Landsale (album)

Landsale
Studio album by P-Model
Released	April 25, 1980
Recorded	February 1980
Studio	Aoi Studio 1st (Recording) & 7th (Mixing), Azabu-Jūban, Minato, Tokyo
Genre	Progressive rock Baroque pop New Wave Technopop
Length	37:28
Label	Warner-Pioneer
Producer	P-Model
P-Model chronology
In a Model Room (1979) Landsale (1980) Potpourri (1981)
Singles from Landsale
"Missile" c/w ""Love" Story" Released: April 25, 1980 WQCQ-298

Landsale is P-Model's second album. It has a sound similar to the band's previous album, In a Model Room, although it's harsher (with the exception of the opening track "Ohayo", whose strings and piano hinted what direction P-Model leader Susumu Hirasawa would take with his music). The album deals with criticizing "the System" and the unnecessary formalities it imposes in society, with sarcastic lyrics. Bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama contributes three songs, based around the album's concept as well as the band's image, the last of which, "Globe", was made in 2 hours on the final day of recording to meet a track number quota under the production deadline.^[1] The album's mastering was interrupted by an earthquake, which made the Seiko lacquer cutting machine's needle fly off.^[2] Although P-Model's music was inspired by and carried heavy traces of punk rock, they were considered by the public in general as a technopop band due to their use of instruments & overall image falling within the genre, and were considered, alongside Hikashu and Plastics, one of the 3 big Technopop groups by the press. Created with sales in mind^[3] and recorded between legs of a country-wide tour, Landsale went on to become the band's first chart-topping album and the only one to top the mainstream charts. Hirasawa re-recorded the album (except for "Touch Me" and "Globe") in the style of the P-Model live shows of 1980 as Virtual Live-2 [P-Model Live at Shibuya Nylon 100% 1980].

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ohayo" (オハヨウ)		4:50
2.	"Daijobu" (ダイジョブ)		3:05
3.	""Love" Story" (「ラヴ」ストーリー 「Ravu」 Sutōrī)	Yasumi Tanaka	2:41
4.	"Doctor Stop" (ドクター・ストップ Dokutā Sutoppu)		3:21
5.	"Touch Me" (タッチ ミー Tatchi Mī)	Katsuhiko Akiyama	3:18
6.	"Na-Ka-Yo-Shi" (ナ・カ・ヨ・シ)	Akiyama	2:15
7.	"Missile" (ミサイル Misairu)		2:43
8.	"Little Boy" (リトル ボーイ Ritoru Bōi)	Tanaka	2:41
9.	"I Am Only Your Model"		2:34
10.	"One Way Love" (ワン ウェイ ラヴ Wan Wei Ravu)		2:47
11.	"Alien" (異邦人 Ihōjin)	Tanaka (music), Hirasawa	4:08
12.	"Globe" (地球儀 Chikyūgi)	Akiyama	3:04

The romanization of the tracks' titles on the album's center labels on the record release (as well as sources beside Hirasawa's official website) use slightly different romanizations: "Ohayo", is titled with a macron; "Daijobu" doesn't have the ending "u"; ""Love" Story" uses quotation brackets (standard brackets on Hirasawa's website), "Na-Ka-Yo-Shi" uses centered dots (Hirasawa's website gives no linking punctuation) and the "Shi" lacks the "h"; "Alien" and "Globe" are listed by their romanized titles instead of the translated ones.

Personnel

P-Model - Production, Arrangements, Lead Vocals on "I am Only Your Model"

• Susumu Hirasawa - Vocals, Backing vocals on "Touch Me", Guitar, Synthesizer
• Yasumi Tanaka - Combo organ, Synthesizers, Sequencer, Piano on "Ohayo", Backing vocals
• Sadatoshi Tainaka - Drums
• Katsuhiko Akiyama - Bass, Drum machine, Synthesizer, Piano on "Na-Ka-Yo-Shi", Backing vocals, Lead Vocals on "Touch Me"

Guest musicians & production

• Noriko Amano Group - Strings on "Ohayo"
• Makoto Furukawa - Engineering, Mixing
• Michio Kawamata & Shunichi Kusayanagi - Assistant Engineering

Staff

• Tomonari Sassa - Direction
• Yūichi Hirasawa (credited as "You Hirasawa") - Art director
• Takuya Usami & Hideki Namai - Photography
• Model House - Productive Management
• Thanks to: 21st Wonderland, Yūkun, Āchan, Masakazu Iwanari & many others

Release history

Date	Label(s)	Format	Catalog	Notes
April 25, 1980	Warner-Pioneer	LP	K-10020W
		CS	LKF-5038
January 25, 1992	Warner Music Japan	CD	WPCL-604	Released (alongside In a Model Room and Potpourri) a month before the release of P-Model.
May 10, 2002 July 4, 2014	Chaos Union, Teslakite		CHTE-0005	Remastered by Hirasawa. Part of Disc 1 of the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set, alongside In a Model Room. Re-released with new packaging by Kiyoshi Inagaki.
November 20, 2003	Warner Music Japan, sky station, SS RECORDINGS		SS-102	Packaged in a paper sleeve to replicate the original LP packaging. Includes new liner notes by music industry writer Dai Onojima.

• "Daijobu" is included on the Burst! New Wave 1980 various artists compilation.
• 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

1. Akiyama, Katsuhiko. 先ずは、曲作りから！ [First of All, the Songwriting!]. 秋山勝彦の宅録日記 [Katsuhiko Akiyama's Home Recording Diary] (in Japanese).
2. https://twitter.com/hirasawa/status/632899746412167168 & https://twitter.com/hirasawa/status/632900937225408512
3. "『カルカドル』は、音と言葉が瞬間的に創りあげた世界" [Karkador is a World Created Instantaneously from Music and Words]. Takarajima (in Japanese). No. 12 (Takarajimasha). December 1985. p. 140.

External links

• Landsale at NO ROOM - The official site of Susumu Hirasawa (P-MODEL)
• Landsale at MusicBrainz
• Landsale at SS RECORDINGS Official Site