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''P-Model'' is the eighth studio album by P-Model and the first by the "Defrosted" lineup. ==Background== In the aftermath of the band's "freezing" in 1988, P-Model's members went their own separate ways. Frontman Susumu Hirasawa built the "Defrosted" lineup out of his solo backing band. Hikaru Kotobuki, the group's last keyboardist before its "freezing", kept working with Hirasawa as his touring keyboardist. He also introduced Hirasawa to the Amiga sequencing program "Bars & Pipes". Founding member Katsuhiko Akiyama reconnected in 1987, playing bass in 2 shows that year as part of the "One Pattern Band", a special lineup of the band were the still active founding members plus Keralino Sandorovich and former P-Model keyboardist Shunichi Miura (both from Uchoten) performed songs from the group's first 3 albums, which mostly disappeared from their setlists. Akiyama later founded the band Here is Eden, whose debut album was set to be produced by Hirasawa, who in the end only worked on 2 songs; Akiyama went on to appear on Hirasawa's album ''The Ghost in Science'' and to be the live bassist for the album's accompanying tour. A 1990 show on the "Error Force" event was billed to "P-Model", but was essentially a "One Pattern Band" show, with Miura replaced by Kotobuki and with both former P-Model drummers. In 1989, Hirasawa produced the album ''Maximum Kiss'' by alternative rock band The Groovers; Shigeki Nishimura, the group's lead singer, had some releases by his previous group, the punk band The Loods, produced by Hirasawa. Nishimura left the band afterwards, but Hirasawa kept collaborating with them, hiring bassist Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi for his backing band and using the whole group on his ''Virtual Rabbit'' album. In the last show of the Virtual Rabbit Tour, which featured BOB on bass & Kotobuki and Yoshinori Sunahara on keyboards as part of the backing band, a group of backing vocalists was brought out, including Akiyama and Groovers Kazuhiko & Yasuchika Fujii. P-Model officially came back in September 23, 1991 with the "Error of Universe" show on Hibiya Park's Open-Air Concert Hall, which opened with the Amiga program "Say" announcing the names of the lineup's members: Kotobuki, Groovers drummer Yasuchika Fujii, Akiyama and Hirasawa (Sunahara received an offer to join, but refused, as he was already in talks to join Denki Groove), immediately segueing into "Zebra",〔(Opening SE/Zebra live )〕 followed by a setlist consisting entirely of old songs rearranged into a new style. Although they did not play any of the songs from this album on "Error of Universe", they did a second performance in 1991 at the "I3 Days" event on the Shibuya On Air live house, where they played the album's first two tracks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://moderoom.fascination.co.jp/archives/p_live_90-93.txt )〕 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「P-Model (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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