Virtual Rabbit
Virtual Rabbit is the third studio album by Susumu Hirasawa, released on May 25, 1991 via Polydor K.K.
Overview
Virtual Rabbit was made in the same style as the previous two albums, although greater in scale, with compositions more in line with Hirasawa's later solo work, and with a larger focus on orchestral styled instrumentation. It explores reality, religion, science, and dreams.With this album, Hirasawa continued to streamline his production methods, reducing the use of guest musicians in the album almost completely to choral backing.
This was the first Hirasawa album to be engineered by Masanori Chinzei, who has since worked as engineer on all of Hirasawa's music.
Track listing
Personnel
- Susumu Hirasawa – vocals, classical guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, sampler, sequencer, programming, acoustic piano, toy accordion, Amiga 2500, autoharp, production
- – backing vocals
- Teru Uchida Strings – strings
- Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi – fretless bass, backing vocals
- Yasuchika Fujii and Kazuhiko Fujii – backing vocals
- Mamoru Kikuchi – narration/Old Man's voice
- Jun Togawa – vocals
- Masanori Chinzei – recording & mixing engineer, backing vocals
- Masaru Arai, Koreyuki Tanaka, Meiji Takamatsu, Shinji Kobayashi ; Masanori Ihara, Tetsuto Kato ; Hideaki Tamura ; Yu Ishizaki, Motohiro Yamada – second engineers
- Reiko Miyoshi – mastering engineer
- Kiyoshi Inagaki – art director
- Hideki Namai – photography
- Kazunori Yoshida – hair & make-up
- Akemi Tsujitani – styling
- I3 Promotion
- *Yūichi Kenjo – production, backing vocals
- *Hiroki Yamaguchi – artist management, backing vocals
- *Masami Fujii, Takeshi Fujita, Tsutomu Fukushima – artist management
- *Hiroyshi Mitomi, Shoko Mashio – publicity coordination
- Polydor K.K.
- *Kazuyoshi Aoki – A&R coordination
- *Osamu Takeuchi – director, backing vocals
- AC Unit, Ouija Ltd.
Release history
- "Bandeira Travellers" is included on the Detonator Orgun Music Special sampler disc.
- "Bandeira Travellers " and "Clear Mountain Top" are included, respectively, on the Detonator Orgun 1 and 2 soundtrack albums.
- "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～ compilation.
- "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers ", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Archetype | 1989–1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa compilation.