YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA – Live 1978
There was a CD release of a YMO title called “Live At Kinokuniya Hall 1978″ about 15 years ago, but I’m pretty sure that that set is not this one.
Mmmm — YMO, the hidden treasure of Japanese New Wave. They did have their digressions into kinda pappy New Age-y sounds at times, but when they were on, they were on. The material on display here in this live set mostly comes from their first self-titled album, a really fantastic effort. Trouser Press sez:
“For the technology-minded Japanese (who, after all, do have their own musical logic and traditions), the rock medium most suited to adaptation rather than bland mimicry has been electronic-oriented pop. By their third LP, YMO represented to Japanese kids a heterodoxy almost equivalent to the Sex Pistols and, in Japan at least, many times their commercial success.”
Nice one .
This sounds like pretty early YMO live
and interesting to hear the live mix balance of live and programmed.
Wanted is a cover of a Pink Lady song.
Props to Y Takahashi’s drumming as always – influential drummer beyond YMO.
The Trouser Press entry is a bit of a hoot (as some of them are)
Love the YMO.
Anybody remember Telex, a similar (in the poppy sense) band from around the same time from France? Been looking for that one forever …
Thank you. I enjoyed these tunes.
This sound was recorded for a FM radio program at two months before
“Live At Kinokuniya Hall 1978″. 18th Oct. 1978 at TOKYO MELPARK HALL.
This was absolutely first live performance of YMO. I’m positive, ’cause I was
there. Of cource I didn’t know about YMO. I was there for other guest Isao Tomita.
Yes, I now love the YMO.
new wave? sounds more like jazz/pop to me. wouldn’t sound out of place on the same bill as someone like Bob James, or Spyro Gyra, and i mean that in a bad way. sorry folks, this ain’t doin it for me at all.
Thanks..
i have a telex record ….
packed a thousand miles away.
I think I know the sound enginer for this album! What a result!