Akira* – Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy)

Akira Ito - Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy) album cover

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Label:	Green & Water – R28X-1003
Series:	Music For Inochi
Format:	Vinyl, LP
Country:	Japan
Released:	1986
Genre:	Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style:	New Age, Ambient

Tracklist

A1		序章華やぎ / Prologue, Into The Beauty
A2		水色の聖地 / W・A・T・E・R
A3		気の舞い / Dancing Spirits
A4		精美 / Essence Of Beauty
B1		神がみの遊び / Where Spirits Play
B2		祈り / Prayer
B3		生生流転 / Life Goes On
B4		終章青き久遠 / Epilogue, Out Of Endless Blue

Companies, etc.

Copyright © – Kohei Kitayama
Record Company – Polystar Co.,Ltd.
Recorded At – Green & Water Studio Funabashi

Credits

A&R [A & R Director] – Hiroshi Takigawa, Reiko Muto
Art Direction – Toshio Siratani*
Artwork By [Inner Drawing] – Nishi
Design – Toshiki Miyazaki
Directed By [Editorial Direction] – Kohei Kitayama
Executive-Producer – Katsusaburo Endo, Yasuo Morimoto
Management – Wonderland (36)
Oboe – Heitaro Manabe
Percussion – Izaba
Photography By – Yusuke Yoshino
Producer, Composed By, Arranged By, Synthesizer, Electric Bass, Piano [A. Piano], Percussion, Engineer, Mixed By – Akira*
Saxophone – Koichiro*
Violin [E. Violin] – Takashi Toyoda
Vocals – Mineko

Notes

Art Direction, Design (Nomade)
Special Thanks to Mori Associate
Use your headphone, please.
¥2,800

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Rights Society: JASRAC
Barcode: T4988 023 00165 4
Other: H•12•1
Matrix / Runout (A side label): R28X-1003A
Matrix / Runout (B side label): R28X-1003B

Other Versions (5 of 9)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy) (LP, Promo)	Green & Water	R28X-1003	Japan	1986
New Submission	Marine Flowers (CD, Album)	Green & Water	H35X-20003	Japan	1986
New Submission	Marine Flower - Science Fantasy (Laserdisc, 12", Stereo, NTSC)	Videographics	SS098-6014	Japan	1986
New Submission	Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy) (LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered)	Glossy Mistakes	GLOSSY007	Spain	2021
New Submission	Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy) (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Blue)	Glossy Mistakes	GLOSSY007	Spain	2021

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Reviews

MusicThatShapes Jun 21, 2022
https://www.instagram.com/p/CfEEhmOsqRy/

The greatest, most legendary New Age, Ambient series with the most awesome design of covers there is. Finally after years of searching it is completed.

It was 2018 when I first saw some of the covers mentioned in a blog post and got immediately caught by the natural design. Thought I will got for the first available copies immediately and quickly have them in collection. Would never imagine being 2022 year, the year I could get them! Their steady prices already in hundreds of usd/eur per copy. With minimum copies popping for sale here end there, usually sold out in a moment. I was indeed not able to get my first copy from the series up until late 2020. It been a madness to get here...

I could go for on and on, and yet there is probably not much to say. It is like going to a mountain resort hours and kilometers away from the civilization. Climbing the mountains, watching the night sky, diving deep into the forest and having a nice bath in nearby tarn, listening to drops of water... That and much more are these albums.

If I can pick 5 albums to a desert island I choose these, if its less than five I choose something else because since completing them it is like having them all or none...

PS: Ever since acquiring the first one, I never listened to any of the music. Was waiting to have them all and have a special afternoon with them. Which is today...

PPS: Jazz, Classical, Folk, Rock... Green & Water is none of them. It is also different from Environmental music. Welcome to Planet of Water and Land of Green.
komakinoNYC Oct 7, 2021
The album is getting re-released! Looks like a nice package

https://glossymistakes.bandcamp.com/album/marine-flowers-science-fantasy
domuse May 11, 2015
Soundtrack to the Laser Disc of the same name. Also released on CD as with the other 'Music For Inochi' releases.