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本帖最后由 LIMANTO 于 2024-1-17 19:15 编辑
Light in the Attic released the first Pacific Breeze compilation in 2019 and followed up swiftly the next year with Pacific Breeze 2. The enterprise seemed like it might have been a done deal until the label announced the third volume, which arrived in 2023. Although many of the tracks throughout the compilations have been accessible to those outside Japan via streaming platforms, selectors Mark "Frosty" McNeill and Yosuke Kitazawa survey and contextualize the countrys 70s/80s urban musical landscape in a discerning way that considers both collectors on a budget and curious listeners with no idea about where to start. Pacific Breeze 3, a truffle harvest, is a little more colorful and illuminating than the two overviews that preceded it. Its lighter than the others on 70s selections. Ex-Apryl Fool frontman Chu Kosaka sounds amiable and wise over a Haruomi Hosono production indebted to early Jackson 5. Teresa Nodas "Tropical Love" is candied reggae with strings, produced in Jamaica by Ryuichi Sakamoto with Rita Marley and Compass Point All Star Mikey Chung also on the session. A bounding synthesizer delight from Osamu Shoji is in the realm of Yellow Magic Orchestras "Computer Game" and Changes "The End" (and preceded both). In a way, the 1978 Shoji track points toward the prevailing 80s material with electronic gear figuring prominently in virtually everything from the later decade. The influence of U.S. contemporary R&B is strong in "Bewitched (Are You Leaving)," smooth, high-tech boogie voiced breathily by Naomi Akimoto. (The harmonica solo could be mistaken for the work of Stevie Wonder.) Its even stronger in Miho Fujiwaras RCA-issued "Heartbeat," sophisticated and peppy electro-funk that can fit between Angela Bofills "Cant Slow Down" and Midnight Stars "Operator" -- appropriately enough, it was recorded for an anime set in Southern California. Further highlights veer from charmingly mannered new wave to oddball art-pop, from Susans "Ah! Soka," featuring Hosono, Sakamoto, and their YMO brother Yukihiro Takahashi, to Miharu Koshis "Scandal Night," the most YMO-like track here, a jittering wonder produced by Hosono with human propulsion from former ABC drummer David Palmer. Those exploring the seemingly bottomless well of YMO-related projects are treated even more by Pizzicato Fives "Boy Meets Girl" and Mari Iijimas "Love Sick." Other noteworthy tracks involving none of those three giants include Hiroyuki Nambas Balearic delight "Tropical Exposition [Who Done It? Version]" and Yukako Hayases glistening "Suiyoubi Madeni Shinitaino," production-wise a collision of Scritti Politti and Ultravox with at least some of the lyrics at odds with its ecstatic vocal. As Kitazawa notes in the liners, the approximate English translation of the title is "I Want to Die Before Wednesday." ~ Andy Kellman
1. Bewitched (Are You Leaving Soon) / Naomi Akimoto
2. Tonkachi / Nina Atsuko
3. Heartbeat / Miho Fujiwara
4. Scandal Night / Miharu Koshi
5. Shirakechimauze / Chu Kosaka
6. Tropical Love / Teresa Noda
7. Business Man, Pt. 1 / Makoto Matsushita
8. Ah! Soka / Susan
9. Suiyoubi Madeni Shinitaino / Yukako Hayase
10. Kowloon Daily / Parachute
11. Tropical Exposition [Who Done It? Version] / Hiroyuki Namba
12. Boy Meets Girl / Pizzicato Five
13. Love Sick / Mari Iijima
14. Cosmic Love / 1986 Omega Tribe
15. Pub Casablanca / Osamu Shoji
16. Untotooku / Chiemi Manabe
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