Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images)

by Jun Fukamachi

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Michael Feihstel Glad to see this brought back to life. Beautiful, important album, hopefully followed by countless other re-issues of rare, japanese gems. Favorite track: Urban Square.

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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This is a pre-order -> Shipping October 27th

Kraft digipack CD version with new liner notes by Masaharu Yoshioka

Includes unlimited streaming of Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios, housed in a kraft sleeve similar to the original promo-only release, with new liner notes by Masaharu Yoshioka.

Includes unlimited streaming of Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Morning Glow 07:00	buy track
2.	Breathing New Life 04:54	buy track
3.	Garden 05:31	buy track
4.	Urban Square 05:44	buy track
5.	Nile Blue 05:40	buy track
6.	Shining Through 05:45	buy track
7.	Early Summer Roses 06:40	buy track
8.	At The Cutting Edge 04:42	buy track
9.	Passion (Bonus Track / Digital & CD Only) 07:06	buy track

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WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the release of Jun Fukamachi’s highly coveted Nicole (86 Spring And Summer Collection - Instrumental Images) album, originally recorded in 1986 for celebrated fashion designer Mitsuhiro Matsuda’s Nicole clothing brand and never officially available before.

Only ever 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.

Nicole is available in two versions: a vinyl LP cut at Emil Berliner Studios, housed in a kraft sleeve similar to the original promo-only release, and a kraft digipak CD version. Both versions were made in cooperation with the artists’s estate and come with new liner notes by Masaharu Yoshioka.

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released October 27, 2017

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