Paraiso (1978) ...
Japanese musician Haroumi Hosono leads what would become Yellow Magic Orchestra in an exotica fusion of RnB and Technopop...
Fujiyama Mama ...
Recorded Dec 77-Jan78 Yukihiro Takahashi and Sakamoto and HH play together only on one track. The band name was a rather obscure takeoff on a Captain Beefheart song title as rumor has it. This is often considered the definitive pre-YMO album though Takahashi's contemporarily recorded suave French-Pop album "Saravah" has all 3 future YMO members working together far more extensively. The style here is Exotica and more like a tropical band album than a synth album so musically this isn't much connected with YMO's style apart from YMO carrying over many exotica refrencesw on the debut, so Parasio is relatively distant from YMO (Cochin Moon is actually closer to YMO due to heavy synth use). There is synth though. Interestingly, Sakamoto did his own album of roughly this kind of sound though more pop / disco on his album Summer Nerves... Fan page ...Shambhala Signal ...
Femme Fatale ...
Paraiso (full album) ...
Ryuichi Sakamoto recorded another version of Asatoya Yunta on his Beauty album ...
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