Seal/Seal (II) (1994)

シールの3年ぶりの2ndアルバム。プロデュースは前作に引き続きトレヴァー・ホーンが担当。映画『バッドマン・フォーエヴァー』の挿入歌になったバラード「キッス・フロム・ア・ローズ」のヒットを受け、1996年のグラミー賞では、レコード・オブ・ザ・イヤー、ソング・オブ・ザ・イヤー、ベスト・ポップ・ヴォーカル男性部門の３部門での受賞の快挙を成し遂げる。ホーンにとっても初のグラミー賞受賞となった。またジェフ・ベックの参加や「イフ・アイ・クッド」でのジョニ・ミッチェルとのデュエットも話題となった。全英チャート1位、全米15位。邦題は「シールII」。

レーベル：ZTT/Sire (UK)
1994年7月発売

Tracks
・Bring It On (Seal/Isidore/Melvoin/Coleman/Bruce/Rizzo)
・Prayer for the Dying (Seal/Isidore)
・Dreaming in Metaphors (Seal/Isidore)
・Don't Cry (Seal)
・Fast Changes (Seal/Isidore)
・Kiss from A Rose (Seal)
・People Asking Why (Seal)
・Newborn Friend (Seal)
・If I Could (Seal)
・I'm Alive (Seal/Isidore/Melvoin/Coleman/Rizzo)
・Bring It On (Reprise) (Seal/Isidore/Melvoin/Coleman/Bruce/Rizzo)

Credits
Produced by Trevor Horn for Horn Productions
Engineers: Tim Weidner, Carmen Rizzo, Steve Fitzmaurice, Steve MacMillan, Gregg Jackman, Robin Barclay, Paul Wright, Sean Chenery
Mixers: Steve Fitzmaurice, Steve MacMillan, Tim Weidner
Programmers: Carmen Rizzo, Eric Caudieux, Tim Weidner
First Assistant: Richard Lowe
Assistants: Tom Elmhirst, Andrew Gallimore, Howard Bargroff, Efren Herrera
Assistant to Trevor Horn: Mike Higham
Technical Back-up: Bill Ward
Studios: Recorded mainly at Sarm West Studios, but also Sarm West Coast, Sarm Hook End, Sarm East, Real World, Angel

Principal Players: Gus Isidore, Wendy Melvoin, Lisa Coleman, Jamie Muhoberac

Musicians:
Jeff Beck, Bill Benham, Mark Berrow, Mike Brittain, Chris Bruce, Nick Busch, Besty Cook, Laurence Cottle, Richard Cottle, Ben Cruft, D-Influence, Mike De Saulles, Pandit Dinesh, Charley Drayton, Anne Dudley, Andy Duncan, Jon Evans-Jones, Joseph 'Amp' Fiddler, W.Garfield-Jackson, Roger Garland, Wilfred Gibson, Trevor Horn, Luis Jardim. Paul Kegg, Pat Kiernan, Boguslaw Kostecki, Chris Laurence, Helen Liebmann, Martin Loveday, Sam Maitland, Mark Mann, Rita Manning, Harvey Mason, Jim McLead, Perry Montague-Mason, Dick Morgan, Andy Newmark, David Oladunni, William Orbit, Peter Oxer, Pino Palladino, John Pigneguy, Anthony Pleeth, Judd Procter, Maciej Rakowski, Carmen Rizzo, Eddie Roberts, George Robertson, Seal, Jackie Shabe, Bob Smissen, Roger Smith, Phil Spalding, Tony Stanton, David Theodore, Ian Thomas, Derek Watkins, Sarah Webb, Tim Weidner, Kate Wilkinson, Barry Wilde, Gavin Wright, Gota Yashiki

Additional vocals on "If I Could": Joni Mitchell
Strings Arrangements: Anne Dudley, Wil Malone
Orchestra Sessions arranged by Graeme Perkins

Mastered bu Stephen Marcussen at Precision Mastering, Hollywood, CA

Photography by Nick Knight
Design: Michael-Nash Assoc.

公式サイト
http://www.seal.com/

公式MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/seal2222

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Music Videos

Prayer for the Dying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VUP8p7YAeM

Don't Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g9Ya6zkWvc

Kiss from A Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateQQc-AgEM

Newborn Friend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yju43nleMU