Fukamachi, Jun - Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images)

1986 anlässlich einer Modensschau verteilt erfährt ein weiterer Gral der japanischen Ambient/Jazz/Neoklassik den ersten offiziellen Release. Zeitlos. Subtil. Angenehm.



WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the release of Jun Fukamachi’s highly coveted Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images) album, originally recorded in 1986 for celebrated fashion designer Mitsuhiro Matsuda’s Nicole clothing brand and never officially available before. Only ever distributed as a limited promotional item offered to attendees and participants of the 1986 fashion show for the Nicole brand’s Spring and Summer collection, Fukamachi’s moody magnum opus has become a sort of Holy Grail for fans of Japanese ambient, jazz, and synth music alike…and rightly so! Meticulously conceived, smooth and subtle, Nicole sounds like it came from an ethereal land where Erik Satie and Art of Noise lived together, a sublimely cinematic listening experience perhaps best described by renowned Japanese music writer Masaharu Yoshioka aka The Soul Searcher:

If you are driving down the Autobahn at 160 km/h, or even 80 km/h, and Jun’s music starts playing on the car stereo, the windshield will instantly turn into your own personal silver screen.

Nicole is available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios, housed in a kraft sleeve similar to the original promo-only release, and a kraft digipak CD version. Both versions were made in cooperation of the artists’s estate and come with new liner notes by Masaharu Yoshioka.




Tracks:
01 Morning Glow 02 Breathing New Life 03 Garden 04 Urban Square 05 Nile Blue 06 Shining Through 07 Early Summer Roses 08 At The Cutting Edge 09 Passion (bonus track)