Jun Fukamachi / NICOLE (86 SPRING and SUMMER COLLECTION - INSTRUMENTAL IMAGES) (CD盤)
日本のフュージョン・シーンの先駆者で、作曲家／アレンジャー／シンセサイザー奏者の深町純が、1986年にファッション・ブランド「ニコル」のコレクション用に制作し、プロモ配布だけで発表したアナログLP音源が、高田みどりからジョン・カーペンターまでユニークな発掘再発で注目を集めるWE RELEASE WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANTより復刻!!! 日本人の細やかなセンスが結晶化したような、透明感溢れるクロスオーバー作品！ Chee Shimizu「Obscure Sound - 桃源郷的音盤640選」でもセレクトされていた一枚！ WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the release of Jun Fukamachi's highly coveted Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images) album, originally recorded in 1986 for celebrated fashion designer Mitsuhiro Matsuda's Nicole clothing brand and never officially available before. Only ever distributed as a limited promotional item offered to attendees and participants of the 1986 fashion show for the Nicole brand's Spring and Summer collection, Fukamachi's moody magnum opus has become a sort of Holy Grail for fans of Japanese ambient, jazz, and synth music alike...and rightly so! Meticulously conceived, smooth and subtle, Nicole sounds like it came from an ethereal land where Erik Satie and Art of Noise lived together, a sublimely cinematic listening experience perhaps best described by renowned Japanese music writer Masaharu Yoshioka aka The Soul Searcher: If you are driving down the Autobahn at 160 km/h, or even 80 km/h, and Jun's music starts playing on the car stereo, the windshield will instantly turn into your own personal silver screen. Nicole is available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios, housed in a kraft sleeve similar to the original promo-only release, and a kraft digipak CD version. Both versions were made in cooperation with the artists's estate and come with new liner notes by Masaharu Yoshioka. （WE RELEASE WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANT Records） 1. Morning Glow 2. Breathing New Life 3. Garden 4. Urban Square 5. Nile Blue 6. Shining Through 7. Early Summer Roses 8. At The Cutting Edge Bonus Track 9. Passion Format：CD Label：WE RELEASE WHATEVER THE FUCK WE WANT (CHE)
