Infected by Records

Alfa Records/1981. - Japanese new wave featuring Sandii and Makoto Kubota. a rhythmic tugging beat on several tracks, with pulsing bass and keyboards. the high voice is slightly irritating, but also comes across in a siouxsie sioux, debbie harry or missing persons sort of way. on ebay, this LP is currently not for sale, but the japanese reissue cd exists reissued in 2006 and sells for about $25. my Lp was priced at 2-. i assume the record should be $5-10 if offered. the lead singer here guest appears on YMO's multiples album and has many singing credits. now she is a hula dancer and has a website about it. the album cover is interesting, a heat/infrared image of a geyser or volcano. some of the songs are in Japanese, but this doesn't affect the overall appeal of this catchy little record. note a plethora of 'whipping' synths. overall grade B/needs more listens to find best tracks/most songs are effective and stand alone.

note: posted a few hours later: i listened to this one in full three more times this evening, and each time as background this album continued to mesmerize me. it started to sound very akin to siouxsie and the banshees japanese type songs, which is just fine by me. i would upgrade the album to B+ i will search it out on cd and make sure to tell a friend. good silky new wave with a twist.

here is an article from nippop:

http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-27/artist_name-sandii___the_sunsetz/