Virtual Rabbit
| Virtual Rabbit | ||||
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| Studio album by Susumu Hirasawa | ||||
| Released | May 25, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
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| Length | 32:06 | |||
| Label | Polydor K.K. | |||
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| Susumu Hirasawa chronology | ||||
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Virtual Rabbit is Susumu Hirasawa's third solo album.
Overview
Virtual Rabbit was made in the same style as the previous two albums, although greater in scale, with compositions more in line with Hirasawa's later solo work, and with a larger focus on orchestral styled instrumentation. It explores reality, religion, science, and dreams.
With this album, Hirasawa continued to digitize his production methods, namely the switch to using Amiga software Bars & Pipes whose ability to handle hundreds of MIDI tracks freed Hirasawa from the constraints of the Korg M1's built-in sequencer and the studios' multitrack recorders. The use of guest musicians in the album is almost completely reduced to choral backing.
This was the first Hirasawa album to be engineered by Masanori Chinzei, who has since worked as engineer on all of Hirasawa's music.
Track listing
All tracks written by Susumu Hirasawa, except "Bandiria Travellers" with string & choral arrangements by Hirasawa & Kayo "Kokubo" Matsumoto.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Stormy Sea" (嵐の海 Arashi no Umi) | 3:32 |
| 2. | "Bandiria Travellers" (バンディリア旅行団 Bandiria Ryōkōdan) | 5:00 |
| 3. | "Hawk In My Heart, Don't Take The Moon Away [Planet Eagle]" (我が心の鷲よ 月を奪うな[プラネット・イーグル] Waga Shin no Washi yo, Tsuki wo Ubau na [Puranetto Īguru]) | 3:31 |
| 4. | "Virtual Rabbit" (ヴァーチュアル・ラビット Vāchuaru Rabitto) | 3:15 |
| 5. | "Please Push "UNDO" Key" (UNDOをどうぞ UNDO wo Dōzo) | 4:08 |
| 6. | "Clear Mountain Top" (山頂晴れて Sanchō Harete) | 4:09 |
| 7. | "Quiet Sea" (静かの海 Shizuka no Umi) | 3:25 |
| 8. | "Immortal Man" (死のない男 Shi no Nai Otoko) | 2:56 |
| 9. | "A Tree Of Sun" (太陽の木 Taiyō no Ki) | 5:55 |
| 10. | "Russian Tobiscope" (ロシアン・トビスコープ Roshian Tobisukōpu) | 1:55 |
Personnel
- Susumu Hirasawa - Vocals, Classical guitar, Electric guitar, Synthesizers, Sampler, Drum machine, Programming, Acoustic Piano (3), Toy Accordion (4), AMIGA 2500 ("Say" program - Narration (5)), Auto Harp (7), Production
- Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus - Backing Vocals (2)
- Teru Uchida Strings - Strings (2)
- Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi (courtesy of Alfa Records) - Fretless Bass (3, 9), Backing Vocals (5-6)
- Osamu Takeuchi and Chūju Yamaguchi - Backing Vocals (4-6)
- Yasuchika Fujii and Kazuhiko Fujii (courtesy of Alfa Records) - Backing Vocals (5-6)
- Mamoru Kikuchi (credited as "WONDER WHO?") - Narration/Old Man's Voice (5)
- Jun Togawa (courtesy of Tōshiba EMI) - Vocals (6)
- Masanori Chinzei - Engineering, Backing Vocals (4-6)
- Yūichi Kenjo - Production (Executive), Backing Vocals (4-6)
Release history
| Date | Label(s) | Format | Catalog | Notes |
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| May 25, 1991 | Polydor K.K. | CD | POCH-1084 | |
| July 1, 2005 | Universal Music Japan, Universal Sigma | Digital Download | none | |
| February 29, 2012 | Chaos Union, Teslakite | CD | CHTE-0056 | Remastered by Masanori Chinzei. Part of Disc 3 of the HALDYN DOME box set, alongside "Haldyn Hotel [Fractal Terrain Track]". "Bandiria Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]" is on Disc 1 (CHTE-0054). |
| September 24, 2014 | Universal Music Japan | SHM-CD | UPCY-6911 | Part of Universal's "Project Archetype" (supervised by Osamu Takeuchi & Kasiko Takahasi). Remastered by Kenji Yoshino (supervised by Chinzei) with both original liner notes and new ones.[1] |
- "Bandiria Travellers" is included on the Detonator Orgun Music Special sampler disc.
- "Bandiria Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included, respectively, on the Detonator Orgun 1 and 2 soundtrack albums.
- "Stormy Sea", "Bandiria Travellers", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～ compilation.
- "Stormy Sea", "Bandiria Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Archetype | 1989-1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa compilation.
References
- ↑ Takeuchi, Osamu. "wilsonic works 41". wilsonic journal. Retrieved 15 November 2014.