P-Model/Susumu Hirasawa appriciation station

that should be ToR in both places, obv

The guitar solo on Chevron sounds like Fripp guesting on a '70s Eno vocal record.

Like probably most people on the internet, I first heard of him because of the Satoshi Kon soundtracks, and began to wonder about exploring further because of Frogbs. I've been poking around here and there for a month or two, feeling more "okay this is interesting but..." than really won over. But this week something shifted and now everything is starting to sound angelic. Been listening a lot to selections from Beacon and Big Body, and Kakeari Pop on repeat. All that has been awesome enough, but last night I heard The Iron Cutting Song, and now there's clearly no going back.

in a DJ set I played "Nice Nice Very Nice" and some people thought that was Fripp as well. I do think he might be a lapsed progressive rock dork - P-Model did evolve out of a prog band, after all - if you look for them you can find all sorts of King Crimson/Mike Oldfield influences on his albums. parts of the latest one even sound like Yes to me.

it has been awesome seeing his actual albums start to get attention. always found it a bit frustrating how much praise there was for Paprika and the Berserk stuff...reading some of those reviews all I could think was "an actual Hirasawa LP would take your head off"