A year after the breakthrough This Year's Girl, the Pizzicato Five once again transformed, this time into a sleek house music machine, releasing Sweet Pizzicato Five, a collection of sparse grooves over which Nomiya Maki becomes a disco diva.
The result is mixed -- for every "Flower Drum Song," a seven-minute spacy echo of a song, there's a "Catchy" or a "KDD," which overstay their welcomes at over seven minutes each.
The record is surprisingly free of the genre-bending inventiveness that usually marks their work.
Still, the stomping "Tout Va Bien" is a fine song, as is Takanami's "Cosmic Blues." The songs' potential didn't go to waste, however -- the hard-to-find vinyl only Pizzicato Free Soul album features some terrific remixes, which turned up later on other releases.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flower Drum Song | Pizzicato Five | Play | 07:58 | 18 MB | 54 MB |
| 2 | CatchyKonishi Yasuharu | Pizzicato Five | Play | 07:15 | 16 MB | 41 MB |
| 3 | Telepathy | Pizzicato Five | Play | 06:53 | 15 MB | 41 MB |
| 4 | CDJKonishi Yasuharu | Pizzicato Five | Play | 01:21 | 3 MB | 7 MB |
| 5 | Funky LovechildKonishi Yasuharu | Pizzicato Five | Play | 06:21 | 14 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Cosmic Blues | Pizzicato Five | Play | 06:10 | 14 MB | 39 MB |
| 7 | Banji Kaichou | Pizzicato Five | Play | 06:54 | 15 MB | 49 MB |
| 8 | Pari-Kore | Pizzicato Five | Play | 07:36 | 17 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Shock Ryouhou | Pizzicato Five | Play | 05:31 | 12 MB | 36 MB |
| 56 mins | 129 MB | |||||
| 42 mins | 270 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maki Nomiya | Composer |
| 2 | Pizzicato Five | Primary Artist |
| 3 | K-Taro Takanami | Composer |
| 4 | Konishi Yasuharu | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |