Tatsuro Yamashita
Moonglow
Air Records (Japan) 1979
AIR-8001 (LP) w/obi, original inner sleeve.
sleeve : NM-
media : EX/EX(some slightly surface noises.)
Released in 1979 as the first album by Tatsuro Yamashita after his transfer to Air Records, this is his seventh album in fact, and features many musicians associated with him, including Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Minako Yoshida, Shuichi Ponta Murakami, Akira Okazawa, Tsunehide Matsuki, Masaki Matsubara, Hiroyuki Namba, and Nobu Saito. Popular songs such as "Rainy Walk" and "Funky Flushin'" are included, but the mellow tune A4, which shows the influence of new soul by Curtis Mayfield and Leroy Huston, and B4, which quotes the US funk format as it is, are also good. The sound quality, which is a little lighter than that of the RCA albums, foreshadows the arrival of the 80's.