Crossover (Yoshinori Sunahara album)

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Crossover
Crossover yoshinori sunahara cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1, 1995 (1995-09-01)
Genre Electronic
Length74:39
Label Ki/oon Records
Producer Yoshinori Sunahara
Yoshinori Sunahara chronology
Crossover
(1995)
Take Off and Landing
(1998)

Crossover is the debut solo studio album by Yoshinori Sunahara. It was released on Ki/oon Records on September 1, 1995. [1] [2] Most of the album was created using samplers. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Times 7/10 [4]

Charlie Porter of The Times gave the album a 7 out of 10, commenting that Sunahara's cover of Rah Band's "Clouds Across the Moon" is the best song on the album. [4]

Track listing

Japanese edition
No.TitleLength
1."MFRFM (Music for Robot for Music)"6:03
2."Stinger Stingray"7:05
3."Whirlpool"6:28
4."Silver Ripples"6:36
5."The Long Vowel"1:07
6."Huraloop"6:50
7."Muddy Water"6:34
8."Elegant World"10:28
9."Clouds Across the Moon"5:15
10."Overtime Work"7:10
11."Huraloop (Audio Active Remix)"5:47
12."MFRFM (Armed)"5:43
Total length:74:39
German edition
No.TitleLength
1."MFRFM (Music for Robot for Music)"6:03
2."Stinger Stingray"7:05
3."Whirlpool"6:28
4."Silver Ripples"6:36
5."The Long Vowel"1:07
6."Huraloop"6:50
7."Muddy Water"6:34
8."Elegant World"10:28
9."Clouds Across the Moon"5:15
10."Overtime Work"7:10
Total length:63:37

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References

  1. "CROSSOVER". Sony Music Entertainment Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  2. "CROSSOVER | 砂原良徳". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  3. "砂原良徳 (page 2 of 3)". CD Journal (in Japanese). April 14, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  4. 1 2 Porter, Charlie (January 24, 1998). "New album releases". The Times . p. 11. What's best is the first known cover of that Eighties space-age weepy, Clouds Across the Moon by the Rah Band, which sounds as if it were performed by an Oriental Bucks Fizz.