Sunday, April 23, 2023

Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita - Pacific - LP (1978) CD (2013) CBS SONY (FLAC) - Rare Japanese Fusion

First Released in 1978, all music by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita! A historical masterpiece of a planning board produced by a gathering cutting edge sound creators at the time. Top creators such as Haruomi Hosono, Tatsuro Yamashita, Shigeru Suzuki, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Masataka Matsutoya, who are now major artists, producers, and musicians in the  music world, made "Island Music" when they were younger. Its a masterpiece of an instrumental album. Haruomi Hosono's work, including the prototype version of "Cosmic Surfing" recorded in YMO's debut album, and the small suite "Nostalgia of Island" by Tatsuro Yamashita, Shigeru Suzuki. Full of J-fusion-oriented tracks such as "Passion Flower" and "Nostalgia". Other participating musician members include Tatsuo Hayashi, Shuichi Murakami, Kenji Takamizu, Motoya Hamaguchi, Nobu Saito, Jun Sato, Kenji Omura, Hirofumi Tokutake, and Hidefumi Toki. All giants in their field of instruments. Full line up included.

AMM


Tracks

01 Last paradise
02 Coral Reef
03 Nostalgia of Island
04 Slack Key Rumba
05 Passion Flower
06 Noa Noa
07 Kiska
08 Cosmic Surfing

                                                               

                                                                      The Tasters!






12 comments:

Anghellic67$ said...

Great Review Thank you AMM

PeterH said...

Another excursion into Japanese fusion! Thanks for review, P.

soultime said...

Nice & chilled vibe .

Rush said...

Thanks for the review AMM, Coral Reef is my kind of tune

RMstorm said...

Thanks AMM for this historical masterpiece.

Big Dave said...

Excellent album and review... many thanks AMM

BigD

richsoul said...

Thank you for the great review. Thank you AMM.

hakase said...

new to me again im pretty sure you know much more about jap stuff than i do! thanks a lot AMM

pedro B said...

Some cool sounds to play down at the ocean edge 2 min drive for me

Cheers Pedro

reb.jukebox said...

Great share AMM looking forward to listening to this
Reb

Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities said...

Many thanks for the info,new for me

MusicFan59 said...

Nice tasters. Liking what I hear from these guys. Thanks for another new one to me!!!