Neuromantic (album)
Neuromantic is Yukihiro Takahashi's self-produced 1981 album and featured his YMO colleagues Haruomi Hosono and Ryuichi Sakamoto on keyboards. Tony Mansfield and Phil Manzanera also played on the album. The title of William Gibson's novel Neuromancer is inspired by this album's title, which is a pun on the early 1980s British fashion movement, the New Romantics.
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| Released | May 24, 1981 | |||
| Recorded | March – May 1981 | |||
| Studio | Various
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| Length | 40:38 | |||
| Label | Alfa, ¥EN | |||
| Producer | Yukihiro Takahashi | |||
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Track listing
All lyrics are written by Yukihiro Takahashi and Peter Barakan; all music is composed by Takahashi, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Glass" | 6:03 | ||
| 2. | "Grand Espoir" (大いなる希望 Ōinaru Kibō) | Haruomi Hosono, Barakan | Hosono | 4:38 |
| 3. | "Connection" | 5:05 | ||
| 4. | "New (Red) Roses" (神経質な赤いバラ Shinkeishitsuna Akai Bara) | instrumental | Takahashi, Kenji Omura | 3:49 |
| 5. | "Extra-Ordinary" (非・凡 Hi-Bon) | 4:26 | ||
| 6. | "Drip Dry Eyes" | Chris Mosdell | 5:31 | |
| 7. | "Curtains" | Ryuichi Sakamoto | 3:41 | |
| 8. | "Charge" | instrumental | 2:34 | |
| 9. | "Something in the Air" (予感 Yokan) | 4:51 |
Personnel
- Yukihiro Takahashi – vocals, drums, keyboards, mixing
- Haruomi Hosono – keyboards
- Ryuichi Sakamoto – keyboards
- Kenji Omura and Phil Manzanera – guitars
- Tony Mansfield – keyboards, backing vocals
- Andy Mackay – saxophones, oboe
- Hideki Matsutake – computer programming and operation
- Shoro Kawazoe – executive producer
- Yukimasa Okumura, Hiromi Kanai, Tomohiro Itami – artwork
- Mitsuo Koike – engineer
- Steve Nye – engineer, mixing
- Ian Little, Renata Blauel, Yoshifumi Ito – assistant engineer
- Masayoshi Sukita, Sheila Rock – photography
- Kazusuke Obi – artist relations
- Hiroshi Kato, Toshi Yajima – recording coordination
- Lorraine Kinman – stylist
- Takeshi Fujii – equipment
- Peter Barakan, Yoichi Ito – management
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