Mai Yamane - Tasogare (Yellow Vinyl)

Limited Clear Yellow Vinyl LP

This limited pressing reissues Tasogare on clear yellow vinyl under Teichiku Entertainment catalog number TEA-39, part of the City Pop on Vinyl 2026 program, with Lawson Entertainment's HMV record shop named alongside Teichiku on the release. It is a single LP, four songs to a side, and the jacket carries an obi strip printed with the running order of both sides.

Tasogare was Mai Yamane's first album, released in 1980. Makoto Matsushita arranged it and played its electric guitar parts, and it was his first work as a sound producer; Fujimaru Yoshino contributed two songs. The album first returned to CD through the Light Mellow's Picks series with Tower Records, and later to vinyl.

Before the album, Yamane won a prize in 1979 at the Yamaha Music Foundation's contest for young singers and made her debut the same year with the single "Gozen Reiji." She later sang on Yoko Kanno's music for Cowboy Bebop, including "The Real Folk Blues," and has recorded under the name a-sha since 2011.

The title song found a new audience with the rise of interest in city pop from 2017, when it was sampled by future funk artists among others. In 2019 Pierre Bourne, Young Nudy and Playboi Carti built the track "Pissy Pamper" on it; the song was never officially released because the sample could not be cleared. Teichiku's own notes for this edition describe the album as having shaken the world as a sampling source.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Tasogare
2. Heart for Sale
3. Get Away
4. Interlude / Yoreyore Boy

Side B

5. City Drive
6. Wave
7. Foolin' Myself
8. Hikari to Kaze to Nami to