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● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-185
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1980

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Vinyl LP with obi strip, pressed and printed in Japan
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● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-185
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1980

*** VINYL ONLY RELEASE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION COMING WITH THIS RELEASE ***

Includes unlimited streaming of 🇯🇵 JAPAN IMPORT, VINYL ONLY 🇯🇵 Soul Media – Memory Lane via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-185
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1980
● Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pad5vu3ZV9M
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The last album under the Soul Media name was Memory Lane, recorded in 1980. Inagaki stated at the time, "We tried to make this work as an anticipation of the future of fusion music.” Rather than being an extension of the jazz-rock sound he had explored in the 1970s, it was more of a new step forward at the turn of a new decade. Inagaki and collaborator Norio Maeda sought an unusual degree of perfection in terms of the songs, arrangements, and performances, with a view to going beyond the standard expected and taking the sound to a new level. Inagaki later commented on Maeda’s achievement with this album, saying, “This was executed meticulously.” It is an inspiring and fresh-sounding work that is still as vivid and exciting when listening to it today as it was when it was released!

(Words by Yusuke Ogawa - Universounds)

Tracklist:

A1 - Memory Lane
A2 - Somethin' Good Is Comin'
A3 - I Will Give You Samba
A4 - Dried Flowers
B1 - Culmination
B2 - Rain
B3 - Take My Hand
B4 - Double Images
B5 - Bye Bye So Long

Personnel:

Baritone Saxophone – Tadayuki Harada
Bass – Akira Okazawa
Drums – Yuichi Togashiki
Electric Guitar – Takehiko Tachiyama
Keyboards – Hiroshi Matsumoto, Norio Maeda
Producer – Jiro Inagaki
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Jiro Inagaki
Trombone – Hideo Kawaguchi
Trumpet – Akira Hashida, Kenichi Sano, Susumu Kazuhara, Takatoki Yoshioka
Vocals – Eri Ohno, Singers Three

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