Potpourri (P-Model album)

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Potpourri
File:Potpourri (P-Model album).jpg
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)Landsale1980		 Potpourri
(1981)		 Perspective
(1982)Perspective1982
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 heating. Band leader Susumu Hirasawa, recalling the period, said: "If I had released works in the same way, I certainly wouldn't be able to continue my musical career up to now". Feeling a state of crisis, he distanced P-Model from the genre, trying to drive trend followers through rebellious episodes. On a Nakano Sun Plaza Hall show P-Model and co-headliners Hikashu got into an altercation with the show's sponsors. On the band's day at the music festival "Pop the Hero" they replaced their colorful clothing and equipment for a muted getup (black, white, gray and blue), Hirasawa squeezed a tube of Yamato glue on stage during "Sophisticated" and P-Model held up a globe instead of playing "Globe". On a concert at the Yaneura, a leaflet by the dōjinshi magazine Rock-May-Kan 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]

At the same time, bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama's creative position was in an opposite direction to where Hirasawa wanted to take P-Model, so Akiyama was fired from the band, which stopped playing his songs. 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.

Poypourri has a harsher and more off-putting sound than previous albums, with P-MODEL employing completely different instruments and recording techniques, it's more guitar based than the keyboard-based previous albums, synthesizers are almost unused, Hirasawa incorporates aggressiveness in his vocals and more screaming, uses bizarre compositions and experiments with ska beats and sound collages. Unusual samples are preeminent and the chorus of the children's song "I Broke My Clarinet" is covered as the chorus of "film". The idea is of music as an industrial good rather than a consumer good, showing the original idea behind the band before they were consumed as a technopop band.[2] The concert-going audience diminished due to the anti-pop sound, leaving only a core audience that would persist with Hirasawa throughout his career.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Susumu Hirasawa, except where noted. 

No. Title Lyrics Music Length
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 Tanaka Tanaka 2:17
5. "aqualife"   Hirasawa, Tanaka Tanaka 2:51
6. "different≠another"       2:21
7. "anothersmell"   instrumental Tanaka 1:47
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) Tanaka Tanaka 2:52
10. "marvel"       2:56
11. "natural" (ナチュラル nachuraru) Tanaka Tanaka 2:55
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 (1981-03-25) Warner-Pioneer LP K-12005W
CS LKF-7025
January 25, 1992 (1992-01-25) 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 (2002-05-10)
July 4, 2014 (2014-07-04)		 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 (2003-12-20) 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.
  • The album's single was reissued on CD on a paper sleeve to replicate its original packaging with the band's other Warner-Pioneer released singles as part of the Tower Records exclusive Warner Years Singles Box box set in 2012.

References

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External links

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