Minoru Koyama / HARD TO BE A MAN (LP)

Akira Inoue is the producer and arranger, and the gorgeous members of Fusion Band Parachute (Tsuyoshi Kon, Tatsuo Hayashi, Mike Dunn, Nobu Saito, Akira Inoue) participate in the performance. It is a popular work that has been traded at a high price in the second-hand market in recent years as an excellent work of Japanese AOR ~ City Pop. Singer-songwriter Minoru Koyama, who won a prize in Yamaha's popular song contest known as "Popcon" in 1979, released his debut album "HARD TO BE A MAN" in 1980. Akira Inoue, who made Satoshi Terao's "Reflections" a million hit in the following year 1981, and Parachute's line-up are backing up, and developed urban rock-AOR sound that seems to be pioneering in terms of content. The melancholic cocktail lounge funk masterpiece "After Images", which was also included in the popular compilation "Light Mellow Rainbow ~Columbia Edition" supervised by Toshikazu Kanazawa, is "CHINA", which has a breezy and cheerful tune and an oriental melody. TOWN VIDEO LOVERS", a gospel-style mellow groove accompanied by a female chorus "HAPPY END", and a stylish fusion disco number "THE SUN IN MEXICO" written by singer Mami Kikuchi, released from Japan Records at the same time. Contains 9 songs. Comes with a nice obi and an insert that says "Rupert Holmes' New York is my Tokyo".

A1Up To Date Lines4:26
A2 Afterimage―After Images4:31
A3Gentlegie4:55
A4China Town Video Lovers4:15
B1Happy End5:45
B2 Idiote 4:45
B3The Sun In “Mexico”5:46
B4 Phoenix 4:55
B5 Memory Forest Traveler 3:57