Tin Pan Alley (Reissue)

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to a collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District of Manhattan. Haruomi Hosono (Apryl Fool, Happy End, Yellow Magic Orchestra), Masataka Matsutoya (music producer, arranger, keyboard player and composer married to popstar Yumi Arai), Shigeru Suzuki (also guitarist in Happy End) and drummer Tatsuo Hayashi (later on in fusion prog-bands such as Aragon and Parachute) took the name for granted. Their 1975 self-titled debut is still one of the most sophisticated venture in the so-called city pop scene.

Tracklist

1: Caramel Rag
2: Chopper's Boogie
3: Heart Boiled Town
4: Inspired By the Moon
5: Choo Choo Gatta Got '75
6: She Is Gone
7: Girl With Freckles
8: Jackson
9: Yellow Magic Carnival
10: Ballade of Aya