Tag: jp-alt-files
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THE SUSUMU HIRASAWA FILES VOL.3- BEFORE THE FREEZE
The year is 1984, and the world is moving incredibly fast. Everyone is carrying a Walkman, listening to new music and AOR, and adjusting their eyes to the bright neon lights that weren’t on these streets before, or at least not in this density. Young people frequent clubs, go on late-night drives in stylish cars,…
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THE SUSUMU HIRASAWA FILES #2:THE P-MODEL DAYS
New Year’s Day 1979, Hirasawa family house in Kameari, Tokyo. The members of freshly dead Mandrake and Susumu’s brother, Yuichi, sat around and discussed the band’s future. Progressive rock wasn’t cutting it anymore for Mandrake, and the growing pains connected to the genre’s decline in Japan propelled them to change their artistic direction. At the…
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SUSUMU HIRASAWA FILES #1- THE MANDRAKE DAYS
The beginnings of Susumu Hirasawa’s legendary career