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}} |Genre = |Length = |Label = Alfa, Edge |Producer = Akiro "Kamio" Arishima |Last album = ''Scuba'' (1984) |This album = ''Karkador'' (1985) |Next album = ''One Pattern'' (1986) }} ''Karkador'' is the sixth album by the Japanese electronic rock band P-Model. It was the first album where front-man Susumu Hirasawa was the sole remaining founding member and the only one to feature Tadahiko Yokogawa. This album was inspired from Hirasawa's dream journals, and follows the New Wave style of their preceding album, ''Scuba'', but with an expanded sound. ==Background and composition== ''Karkador'' was mainly inspired by the dreams of P-Model's vocalist Susumu Hirasawa. He had been seeing a Jungian counselor at a welfare facility for the mentally ill in Takayama, as he was in a troubled mental state at the time. The counselor suggested that he record his dreams in a notebook to aid his recovery. He developed a narrative based on those notes, and the lyrics were written from there. According to the Hirasawa Lyrics Tumblr and the ''Music Industrial Wastes'' book, the album title came from the name of a bird that he drew. "Every song from the album is linked together by a single story, and the job of the audience is to construct that story as they listen to them."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://hirasawalyrics.tumblr.com/post/61803163540/saiboogu-cyborg )〕 Due to Hirasawa's mental state at the time, the concept behind the album wasn't as neatly apparent as in previous albums. Songs were crafted through demos and rehearsals instead of through live shows; only one song from the album was played live prior to its release (as it had been released in a different form before the album). Sometime during the Scuba Tour Sadatoshi Tainaka, the band's original drummer, decided to leave after the tour's conclusion and moved to the Galápagos Islands to live as an observer of the archipelago's iguanas and overall ecology. He was replaced by Yasuhiro Araki, a huge fan of P-Model and drummer of then recently disbanded punk band Allergy (both bands appeared on the 1982 ''Rebel Street'' compilation and had gigged together on the Scuba Tour), whose precision-focused style brought a new aspect to the band. The new P-Model lineup played their first live show, a one-off, in April 19, and resumed their "Another Act" project of phonosheet releases in the same month with ''Shun 2nd''; with the creation of the official fan club "Moire Club" in January, P-Model could release their phonosheets by themselves, without resorting to indie labels. The band resumed activities in earnest in May, where they simultaneously released three phonosheets (which marked the end of the "Another Act" series) with songs written by each member and started regularly gigging with the 3-day long "10 Miles High" Shinjuku Loft event, were they played older songs that weren't regularly played by previous lineups. P-Model got signed to Alfa Records's sub-label for underground acts Edge (although it was originally reported that they signed to the Yellow Magic Orchestra-led new wave label ¥EN Records), which allowed them to use Alfa's studios and mixing equipment, which was of a far better quality than what they could use during their independent period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karkador」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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