Eiichi Ohtaki — Kimi wa Tennen Shoku
A Long Vacation · 1981
Label: Niagara/CBS Sony · Genre: City Pop / Pop Rock · From: Tokyo, East Asia
A Long Vacation was Japan's best-selling album of 1981 and one of the best-selling Japanese albums ever — over a million copies on its way to becoming a national institution. Eiichi Ohtaki drew on Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Brian Wilson's studio perfectionism, and a deep love of American pop to create something entirely Japanese: lush, immaculate, nostalgic. Kimi wa Tennen Shoku — You Are A Natural Colour — is its opening statement, a song of such uncomplicated warmth that it has never stopped sounding like a beginning.
Did you know: A Long Vacation won Best Album at the 23rd Japan Record Awards in 1981. Ohtaki died suddenly on December 30, 2013, reportedly choking while eating. He was 65. The speed and ordinariness of his death after such a careful, perfectionist life struck Japan's music world deeply.
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