PACIFIC BREEZE 2: JAPANESE CITY POP, AOR & BOOGIE 1972-1986 SUNNY VINYL REPRESS by VARIOUS ARTISTS
| SKU | 112237 |
| Artist | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| Title | PACIFIC BREEZE 2: JAPANESE CITY POP, AOR & BOOGIE 1972-1986 SUNNY VINYL REPRESS |
| Label | LIGHT IN THE ATTIC |
| Catalog # | LITA 179-1-3 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 21 - 2020 |
| Format | Vinyl - US2LP |
| EAN Barcode | 826853317931 |
| Import | |
| € 57,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Bread & Butter - Pink Shadow
- Eiichi Ohtaki - Yubikiri
- Kimiko Kasai - Vibration (Love Celebration)
- The Mystery Kindaichi Band - Kindaichi Kosuke No Theme
- Tetsuji Hayashi - Hidari Mune No Seiza
- Anri - Last Summer Whisper
- Momoko Kikuchi - Blind Curve
- Tomoko Aran - I'm In Love
- Yu Imai - Kindaichi Kosuke Nishi E Iku
- Sadistics - Tokyo Taste
- Piper - Hot Sand
- Junko Ohashi & Minoya Central Station - Rainy Saturday Coffee Break
- Eri Ohno - Skyfire
- Yumi Murata - Kanpoo
- Kyoko Furuya - Harumifutou
- Yuji Toriyama - Bay/Sky Provincetown 1977
Description
sunny vinyl repress
The follow up to LITA’s 2019 release Pacific Breeze is again a lovely doublepack of goodies with extensive artist bios in oversized fold-out booklet
Pacific Breeze 1 included Minako Yoshida, Taeko Ohnuki, Hiroshi Sato and Haruomi Hosono among other key players of ‘70s-’80s Japanese City Pop, the nebulous genre that encompassed an “amalgam of AOR, R&B, jazz fusion, funk, boogie and disco, all a touch dizzy with tropical euphoria,” as we described it the first time around.
With Pacific Breeze 2: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1972-1986 Light in the Attic dig deeper into those sounds of bubble-era Japan. From the proto-City Pop funk of Bread & Butter and Eiichi Ohtaki to the crate-digger favorites Eri Ohno and Piper, the latest entry in Light In The Attic’s Japan Archival Series brings another set of sought-after tunes, most of which have never before been available outside of Japan. Tomoko Aran and Anri, also included in this compilation, are just a few of the artists who have gained popularity in recent years thanks to Vaporwave, the meme-genre that heavily samples Japanese City Pop to create its particular aesthetic.
Pacific Breeze 2 once again feature the artwork of renowned Tokyo-based illustrator Hiroshi Nagai, whose iconic images of resort living have become synonymous with City Pop. Nagai’s urban tropical imagery is a perfect match for the expertly curated tunes, evoking a certain sense of nostalgia for the leisure lifestyles of ‘70s-’80s Tokyo, while simultaneously being perfectly in tune with the current zeitgeist.
