Virtual Rabbit is the third studio album by Susumu Hirasawa, released on May 25, 1991, via Polydor K.K.
Overview Virtual Rabbit was made in the same style as the previous two albums, although greater in scale, with compositions more in line with Hirasawa's later solo work, and with a larger focus on orchestral styled instrumentation. It explores reality, religion, science, and dreams.
With this album, Hirasawa continued to streamline his production methods, reducing the use of guest musicians in the album almost completely to choral backing.
This was the first Hirasawa album to be engineered by Masanori Chinzei, who has since worked as engineer on all of Hirasawa's music.
Track listing
Personnel Susumu Hirasawa – vocals, classical guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, sampler, sequencer, programming, acoustic piano (3), toy accordion (4), Amiga 2500 ("Say" program – Narration (5)), autoharp (7), production
additional musicians – backing vocals (2) Teru Uchida Strings – strings (2) Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi (courtesy of Alfa Records) – fretless bass (3, 9), backing vocals (5–6) Yasuchika Fujii and Kazuhiko Fujii (courtesy of Alfa Records) – backing vocals (5–6) Mamoru Kikuchi (credited as "WONDER WHO?") – narration/Old Man's voice (5) Jun Togawa (courtesy of Tōshiba EMI) – vocals (6)
technical Masanori Chinzei () – recording & mixing engineer, backing vocals (4–6) Masaru Arai, Koreyuki Tanaka, Meiji Takamatsu, Shinji Kobayashi (Mix); Masanori Ihara, Tetsuto Kato (Gold Rush); Hideaki Tamura (Eggs); Yu Ishizaki, Motohiro Yamada (Music Inn) – second engineers Reiko Miyoshi (Tokyu Fun) – mastering engineer
visuals Kiyoshi Inagaki (Asset) – art director Hideki Namai – photography Kazunori Yoshida – hair & make-up Akemi Tsujitani – styling
operations I3 Promotion Yūichi Kenjo – production, backing vocals (4–6) Hiroki Yamaguchi – artist management, backing vocals (4–6) Masami Fujii, Takeshi Fujita, Tsutomu Fukushima – artist management Hiroyshi Mitomi, Shoko Mashio – publicity coordination Polydor K.K. Kazuyoshi Aoki – A&R coordination Osamu Takeuchi – director, backing vocals (4–6)
Thanks AC Unit, Ouija Ltd.
Release history Date Label(s) Format Catalog NotesPolydor K.K.CDPOCH-1084Universal Music Japan, Universal SigmaDigital DownloadnoneChaos Union, TeslakiteCDCHTE-0056Remastered by Masanori Chinzei. Part of Disc 3 of the HALDYN DOME box set, alongside "Haldyn Hotel [Fractal Terrain Track]". "Bandeira Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]" is on Disc 1 (CHTE-0054).Universal Music JapanSHM-CDUPCY-6911Part of Universal's "Project Archetype" (supervised by Osamu Takeuchi & Kasiko Takahasi). Remastered by Kenji Yoshino (supervised by Chinzei) with both original liner notes and new ones.
"Bandeira Travellers" is included on the Detonator Orgun Music Special sampler disc. "Bandeira Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included, respectively, on the Detonator Orgun 1 and 2 soundtrack albums. "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～ compilation. "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers [Physical Navigation Version]", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Archetype | 1989–1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa compilation.
References
External links
Virtual Rabbit at iTunes Japan Virtual Rabbit at amazon.co.jp