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01. Yukihiro Takahashi - Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)
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02. Yukihiro Takahashi - Saravah!
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03. Yukihiro Takahashi - C'est Si Bon
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04. Yukihiro Takahashi - La Rosa
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05. Yukihiro Takahashi - Mood Indigo
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06. Yukihiro Takahashi - Elastic Dummy
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07. Yukihiro Takahashi - Sunset
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08. Yukihiro Takahashi - Back Street Midnight Queen
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09. Yukihiro Takahashi - Present
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ARTIST
TAKAHASHI, YUKIHIRO
TITLE
Saravah!
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
WEWANTSOUNDS
CATALOG #
WWSLP 026LP
WWSLP 026LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/18/2019
2023 repress. LP version. Wewantsounds present a reissue of
Yukihiro Takahashi
's debut solo album
Saravah!
, originally released in 1978. One of the key Japanese albums of the '70s, it was released at a key time when, following his tenure with
Sadistic Mika Band
, Takahashi had just joined the nascent line up of
Yellow Magic Orchestra
. A sophisticated mix of disco funk, synth pop, ambient, French exotica, and bossa nova, the album has the stylish feel of a night out clubbing in Paris circa 1978. It's the missing link between the city pop scene of the late '70s and the synth sound of YMO which was about to revolutionize the world. The month before recording the YMO debut album that would help alter the course of music, Yukihiro Takahashi entered the studio with his fellow band-members
Ryuichi Sakamoto
and
Haruomi Hosono
to record
Saravah!
together with the cream of the Japanese scene. He drew his inspiration from globe-trotting French musician
Pierre Barouh
who had introduced Bossa Nova in France in 1966 with "Samba Saravah" (featured in soundtrack the Oscar winner
A Man And A Woman
which he co-wrote) and subsequently launched Saravah Records.
Saravah!
starts off with a couple of French and Italian exotica classics ("Volare" and "C'est Si Bon") with delicious touches of synth while "Saravah!" is a nod to Pierre Barouh, a languid bossa nova with beautiful soulful strings arranged by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The album gets hotter with "La Rosa", a superb mid-tempo ambient funk featuring
Shigeru Suzuki
's fluid guitar. Next is an amazing exotica-synth version of the standard "Mood Indigo", announcing the midi revolution that was to come before things get funkier shortly after with Ryuichi Sakamoto's superb up-tempo disco instrumental "Elastic Dummy" featuring soulful strings and horns with solos by Sakamoto and guitarist
Tsunehide Matsuki
. The album then moves on to the ambient synth pop of "Sunset" before switching back to disco funk with "Back Street Midnight Queen" which, like "Elastic Dummy", has become a dancefloor cult classic.
Saravah!
ends on a perfect note with the beautiful "Present" a perfectly crafted pop song which Takahashi wanted to do in a city pop mode, featuring a superb melody and high-class arrangements.. Newly remastered by renowned engineer
Mitsuo Koike
. Features original artwork with photos by
Masayoshi Sukita
(
David Bowie
's
Heroes
(1977)); includes four-page insert and a new Introduction by
Benjamin Barouh
(of Saravah Records).
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