You Ishihara
Passivité
formula
Passivité (2025 Remaster)
Passivité
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | K | 7:44 |
| 2. | Nachbild | 5:40 |
| 3. | Immortal Nothing Blues | 5:44 |
| 4. | Crevice | 3:50 |
| 5. | Wednesday | 3:54 |
| 6. | Nightwalker | 14:40 |
| 7. | For You | 2:32 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara | Vocals, Guitar | |
| Michio Kurihara | Guitar | |
| Chiyo Kamekawa | Bass | |
| Koji Shimura | Drums | |
[CD info]
All songs written, arranged by You Ishihara
Performed by You Ishihara with friends
Produced by You Ishihara
Co-produced by Hidenobu Kaneda (Test/G.K.Planning)
Label Manager Toshiharu Tai (creativeman disc.)
Engineer: Soichiro Nakamura
Recorded at Inter Music Studio '96 - '97
except track 7 recorded at Total Media Center '80
Cover concept Ishihara
Design Yoshiaki (ONE'S CREATION)
All songs published by LUANDA MUSIC PUBLISHING INC.
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| creativeman disc | CMDD-00035 | Japan | CD | 1997 | ||
| Pedal Records | PDL-9701 | Japan | CD | 2004 | ||
formula (Deluxe Edition)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | formula | 21:23 |
| 2. | formula reverse | 21:05 |
| 3. | formula version 1.0 | 21:23 |
| 4. | formula reverse 1.0 | 21:04 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| iou ishihara | vocal, guitar, synthesizer, keyboard, effects | |
| michio kurihara | guitar | |
| tomohiro kitada | bass | |
| tatsuhisa yamamoto | drums | |
| soichiro nakamura | keyboard | |
all songs written, concrete conducted and produced by you ishihara
recorded, mixed & mastered by soichiro nakamura at peace music, tokyo 2019
This digital release is a "Deluxe Edition" which includes “version 1.0" of the tracks which were not included in the physical releases (LP/CD).
The additional tracks "version 1.0" and "version 1.0 reverse” are bustle sounds of the city with additional electronics but without the instruments and vocals.
This is the complete "formula”.
Is this a reflection of the world determined by some formula? Or a nebulous report, a product of complex entanglement between apathy and anonymous malice?
After the break-up of legendary psychedelic rock band "White Heaven” and "The Stars”, You Ishihara as of late has been active as “You Ishihara with Friends". For Ishihara, known as the sound producer for "Yura Yura Teikoku”, “Boris” and "Ogre You Asshole", this will be his first solo album in 23 years.
The music and song seem distant, in the background amidst the bustle of the city, neither ambient nor avantgarde. But nothing mellow either. Music that is sensual, never before captured, a conceptual work depicting the detachment between the music (Ishihara) and the World.
Ishihara is supported by Michio Kurihara who has been with Ishihara throughout White Heaven and The Stars, along with Tomohiro Kitada and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, and Soichiro Nakamura, another alumni of White Heaven, who also engineers the record.
Artwork concept by You Ishihara and realized by Shintaro Sakamoto.
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Bandcamp | Digital | June 25 2020 | 2020 | |||
formula (LP)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| M-1 / Side A | formula | 21:23 |
| M-2 / Side B | formula reverse | 21:05 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| iou ishihara | vocal, guitar, synthesizer, keyboard, effects | |
| michio kurihara | guitar | |
| tomohiro kitada | bass | |
| tatsuhisa yamamoto | drums | |
| soichiro nakamura | keyboard | |
all songs written, concrete conducted and produced by you ishihara
recorded, mixed & mastered by soichiro nakamura at peace music, tokyo 2019
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| zelone records | zel-021 | Japan | LP | October 2020 | ||
formula (CD)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| M-1 / Side A | formula | 21:23 |
| M-2 / Side B | formula reverse | 21:05 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| iou ishihara | vocal, guitar, synthesizer, keyboard, effects | |
| michio kurihara | guitar | |
| tomohiro kitada | bass | |
| tatsuhisa yamamoto | drums | |
| soichiro nakamura | keyboard | |
all songs written, concrete conducted and produced by you ishihara
recorded, mixed & mastered by soichiro nakamura at peace music, tokyo 2019
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| zelone records | zel-022 | Japan | CD | October 2020 | ||
Passivité (2025 Remaster)
| Tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | K | 7:44 |
| 2. | Nachbild | 5:40 |
| 3. | Immortal Nothing Blues | 5:44 |
| 4. | Crevice | 3:50 |
| 5. | Wednesday | 3:54 |
| 6. | Nightwalker | 14:40 |
| 7. | For You | 2:32 |
| Personnel | ||
|---|---|---|
| You Ishihara - Vocals, Guitar all tracks except 7, Vocals, Organ | ||
| Michio Kurihara - Guitar (1, 3, 4, 6, 7) | ||
| Chiyo Kamekawa - Bass (1, 4, 5, 6) | ||
| Koji Shimura - Drums (4, 5, 6) | ||
| Yojiro Nagano - Synthesizer (7) | ||
| Ken Ishihara - Drums (7) | ||
Released February 7, 2025
Produced by You Ishihara
All songs written, arranged by You Ishihara
Co-produced by Hidenobu Kaneda
Engineer Soichiro Nakamura
Recorded at Inter Music Studio 1996 - 1997
Except "For You" recorded at Total Media Center 1980
Remastered by Soichiro Nakamura at Peace Music 2021
Lacquers cut by Kevin Grey, Cohearent Audio
Designed by Takuya Kitamura
Originally released in 1997 by Test / Creativeman on CD in Japan.
| Release History | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Cat No | Country | Format | Date | Notes | |
| Black Editions | LP | 2025 | ||||
| Bandcamp | Digital | February 2025 | ||||
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