Tatsuro Yamashita — Love Space
Spacy · 1977
Label: RCA · Genre: City Pop / Jazz Fusion · From: Tokyo, East Asia
Spacy is Tatsuro Yamashita's second solo album and the record that established his approach fully — a seamless fusion of American soul, AOR, and sophisticated pop production that became the blueprint for City Pop at its most immaculate. Love Space opens the album and sets the tone: warm, polished, deeply grooved, impossible to categorise. Yamashita reportedly obsessed over individual sounds in the studio with a perfectionism that would only intensify as his resources grew. For You, five years later, would be his commercial peak; Spacy is where the method crystallised.
Did you know: Tatsuro Yamashita is one of the few Japanese artists who has never licensed his catalogue for streaming — his music is famously absent from Spotify and Apple Music, a decision driven by his belief in physical formats and careful curation. This makes Spacy a genuine vinyl discovery for many listeners.
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