Light in the Attic Records has announced the third volume in its Pacific Breeze archival series: Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987 is due out February 24. The 16-track release will be available in 2xLP, CD, and cassette formats and features cover art by Hiroshi Nagai, whose paintings also adorned the first two volumes in the series. Check out the album art and tracklist below.
Like its predecessors, Pacific Breeze 3 was curated by Light in the Attic’s Yosuke Kitazawa and dublab’s Mark “Frosty” McNeill. It includes music from Susan, Miharu Koshi, Chiemi Manabe, Parachute, and more alongside songs produced by Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yukihiro Takahashi.
Read Pitchfork’s feature “The Endless Life Cycle of Japanese City Pop.”
Pacific Breeze 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR & Boogie 1975-1987:
01 Naomi Akimoto: “Bewitched (Are You Leaving Soon)”
02 Atsuko Nina: “Tonkachi”
03 Miho Fujiwara: “Heartbeat”
04 Miharu Koshi: “Scandal Night”
05 Chu Kosaka: “Shirakechimauze”
06 Teresa Noda: “Tropical Love”
07 Makoto Matsushita: “Business Man Pt. 1”
08 Susan: “Ah! Soka”
09 Yukako Hayase: “Suiyoubi Madeni Shinitaino”
10 Parachute: “Kowloon Daily”
11 Hiroyuki Namba: “Tropical Exposition (Who Done It? Version)”
12 Pizzicato Five: “Boy Meets Girl”
13 Mari Iijima: “Love Sick”
14 1986 Omega Tribe: “Cosmic Love”
15 Osamu Shoji: “Pub Casablanca”
16 Chiemi Manabe: “Untotooku”