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Romanesque

release date: March 21, 1988
company: Victor/Invitation
formats: cassette (VCF-15001), 12" vinyl (VIH-15001), 12cm CD (VDR-20001)
initial price: ¥1875
goodies: this poster may have been included with first copies sold

Tracklisting

Misty Zone (Sakurai/Imai)
Romanesque (Imai/Imai)
Automatic Blue (Imai/Imai)
Hearts (Sakurai/Imai)
Romanesque (Sensual Pleasures Mix)*

*available on CD only

Credits

Atsushi Sakurai: vocals & SE
Hisashi Imai: electric guitars
Hidehiko Hoshino: electric & gut guitars
Yutaka Higuchi: bass
Toll Yagami: drums & sampling percussions

additional musicians:
backing voice: Julie Fowell on "Romanesque (Sensual Pleasures Mix)"

all songs arranged and produced by Buck-Tick

directors: Junichi Tanaka (Victor/Invitation); Muraki Takafumi (Victor/Invitation)
engineer: Yasuaki "V" Shindoh
sampling operator: Yohko Sample Ueno
recorded at Victor Aoyama Studio, Magnet Studio
mixed at Victor Aoyama Studio

art direction + design: Ken Sakaguchi
photography: Masafumi Sakamoto
stylist: Sayuri Watanabe
coordinators: Takashi Furui; Akiko Ohno
chief promotor: Naoki Toyoshimia (Victor/Invitation)
all management: Shaking Hands Inc; Osamu Takagi; Yoshihiko Masuoka; Shotaku Yasuhara
lord [sic] manager: Shigeo Azami
artist producer: Kazuo Sawaki
supervisor: Kazumitsu Higuchi (Victor/Invitation)
special thanks to: La Kengington [sic]; Crazy Cat; Pearl; Yuko & Tomoko (Victor); Kumi Himeno

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Notes

Ranked #20 on the singles chart. 40,000 copies sold.

The title track is not from any major label album. Rather, it is a re-recording of a song on their indie album Hurry Up Mode.

Sold as a "mini-album", this would have been called an "EP" in other countries or possibly even a "single". In fact, this release was ranked on the singles chart and not the album chart.

Music videos were made for "Romanesque" and "Misty Zone". I am not sure who directed them.

This was the first Buck-Tick single to be released on the Victor/Invitation label and it was also released as a 12cm (5") disc, instead of the standard size of 8cm (3") for Japanese singles at the time.

This was the first time Buck-Tick worked with engineer Yasuaki "V" Shindoh. He would go on to work with them a few more times.

The was the first Buck-Tick music release to have artwork and design by Ken Sakaguchi, who would go on to work with the band for many years. Previously he did the artwork for the video More Sexual!!!!! released the month prior.

The vinyl version had different artwork for the cover. There were dotted lines and one was supposed to cut along the lines in order to reveal a poster. (I could never do this so the image of what the poster looks like is quite poor because one can only spread apart the sleeve housing so far to reveal the image.)

"Romanesque (Sensual Pleasures Mix)" is available on the CD release only. For that track, each member messed around with their respective tracks, creating the unique mix. It is the first song Buck-Tick has released a remix for.

Inside the liner notes, the Buck-Tick fan club was advertised, although it was mispelled as "Buck-Tick official Fun Club". Still, I'm sure members had fun in the fan club so why not call it 'fun club'...

The credit for "lord manager" should be "road manager".

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