Take Off & Landing

Take Off & Landing Artist: Yoshinori Sunahara
Label: Sony
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988009020501
ASIN: B00004WZMR


Release Date: 2000-07-27

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Tracks:

  1. Information of Tua
  2. Cross Wind Take Off
  3. Magic Sunset
  4. Sony Romantic Electro Wave
  5. Sun Song '80
  6. 2300 Hawaii
  7. Count Down
  8. Journey Beyond the Stars
  9. Life & Space
  10. No Sun
  11. Good Timing of the World
  12. Summer
  13. My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose
  14. Welcome to Japan

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  1. Pan Am: The Sounds of the 70's
  2. Love Beat

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Yoshinori's distinct downtempo style with a little mid/dance experimentation.......2006-07-20

Insert "Heard this on Somafm's Groovesalad stream.... had to have it" etc... Just like all my other reviews.

Ok that being said, I love Sunahara's style. It's so simple, so kitsch, so cool, and if it doesn't make your head go up and down you are officially dead. There are a few mid to up tempo tracks (sun song 80, summer) that are what I would call "normal Yoshi stuff on speed, in a good way". And then there are a couple like Magic Sunset St and Journey Beyond the Stars that maybe Sony forced him to put on there to switch up the vibe and try to appeal to techno/dance heads.

Great album, get the import for extra cool points.

and I agree with the other reviewer, where is sunahara now???

4 out of 5 stars His best album, especially for fans of Groove Salad radio.......2006-02-17

My first exposure to Sunahara was hearing Sony Romantic Electro Wave on the Groove Salad radio station on the Internet, and I was immediately hooked. I ended up hearing three or four other tracks from him on the station, and I can say that I liked all of them. After delving through his back catalogue and hearing everything he's had to offer, I think that Take Off and Landing is his best work. The repetitiveness of his songs is a knock on him, and I can't argue against that claim. There are a few songs on here that I simply can't sit through in any mood, although there are also a couple I've managed to get used to and even appreciate over time. But whereas his Pan Am album can sound clunky and disjointed and his Lovebeat album cold and sterile (never mind his Crossover album unless you're strictly a fan of dance pop), Take Off and Landing is otherwise a lovely and textured album loosely based around a sci-fi/airport theme.

The aforementioned Sony Romantic Electro Wave is the first Sunahara track I ever heard, and it's still my favorite. I can and do listen to that track over and over. The woman's vocals are so heavily processed that I can only understand maybe half of the lyrics, but that only adds to the mystique and the heavenly bliss generated by the song. Any fan of mid-tempo "moody with a good beat" music who's curious about Sunahara should listen to this track to see if he's an artist that you'd be interested in exploring. There are faster, more danceable tracks on the album. But I think his mid-tempo songs are where he shines best. Other standouts for me are Sun Song '80 (which gets a nice bossa nova treatment on the Pan Am album) and the album closer Welcome to Japan. The haunting-but-beautiful My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose seems a little out of place on the album, but I still like it a lot.

Start with this album, and then branch out to the other albums if you like it. It's too bad we haven't heard anything from him recently. Maybe the Japanese fans get to see or hear him producing or DJ'ing on a regular basis, but his fans outside of Japan have a tough time figuring out what he's doing and if he'll ever put out another album. His official website is outdated and provides no clue as to what he's been up to. If anyone knows what's going on with his career, I hope someone leaves some info here.

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