''Big Body'' (stylized as ''big body'') is the ninth studio album by

P-Model P-Model (also typeset as P-MODEL and P. Model) was a Japanese electronic rock band started in 1979 by members of the defunct progressive rock band Mandrake. The band has experienced many lineup revisions over the years but frontman Susumu Hir ...

and the second by the band's "defrosted" lineup.

Overview

Following in the footsteps of the self-titled ''P-Model'', ''Big Body'' is another take on a

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themed album, putting greater emphasis on melodic variety.

Track listing

"Biiig Eye" contains a sample of " Loud, Loud, Loud" by

Aphrodite's Child Aphrodite's Child was a Greek rock and pop band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards, flutes), Demis Roussos (bass, acoustic and electric guitar, vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Silver Koulouris (guitar). The ...

(lyrics by

Costas Ferris Costas Ferris ( el, Κώστας Φέρρης; born 18 April 1935) is a Greek film director, writer, actor, and producer. He wrote the lyrics of Aphrodite's Child's album ''666''. His 1983 film '' Rembetiko'' won the Silver Bear at the 34th Berl ...

). All tracks arranged by Hirasawa, except 6 & 8 by Akiyama and 7 by Kotobuki. All track titles are stylized in all caps.

Personnel

;P-Model *

Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

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synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis ...

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("Say" program - lead vocals on "Binary Ghost"), programming,

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* - synthesizers,

vocoder A vocoder (, a portmanteau of ''voice'' and ''encoder'') is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation. The vocoder was ...

, programming, lead vocals on "Journey Through Your Body" and "Burning Brain",

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are u ...

Hikaru Kotobuki is a Japanese musician who worked with artists like Susumu Hirasawa (P-Model), and Jun Togawa. In the early 1980s, Kotobuki joined Morio Agata's tour as a keyboard player and guitarist. After Agata's tour, Kotobuki and Agata formed a band which t ...

- synthesizers,

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, programming, lead vocals on "Neoteny Box", backing vocals * Yasuchika Fujii -

electronic drum Electronic drums is a modern electronic musical instrument, primarily designed to serve as an alternative to an acoustic drum kit. Electronic drums consist of an electronic sound module which produces the synthesized or sampled percussion sounds ...

s ;technical * Masanori Chinzei () -

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( mixing and

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) * Motohiro Yamada (Eggs, Shep Studio), Harumi Ohta (Mix) - assistant engineers * Keiko Ueda (Tokyu Fun) -

mastering engineer A mastering engineer is a person skilled in the practice of taking audio (typically musical content) that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in dist ...

;visuals * Masahiro Kubo (VF) - art director, design * Hideki Namai -

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

* Kazunori Yoshida - hair & make-up * Akemi Tsujitani - styling * Yoshino Takatsuki - costume design ;operations * Osamu Takeuchi ( Polydor K.K.) -

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* I₃ Promotion -

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** Yūichi Kenjo - co-producer * Hiroki Yamaguchi - personal manager * Shoko Mashio, Saya Ohta, Yuki Abiko - publicity coordination * Tsutomu Fukushima - stage coordination * Masami Fujii, Roppei Iwagami (Pre Octave) -

publisher Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

;thanks * Tenney Tsuji,

Yuji Matsuda Yuji or Yu Ji may refer to: * Yuji Naka, is a Japanese video game programmer, designer and producer * Yu Ji (painter), a Qing dynasty painter and calligrapher * Yūji, a common masculine Japanese given name * Consort Yu (Xiang Yu's wife) (虞姬; ...

, Susumu Kunisaki, , AC Unit * Akiyama special thanks: Tetsuji Fujita

Release history

References

External links

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Universal Music Japan , often referred to as just Universal Music Japan or UMJ, is a Japanese subsidiary of the Universal Music Group founded in 1990. It is the largest subsidiary for a foreign company in the country regarding music distribution. The company is resp ...

's official site
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