YOSHINO FUJIMAL SACD Hybrid

A masterpiece City Pop album that Warner boasts is now turned into an SACD hybrid! The memorable 1st solo album of Fujimaru Yoshino, a legend who carved his name into the history of Japanese music, revived in high sound quality! Fujimaru Yoshino is active across many fields as a guitarist, vocalist, composer-arranger, and music producer. After working through the backing bands of Joe Yamanaka and Hideki Saijo, he led the legendary bands "SHOGUN" and "AB'S" and drove the Japanese music scene. Starting with his memorable guitar playing on songs everyone knows, such as "Momen no Handkerchief," "Amagigoe," "Yume Shibai," and "Ichigo Hakusho wo Mou Ichido," the recordings he has taken part in number well over 10,000 songs. He is one of the top guitarists Japan boasts to the world. This work is his first solo album, released in 1982. It is a record that currently enjoys huge popularity overseas as well, as a most important City Pop work earning fervent support around the world. Joining him are top-flight Japanese musicians such as Naoki Watanabe, Atsuo Okamoto, Yasuharu Nakanishi, Nobu Saito, and Makoto Matsushita, with Haruko Kuwana, EPO, and others on chorus. Furthermore, the members who recorded this work together became the core that, the following year, led to the formation of the super band "AB'S" - truly a historic masterpiece indispensable in telling the history of Japanese AOR and City Pop.

ワーナーが誇るCity Popの名盤が、SACDハイブリッド化! 日本音楽史にその名を刻むレジェンド、芳野藤丸の記念すべき1stソロ・アルバムが高音質で蘇る! ギタリスト、ヴォーカリスト、作・編曲家、音楽プロデューサーとして多岐にわたり活躍する芳野藤丸。ジョー山中や西城秀樹のバックバンドを経て伝説のバンド「SHOGUN」「AB'S」のリーダーとして日本の音楽シーンを牽引してきた。「木綿のハンカチーフ」「天城越え」「夢芝居」「『いちご白書』をもう一度」など誰もが知る名曲の印象的なギタープレイをはじめ、これまで参加したレコーディングは実に1万曲以上。日本が世界に誇るトップ・ギタリストの一人。本作はそんな彼が1982年にリリースした初のソロ・アルバム。現在、世界中で熱狂的な支持を集めるシティ・ポップの最重要作品として、海外でも大人気を誇る1枚。渡辺直樹、岡本敦男、中西康晴、ノブ斎藤、松下誠といった日本を代表する凄腕ミュージシャンたちに加え、コーラスには桑名晴子、EPOらが参加。さらに本作のレコーディングを共にしたこのメンバーが中心となり、翌年のスーパーバンド「AB'S」結成へと繋がったという、まさに日本のAOR～シティ・ポップ史を語る上で欠かせない歴史的名盤。