YASUAKI SHIMIZU / MUSIC FOR COMMERCIALS (2017年リイシューCD盤)
坂本龍一、ヴァン・ダイク・パークス、ピエール・バルー、ビョークなど数多くのアーティストの作品の録音に参加し、80年代には現在海外でも再評価されるバンド、マライアもやっていた清水靖晃が、日本国内のTVコマーシャルや短編CGアニメ用にシンセサイザー＆サンプラー中心で制作した音源を集めた1987年リリースの名作の2017年リマスター＆リイシュー!!! ベルギーのCrammed Discsからリリースされたエクトール・ザズー、アクサク・マブール、ミニマル・コンパクト、タキシードムーン等が持ち回った「Made To Measure」シリーズの一枚で、当時の日本の時代更新ムードに清水靖晃のサウンドメイクが歓迎され、様々な大手企業に提供した音源。リマスターは、マスタリング界のレジェンド、バーニー・グランドマンの田中三一氏が担当。 Originally issued by Crammed in 1987, this is one of the most sought-after releases in our legendary Made To Measure series. Known for his numerous albums, soundtracks, and collaborations with an impossibly broad array of artists (from Ryuichi Sakamoto and DJ Towa Tei to Van Dyke Parks, Björk, Manu Dibango and Elvin Jones), composer, saxophonist and producer Yasuaki Shimizu also released several electronic music productions during the '80s, which are currently generating a lot of interest (a.o. his recently reissued Mariah project). "Music For Commercials" is a brilliant and inventive collection of short pieces, initially conceived as soundtracks for Japanese TV commercials (and bearing sweet titles such as "Seiko", "Sharp", "Honda" etc). These twenty-three tracks (each clocking in at two minutes or less, except one longer piece composed for a computer-animation short) abound with hit-and-run sound collages, twittering computers, and energetic ricocheting between myriad styles of music. This album has achieved near-mythical status in the last few years, which have seen artists such as Oneohtrix Point Never sing its praise. （Crammed Discs） TV commercials in the late '70s and '80s didn't advertise the practical features of products, they were meant to build strategic corporate images. You might even say they took a musical approach in their visual expression, though perhaps that's an overstatement. Being restricted to a time span of a minute or less made it ideal work for refining my intuitive powers. I made a conscious choice not to remix the tracks for this album. The final version of the original recordings appear here untouched, although I do remember working to link the individual tunes, and on the overall mood. ─Yasuaki Shimizu I met Yasuaki Shimizu when he was living in Paris, around the mid-80s. We were mutually interested in a Shimizu/Crammed collaboration, and we came up with the idea to gather the short pieces he had created for TV commercials, and release them in our Made To Measure composers' series which, at the time, already included 10 releases of mostly instrumental music. ─Marc Hollander 1. TACHIKAWA 2. SEIKO 1 3. SEIKO 2 4. SEN-NEN 1 5. RICOH 1 6. SEIKO 3 7. BOUTIQUE JOY 8. SEIKO 4 9. RICOH 2 10. LAOX 11. SHISEIDO 12. SEIKO 5 13. SHARP 14. SEN-NEN 2 15. HONDA 16. SUNTORY 17. KNORR 18. BRIDGESTONE 1 19. BRIDGESTONE 2 20. BRIDGESTONE 3 21. BRIDGESTONE 4 22. BRIDGESTONE 5 23. KA-CHO-FU-GETSU 24. SEIBU Format：CD Label：Crammed Discs (BEL)
