Original pressing - never for sale / promo only!
We had stocked a few copies of the repress, so a modified description of that LP is also include below.
Catalog number: NCL 0001
Media: VG+ (Mark on A side that doesn't affect play, everything else is pristine)
Sleeve: VG (Does not include printed inner sleeve and the outer sleeve may be a replacement, isn't numbered, and has minor cutout on top.)
Not a photo of actual LP
Originally recorded in 1986 for celebrated fashion designer Mitsuhiro Matsuda's Nicole clothing brand. Never officially available before, Nicole was only distributed as a limited promotional item offered to attendees and participants of the 1986 fashion show for the Nicole brand's Spring and Summer collection. Fukamachi's moody magnum opus has become a sort of holy grail for fans of Japanese ambient, jazz, and synth music alike --and rightly so. Meticulously conceived, smooth and subtle, Nicole sounds like it came from an ethereal land where Erik Satie and Art of Noise lived together, a sublimely cinematic listening experience perhaps best described by renowned Japanese music writer Masaharu Yoshioka, aka The Soul Searcher: "If you are driving down the Autobahn at 160 km/h, or even 80 km/h, and Jun's music starts playing on the car stereo, the windshield will instantly turn into your own personal silver screen."
Track List:
- Morning Glow
- Breathing New Life
- Garden
- Urban Square
- Nile Blue
- Shining Through
- Early Summer Roses
- At The Cutting Edge
