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VARIOUS - Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 - 2xLP
Sold Date:
February 10, 2022
Start Date:
January 26, 2022
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information VARIOUS Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop AOR & Boogie 1976-1986 (limited pink vinyl 2xLP + insert with obi-strip) Light In The Attic US
Cat: LITA 163PINK. Rel: 12 Aug 19
Disco/Nu Disco/Re-Edits
Side 1 - Track 1. Tomoko Soryo - I Say WhoSide 1 - Track 2. Taeko Ohnuki - Kusuri Wo TakusanSide 1 - Track 3. Minako Yoshida - Midnight DriverSide 1 - Track 4. Nanako Sato - Subterranean Futari BocciSide 2 - Track 1. Haruomi Hosono - Sports MenSide 2 - Track 2. Izumi Kobayashi - Coffee RumbaSide 2 - Track 3. FOE - In My JungleSide 2 - Track 4. Akira Inoue, Hiroshi Sato, Masataka Matsutoya - Sun BathingSide 3 - Track 1. Hiroshi Satoh - Say GoodbyeSide 3 - Track 2. Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry EyesSide 3 - Track 3. Masayoshi Takanaka - Bamboo VenderSide 3 - Track 4. Shigeru Suzuki - Lady Pink PantherSide 4 - Track 1. Haruomi Hosono, Takahiko Ishikawa, Masataka Matsutoya - Mykonos No HanayomeSide 4 - Track 2. Yasuko Agawa - LA NightSide 4 - Track 3. Hitomi Tohyama - Exotic YokogaoSide 4 - Track 4. Tazumi Toyoshima - Machibouke
U.S label Light In The Attic has previously served up compilations exploring various Japanese takes on Western music, most notably folk, rock, ambient and new age. Here they switch tack, curating a brilliant double-album set that showcases the best Japanese synth-pop, AOR and boogie recorded between 1976 and '86. The quality threshold remains impressively high throughout, from the blue-eyed-soul breeze of Taeko Ohnuki's "Kusuri Wo Takusan" and the Chaz Jankel-meets-Thompson Twins style throb of Haruomi Hosono's "Sports Men", to the talkbox-sporting late night AOR-pop flex's Hiroshi Satoh's "Say Goodbye" and the glistening, Latin-influenced jazz-funk brilliance of Masayoshi Takanaka's steel pan-sporting "Bamboo Vender".
