It immediately gives you an American West Coast vibe: palm trees and a seaside, white, stucco-sided California radio shop storefront festooned with signage. GRASSO: Speaking of the American influence, I find myself lost in the design details of the magnificent album cover by Eizin Suzuki and the album’s overall art direction by Hiroshi Takahara.
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The recent development of portable car stereos and the Sony Walkman (debuted in Japan in 1979) made it possible for them to take music anywhere. This was perfectly suited to a new generation of young urban professionals who migrated from rural Japan to the cities to take advantage of job and education opportunities in the booming economy. Contrasted with the melancholy Enka Ballads of the postwar generation, their children were listening to a sound that was bright, funky, and heavily inspired by Western pop. The 1980s were a good time for Japan, so it’s no surprise that the music of the time reflected that.
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Though I only started looking closely at this genre after falling in love with the Yacht Rock web series and music genre, City Pop is a sound I remember well from watching anime, TV shows, and commercials from that time. To me, listening to City Pop evokes feelings of speeding down a Tokyo freeway on a sunny day or dancing in a neon-lit disco somewhere in Shibuya. TOYOSHIMA: Yamashita is one of the most famous musicians from the City Pop genre, an eclectic blend of rock, funk, jazz, and disco that was omnipresent in 1980s Japan. For You is an astonishingly cohesive sampler of all kinds of pop idioms: smooth jazz, doo-wop, and even pop vocal balladry, all backed with the rock-solid studio magic of Yamashita’s band of experienced session musicians. Yamashita entered the ’80s having broken away from his group Sugar Babe, achieving success with his 1980 solo album Ride on Time. Yamashita was at the forefront of a new wave of Japanese musicians influenced by the slick, smooth fusion of rock, jazz, and funk that was topping the charts in the US in the late ’70s and early ’80s. GRASSO: Tatsuro Yamashita‘s For You LP (listen here) was released in Japan in early 1982. Maker and Year: Air Records, Tatsuro Yamashita (producer), 1982ĭescription: ( Michael Grasso and Steve Toyoshima) Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, partial lyric sheet Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, Side A label Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, Side B label Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, front cover Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, back cover Tatsuro Yamashita’s For You, sleeve photo.
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