Cornelius's Fantasma

ISBN-13: 9781501330179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Martin Roberts; Noriko Manabe

Opis

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce a series of albums under the name Cornelius which are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter ego, Fantasma (1997) played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map of Western music fans, while Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry. This book tells the story of Fantasma's emergence from the Shibuya-kei scene, and considers the wider impact of Oyamada's work both internationally and on Japanese popular music today.33 1/3 Global, a series related to but independent from 33 1/3, takes the format of the original series of short, music-basedbooks and brings the focus to music throughout the world. With initial volumes focusing on Japanese and Brazilian music, the series will also include volumes on the popular music of Australia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and more.