCoMo

Ai no Uta: theme song for the Toyota Stadium

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Notable quotes

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.”
— Gautama Buddha Dhammapada, (verse 202), translator: Narada Maha Thera
“I’ve heard it said that sometimes, in return for the gifts of the earth, gratitude is enough. It is our uniquely human gift to express thanks, because we have the awareness and the collective memory to remember that the world could well be otherwise, less generous than it is.”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer,
“As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.”
— 1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)
“Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.”
— Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
“Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera.”
— In one hand he bears a stone, with the other offers bread.
“Denn was ein Mensch auch hat, so sind's am Ende Gaben.”
— For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

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