Pacific

About Pacific

Pacific is a 1978 album featuring instrumental compositions by Japanese musicians Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita. It is the first in the CBS/SONY Sound Image Series.

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Pacific is a 1978 album featuring instrumental compositions by Japanese musicians Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and Tatsuro Yamashita. It is the first in the CBS/SONY Sound Image Series.

The album shows a small island named Motu Fara that is part of the Avatoru Pass.

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Critical reception

Jen Monroe of Listen to This called the album "a classic," stating "its unabashed tropical nostalgia acts as a jumping off point for flitting between genres (lounge, funk, disco, rhumba, smooth jazz, Latin fusion, synth pop), all delivered in full-color with jaunty, winking songwriting."

Personnel

Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki, Tatsuro Yamashita – Music

Tsuguya Inoue (井上嗣也) – Designer

Shinichi Hashimoto (橋本伸一) – Director

Yuichi Maejima (前島祐一) – Engineer

"Teppei" Kasai (笠井“鉄平”) – Associate Engineer

Shinpei Asai (浅井慎平) – Photographer

Masatoshi Sakai (酒井政利) – Producer

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Notable quotes

“How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1st ed., 1798), Argument
“The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature. It was very far inland that I caught the first smell of the Pacific. When one has been long at sea, the smell of land reaches far out to greet one. And the same it true when one has been long inland.”
— John Steinbeck, (1962)
“You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? [...] They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life: a warm place with no memory.”
— Spoken by Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

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