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Another Place (Hiroshima Album)
''Another Place'' is a studio album by American jazz band Hiroshima, released in 1985 by Epic Records. The album was notably the first gold record released by the band and was on the Billboard jazz chart for over a year. Reception '' Billboard'' referred the album as an "interesting, though rather lightweight, brand of pop/fusion." AllMusic rated the album two stars out of five. Track listing Album Cover The photograph on the album cover depicts a beach with two pegs stuck in the sand and wire appearing as though it connects them to a sea stack A stack or sea stack is a geology, geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast, formed by Coastal_erosion#Wave_action, wave erosion. Stacks are formed over time by wind and wate ... in the distance. It was taken by John Pfahl in 1975 and is titled "Triangle, Bermuda." Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References {{Authority control 1985 albums Epic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroshima (band)
Hiroshima is an American band formed in 1974 that incorporates Japanese instruments in its music. Hiroshima has sold over four million albums around the world. Biography Dan Kuramoto, Hiroshima's leader, is from East Los Angeles. He attended California State University, Long Beach, then led its Asian-American studies department. Through playing in a band on weekends he met June Kuramoto, a native of Japan who grew up in Los Angeles and played ''koto'', a Japanese stringed instrument. Kuramoto admired Earth, Wind, and Fire for the way it combined jazz and R&B, and Santana for his identification with Latinos. He wanted to create a band that would represent Asian Americans. He named it after the Japanese city Hiroshima, which was mostly destroyed by an atomic weapon at the end of World War II. Hiroshima's debut album sold more than 100,000 copies in its first three months. The band's second album yielded the song "Winds of Change", which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |