Potpourri (P-Model album)

Potpourri
Studio album by P-Model
Released March 25, 1981 (1981-03-25)
Studio Sunrise Studio
Warner-Pioneer Studio
Tokyo
Genre
Length 35:57
Label Warner-Pioneer
Producer P-Model
P-Model chronology
Landsale
(1980)		 Potpourri
(1981)		 Perspective
(1982)
Singles from Potpourri
  1. "junglebed II" c/w "disgusting telephone"
    Released: March 25, 1981 K-1502W

Potpourri is the 1981 third album of Japanese band P-Model.

Overview

On the year of Landsale's release, the technopop boom was reaching critical mass. Feeling in a state of crisis he distanced P-Model from the genre, trying to drive trend followers through rebellious episodes, and replacing their colorful clothing and equipment for a muted getup (black, white, gray and blue). At one concert, a leaflet titled "The Point of Coming to a Concert" was distributed while Landsale was looped endlessly through the PA system; the band did not play until the concertgoers started an uproar which led to a backlash against the band.[1]

Bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama's creative position was in an opposite direction to where Hirasawa wanted to take P-Model, so he was fired from the band, and his songs were not played anymore. He was replaced by high school sophomore Tatsuya Kikuchi, a student of Hirasawa's at the Yamaha Synthesizer School. Kikuchi did not formally join the band while Potpourri was being recorded, leading Hirasawa to play all bass parts on the album.

Potpourri has a harsher and more off-putting sound than previous albums, with P-Model employing different instruments and experimental recording techniques. Guitar is more prominent than the keyboard-centric albums from before, leaving synthesizers to go almost unused. Hirasawa incorporates greater antagonism into his vocals, sometimes to the point of screaming them.

The album alienated P-Model's fanbase, leaving only a core audience that would persist with Hirasawa throughout his career.

Track listing

All tracks written by Susumu Hirasawa, except where noted. 

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."junglebed I" (ジャングルベッドI jangurubeddo I)instrumental 2:00
2."blue cross" (青十字 ao jūji)  2:36
3."junglebed II" (ジャングルベッドII jangurubeddo II)  3:49
4."blue print" (ブループリント burūpurinto)Yasumi TanakaTanaka2:17
5."aqualife"  Hirasawa, TanakaTanaka2:51
6."different≠another"    2:21
7."anothersmell"  instrumentalTanaka1:47
8."film" (フィルム firumu)  2:52
9."monochrome screen" (モノクローム・スクリーン monokurōmu sukurīn)TanakaTanaka2:52
10."marvel"    2:56
11."natural" (ナチュラル nachuraru)TanakaTanaka2:55
12."disgusting telephone" (いまわし電話 imawashi denwa)  3:13
13."potpourri" (ポプリ popuri)  3:19

In all releases of the album, the titles consisted of Japanese characters are rendered only through the characters, except for title track, which is rendered as "potpourri (ポプリ)".

Personnel

P-Model - production, arrangements
Staff

Release history

Date Label(s) Format Catalog Notes
March 25, 1981 Warner-Pioneer LP K-12005W
CS LKF-7025
January 25, 1992 Warner Music Japan CD WPCL-605 Released (alongside In a Model Room and Landsale) a month before the release of P-Model.
May 10, 2002
July 4, 2014		 Chaos Union, Teslakite CHTE-0006 Remastered by Hirasawa. Part of Disc 2 of the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set, alongside parts of the "Dual Perspective" & "Exercises for the Heavenizer" series of songs from 1981 & 1982. Re-released with new packaging by Kiyoshi Inagaki.
December 20, 2003 Warner Music Japan, sky station, SS RECORDINGS SS-103 Packaged in a paper sleeve to replicate the original LP packaging. Includes new liner notes by music industry writer Dai Onojima.

References

  1. ↑ "P-MODEL / 平沢進 バイオグラフィ". MODEROOM. Fascination, inc.
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