(B-) - Music gravitates back to Konishi’s strengths, but scattered Lowlights are the Tajima-penned funk-lite. offer a fun suite of songs under fake film soundtrack “Except from the music for film ‘EROTICA Operation,” and then “Satellite Hour” makes club pop from Fairlight vocal samples - thanks to a guest duet with future singer Maki Nomiya.
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“Bellissima ‘90” and “T V A G” are both solid J-pop songs with rock footing, and the latter brings back a few New Wave elements plus a Buffalo Springfield melody reference.
There still may be too much vibraphone, but synthesized beats replace the jazz drumming to reintroduce a sense of speed. The opening instrumental track “Holiday for Audrey H.” achieves this through trumpet solos and hyper-speed harpsichord, foreshadowing their later work. Konishi felt that Bellissima! was “too serious,” so on the second album with Tajima, the mission was to keep the male singer but bring back the levity of their past songs. (B+) - A dated Eighties sound, but an auspicious start On the brighter side, Hosono also brought us the delightfully wispy synth lines that carry both the Simon & Garfunkel cover “The 59th Street Bridge Song” and the vaguely-Hawaiian “Let’s Go Away for a While.” But no matter how solid the songs, the production never emerges from the gray fog of early 1980s New Wave. (No organic instruments were harmed in the production of this record.) The title song would function well as background music in a B-grade American 1980s film where the protagonist is walking town feeling tortured. And as such, producer Hosono Haruomi (of Happy End and Yellow Magic Orchestra) roughed up P5’s dainty vocals, dainty melodies, and references to dainty 1950s cinema icon Audrey Hepburn with clackety drum machines, dissonant piano chords, and proggy structural complications. Pizzicato V debuted as one of many “YMO children” on the Non STANDARD label. This is part two of a five-part series, covering the band’s first eight releases. David Marx listened to every single major release from legendary Shibuya-kei band, Pizzicato Five, so you don’t have to.
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