Phonon 2555 Vision
album by Susumu Hirasawa
Phonon 2555 Vision is a live video album by Susumu Hirasawa. It contains recordings of the Phonon 2555 shows from 2012, part of the "Phonon" series of Hirasawa concerts. The number on the title represents the year of the performance on the Thai solar calendar.
Overview
The shows featured two guest performers: Yasuhiro Araki and PEVO 1go. Araki was the drummer of Hirasawa's New Wave band P-Model from 1984 to 1987, appearing on Karkador and One Pattern (one song from this period was performed on each show), PEVO 1go is the guitarist of the P-Model/Devo tribute band PEVO, who have collaborated with Hirasawa since the 90s. The concerts were the first to feature guest musicians (outside of singers brought as actors to Interactive Live Shows), since 2000's Philosopher's Propeller shows, and the second "Phonon" concert to do so since the Live Phonon ones from 1999. The instruments of the guests were incorporated on into the Phonon 2555 logo. Hirasawa played a Roland A-500PRO keyboard (later incorporated into his Studio WIRESELF setup) on the shows, the first time he's so live since Phonon 2551 in 2008. In the first and second shows the Fernandes PHOTON guitar was used for guitar solos, while in the third show Hirasawa used the EVO 0101Z guitar, a gift from Hisashi; it was the first show where he used it, and later turned it into his main Talbo guitar.
The Phonon 2555 setlists draw heavily from Hirasawa's soundtrack-related works, as well as rarely performed songs from all of his main solo albums (except Virtual Rabbit) and one from Araki's tenure in P-Model which was grandfathered into Hirasawa's solo repertoire, some of which hadn't appeared in live shows since 1994.
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