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Awaken is the first full-length Japanese album (second overall) by South Korean boy band NCT 127, the second multi-national sub-unit of NCT. Released by their Japanese label Avex Trax on April 17, 2019, the album was the second major release for the Japanese market from the group and their first to not feature Winwin, who was on a hiatus due to his participation in WayV's promotion. SM Entertainment's founder Lee Soo-man served as the album's executive producer, with lyrical and musical composition contributed by Andreas Öberg, Sebastian Thott, David Amber, Jung Youth, Tony Esterly, Jonny Shorr, LDN Noise, Deez, Adrian Mckinnon, Mike Daley, Yoo Young-jin, Harvey Mason Jr., Dem Jointz, MEG.ME and others. A hip-hop and R&B-heavily dominant record, Awaken contains songs corporating elements from pop and electronic music, performing in Japanese, Korean and English in order to "continue" the story from their first Japanese extended play Chain (2018). Upon its release, the album debuted at number four on the Oricon Weekly Albums chart with 53,042 copies sold in its first week of its release, as well as at number 14 on the Oricon Weekly Digital Albums chart with 978 downloads, becoming the group's third top five entry on the former chart. To promote the album, NCT 127 embarked on their first Japan concert tour, titled Neo City – The Origin. The album also spawned two singles prior to its release, namely the Japanese version of "Touch" on September 16, 2018 and "Wakey-Wakey" on March 19, 2019. Background and release After making their debut in the Japanese market with the extended play, Chain, in 2018, NCT 127 released their first Japanese studio album, Awaken, on April 17, 2019. It was released in fourteen versions: a limited CD+DVD edition that reverts to a regular edition once depleted, a limited CD+Blu-ray edition that reverts to a regular edition once depleted, and nine limited CD member editions that revert to a regular CD edition once depleted. All limited editions came with one trading card of nine types.

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“Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. Let us awaken then, and evince a different spirit, — a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us, — a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle, until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock.”
— Samuel Adams, addressing a meeting of delegates to the Continental Congress, assembled at Yorktown, Pennsylvania (September 1777), as quoted in The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (1865), by William Vincent Wells, Vol. 2, p. 492
“We need not war to awaken human energy. There is at least equal scope for courage and magnanimity in blessing, as in destroying mankind.”
— William Ellery Channing, in "War" (1816)
“I am the choice of their awakening. My samhadi is their samhadi. Their experiences are mine! Their knowledge distilled is my inheritance. Those billions are my one.”
— Frank Herbert, in God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals
“Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.”
— Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), in Never Born, Never Died (2002)
“The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart.”
— Starhawk, in a Bodhi Tree Bookstore presentation (December 1999)
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
— Attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), written by Larry Forester, Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima. Though it is thought that it summarizes Yamamoto's sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support the attribution. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote".

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Notable quotes

“Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters. Let us awaken then, and evince a different spirit, — a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us, — a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle, until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock.”
— Samuel Adams, addressing a meeting of delegates to the Continental Congress, assembled at Yorktown, Pennsylvania (September 1777), as quoted in The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams (1865), by William Vincent Wells, Vol. 2, p. 492
“We need not war to awaken human energy. There is at least equal scope for courage and magnanimity in blessing, as in destroying mankind.”
— William Ellery Channing, in "War" (1816)
“I am the choice of their awakening. My samhadi is their samhadi. Their experiences are mine! Their knowledge distilled is my inheritance. Those billions are my one.”
— Frank Herbert, in God Emperor of Dune (1981), The Stolen Journals
“Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.”
— Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), in Never Born, Never Died (2002)
“The goddess awakens in infinite forms and a thousand disguises. She is found where she is least expected, appears out of nowhere and everywhere to illumine the open heart.”
— Starhawk, in a Bodhi Tree Bookstore presentation (December 1999)
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
— Attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor, as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), written by Larry Forester, Hideo Oguni and Ryuzo Kikushima. Though it is thought that it summarizes Yamamoto's sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support the attribution. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote".

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