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}} ''Potpourri'' is the 1981 third album of Japanese band P-Model. ==Overview== On the year of ''Landsales release, the technopop boom was heating. Band leader Susumu Hirasawa, recalling the period, said: "If I had released works in the same way, I certainly wouldn't be able to continue my musical career up to now". Feeling a state of crisis, he distanced P-Model from the genre, trying to drive trend followers through rebellious episodes. On a Nakano Sun Plaza Hall show P-Model got into an altercation with co-headliners Hikashu. On the band's day at the music festival "Pop the Hero" they replaced their colorful clothing and equipment for a muted getup (black, white, gray and blue), Hirasawa squeezed a tube of Yamato glue on stage during "Sophisticated" and P-Model held up a globe instead of playing "Globe". On a concert at the Yaneura, a leaflet by the dōjinshi magazine Rock-May-Kan titled "The Point of Coming to a Concert" was distributed while ''Landsale'' was looped endlessly through the PA system, the band did not play until the concertgoers started an uproar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://moderoom.fascination.co.jp/archives/p_history.txt )〕 At the same time, bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama's creative position was in an opposite direction to where Hirasawa wanted to take P-Model, so Akiyama was fired from the band, which stopped playing his songs. He was replaced by high school sophomore Tatsuya Kikuchi, a student of Hirasawa's at the Yamaha Synthesizer School. Kikuchi did not formally join the band while ''Potpourri'' was being recorded, leading Hirasawa to play all bass parts on the album. ''Poypourri'' has a harsher and more off-putting sound than previous albums, with P-MODEL employing completely different instruments and recording techniques, it's more guitar based than the keyboard-based previous albums, synthesizers are almost unused, Hirasawa incorporates aggressiveness in his vocals and more screaming, uses bizarre compositions and experiments with ska beats and sound collages. Unusual samples are preeminent and the chorus of the children's song "I Broke My Clarinet" is covered as the chorus of "film". The idea is of music as an industrial good rather than a consumer good, showing the original idea behind the band before they were consumed as a technopop band. The concert-going audience diminished due to the anti-pop sound, leaving only a core audience that would persist with Hirasawa throughout his career. 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「Potpourri (P-Model album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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