is the first album by Kaku P-Model, a solo continuation of

P-Model P-Model (also typeset as P-MODEL and P. Model) was a Japanese electronic rock band started in 1979 by members of the defunct progressive rock band Mandrake. The band has experienced many lineup revisions over the years but frontman Susumu Hiras ...

led by

Susumu Hirasawa is a Japanese musician and composer. In the fifth year of elementary school, Hirasawa took up the electric guitar, inspired by the surf and instrumental rock bands he heard on the radio and on TV, later joining his junior high school's band. ...

Overview

''Vistoron'' has a

dystopia A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

n theme, something that was especially prominent in Hirasawa's work for a number of years starting with 2003's ''

Blue Limbo ''Blue Limbo'' is the ninth solo album by Susumu Hirasawa. Background The dystopian themes of the album were influenced by the Iraq War and the remaining traces of the Cambodian Civil War. One day before its release, "High-Minded Castle" and a n ...

''. The album's

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

concept story is about

mass media Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information ...

sending out "Anti-Vistoron" to show people false images of the world, and Hirasawa's investigation of the mysterious "Ashu-on" lifeform.

Track listing

*"Adore me, I am TV" contains a sample of the

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, delivered by then-

President of the United States The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

of America

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. *"Cruise Psyclaon" contains a sample of "Cultivation" by Susumu Hirasawa, from the album ''

Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack ''Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack'' is the soundtrack to the TV series ''Paranoia Agent'' composed by Susumu Hirasawa. The CDs catalog number is #5274, and is labeled by Geneon Entertainment, the same company that holds the English language rig ...

''. *"Vistoron" contains a sample of

min'yō , ''Nihon min'yō'', Japanese ''min'yō'' or Japanese folk music is a genre of traditional Japanese music. Characteristics Styles Many ''min'yō'' are connected to forms of work or to specific trades and were originally sung between work ...

-style singing, performed by Hiroshi Harada, on "Skeleton Coast Park" by Susumu Hirasawa, from the album ''

Water in Time and Space is Susumu Hirasawa's first solo album. Background In December 1988, Hirasawa decided to put his post-punk/ new wave band P-Model on hiatus after spending two years being unable to arrange a recording deal, feeling that the group's continued ex ...

''.

References

External links

''Vistoron''
{{Authority control Susumu Hirasawa albums 2004 debut albums