Potpourri (P-Model album)

On the year of Landsale's release, the technopop boom was heating. Band leader Susumu Hirasawa, recalling the period, said: "If I had released works in the same way, I certainly wouldn't be able to continue my musical career up to now". Feeling a state of crisis, he distanced P-Model from the genre, trying to drive trend followers through rebellious episodes. On a Nakano Sun Plaza Hall show co-headlined with Hikashu, Hirasawa dove into the audience mid-show to fight sponsor-hired security guards that were beating up a woman.^[1] On the band's day at the music festival "Pop the Hero" they replaced their colorful clothing and equipment for a muted getup (black, white, gray and blue), Hirasawa squeezed a tube of Yamato glue on stage during "Sophisticated" and P-Model held up a globe instead of playing "Globe". On a concert at the Yaneura, a leaflet by the dōjinshi magazine Rock-May-Kan titled "The Point of Coming to a Concert" was distributed while Landsale was looped endlessly through the PA system, the band did not play until the concertgoers started an uproar which led to a backlash against the band.^[2]

At the same time, bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama's creative position was in an opposite direction to where Hirasawa wanted to take P-Model, so Akiyama was fired from the band, which stopped playing his songs. He was replaced by high school sophomore Tatsuya Kikuchi, a student of Hirasawa's at the Yamaha Synthesizer School. Kikuchi did not formally join the band while Potpourri was being recorded, leading Hirasawa to play all bass parts on the album.

Potpourri has a harsher and more off-putting sound than previous albums, with P-MODEL employing completely different instruments and recording techniques, it's more guitar based than the keyboard-based previous albums, synthesizers are almost unused, Hirasawa incorporates aggressiveness in his vocals and more screaming, uses bizarre compositions and experiments with ska beats and sound collages. Unusual samples are preeminent and the chorus of the children's song "I Broke My Clarinet" is covered as the chorus of "film". The idea is of music as an industrial good rather than a consumer good, showing the original idea behind the band before they were consumed as a technopop band.^[3] The concert-going audience diminished due to the anti-pop sound, leaving only a core audience that would persist with Hirasawa throughout his career.

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"junglebed I" (ジャングルベッドI jangurubeddo I)	instrumental		2:00
2.	"blue cross" (青十字 ao jūji)			2:36
3.	"junglebed II" (ジャングルベッドII jangurubeddo II)			3:49
4.	"blue print" (ブループリント burūpurinto)	Yasumi Tanaka	Tanaka	2:17
5.	"aqualife"	Hirasawa, Tanaka	Tanaka	2:51
6.	"different≠another"			2:21
7.	"anothersmell"	instrumental	Tanaka	1:47
8.	"film" (フィルム firumu)			2:52
9.	"monochrome screen" (モノクローム・スクリーン monokurōmu sukurīn)	Tanaka	Tanaka	2:52
10.	"marvel"			2:56
11.	"natural" (ナチュラル nachuraru)	Tanaka	Tanaka	2:55
12.	"disgusting telephone" (いまわし電話 imawashi denwa)			3:13
13.	"potpourri" (ポプリ popuri)			3:19

In all releases of the album, the titles consisted of Japanese characters are rendered only through the characters, except for title track, which is rendered as "potpourri (ポプリ)".

Personnel

P-Model - production, arrangements

Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar, bass
Yasumi Tanaka - combo organ, synthesizer, echo machine, backing vocals
Sadatoshi Tainaka - drums, cowbell, percussion, backing vocals

Staff

Makoto Furukawa - engineering, mixing
Yūichi Hirasawa (credited as "you hirasawa") - art director
Hōseki Hirasawa - calligraphy
Api Yomiya - photography
Kazuhiro Suzuki - production coordinator
Model House - productive management
special thanks to: Tatsuya Kikuchi, Masami Orimo

Release history

Date	Label(s)	Format	Catalog	Notes
March 25, 1981 (1981-03-25)	Warner-Pioneer	LP	K-12005W
March 25, 1981 (1981-03-25)	Warner-Pioneer	CS	LKF-7025
January 25, 1992 (1992-01-25)	Warner Music Japan	CD	WPCL-605	Released (alongside In a Model Room and Landsale) a month before the release of P-Model.
May 10, 2002 (2002-05-10) July 4, 2014 (2014-07-04)	Chaos Union, Teslakite		CHTE-0006	Remastered by Hirasawa. Part of Disc 2 of the Ashu-on [Sound Subspecies] in the solar system box set, alongside parts of the "Dual Perspective" & "Exercises for the Heavenizer" series of songs from 1981 & 1982. Re-released with new packaging by Kiyoshi Inagaki.
December 20, 2003 (2003-12-20)	Warner Music Japan, sky station, SS RECORDINGS		SS-103	Packaged in a paper sleeve to replicate the original LP packaging. Includes new liner notes by music industry writer Dai Onojima.

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

↑ "「Virtual Live2」を聴いた人へ：2000人の客の1人の記憶を回収しました。". 1979-1999+　［不法投棄］ (in Japanese). DIGITAL BISCUIT. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
↑ "P-MODEL / 平沢進バイオグラフィ". MODEROOM. Fascination, inc.
↑ アーティスト列伝　P-MODEL [Artist Chronicle － P-Model]. Keyboard Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. Autumn no. 370 (Rittor Music). October 2010. ISSN 1344-6371.

External links

P-Model

Studio albums	IN A MODEL ROOM (1979) LANDSALE (1980) Potpourri (1981) Perspective (1982) ANOTHER GAME (1984) KARKADOR (1985) ONE PATTERN (1986) P-MODEL (1992) big body (1993) Fune (1995) Electronic Tragedy/〜ENOLA (1997) Music Industrial Wastes〜P-MODEL OR DIE (1999)

Other albums	SCUBA (1984) PAUSE (1994) The Way of LIVE (1994)

Related	Susumu Hirasawa Shun Solar Ray Totsu-Gen-Hen-I

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