Product Description
Part of a 5 CD series from five major record companies. 1970s and '80s Japanese fusion has been gaining attention in Japan and around the world in the wake of the City Pop revival. Instrumental music, mixing jazz, rock, soul, Latin music and other styles, played by session musicians who were also behind much of the sounds of City Pop. Groups and artists such as Casiopea, Masayoshi Takanaka, Yuji Toriyama, Himiko Kikuchi, Kazumi Watanabe, and Terumasa Hino have all been rediscovered in recent years. The artwork for the series was created by graphic artist Stereo Tennis, a pioneer of 80s design. Supervised by Hitoshi Kurimoto.
1. Park Avenue/Kazumi Watanabe with Manhattan Blaze (1978)
2. Hip Cruiser/Shigeharu Mukai (1979)
3. Flying Easy/Chikara Ueda and Power Station (1980)
4. The Island Skyline/Kiyoshi Sugimoto (1981)
5. Memory Lane/Soul Media (1980)
6. Out Of Focus/Hiromasa Suzuki (1976)
7. Lena/Arakawa Band (1980)
8. Still Love You/Spick & Span (1979)
9. Hot Friendship/Hidefumi Toki & Temps (1985)
10. Midnight Whisper/Yuka Noda (1989)
11. West Beach Drive/Shigeru Suzuki (1987)
12. Gypsy Moon/Chika Asamoto (1988)
13. Good Morning Birds/Zoom (1982)
14. Living In A City/Toshiyuki Daitoku (1981)
