Virtual Rabbit

 ( Susumu Hirasawa Albums ) 

Virtual Rabbit is the third studio album by Susumu Hirasawa, released on May 25, 1991 via Polydor K.K.

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Overview Virtual Rabbit was made in the same style as the previous two albums, although greater in scale, with compositions more in line with Hirasawa's later solo work, and with a larger focus on orchestral styled instrumentation. It explores reality, religion, science, and dreams.

With this album, Hirasawa continued to streamline his production methods, reducing the use of guest musicians in the album almost completely to choral backing.

This was the first Hirasawa album to be engineered by Masanori Chinzei, who has since worked as Audio engineer on all of Hirasawa's music.

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Track listing

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Personnel

• Susumu Hirasawa – vocals, classical guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, drum machine, sampler, Music sequencer, programming, acoustic piano (3), toy accordion (4), Amiga 2500 ("Say" program – Narration (5)), autoharp (7), production

additional musicians

• – backing vocals (2)
• Teru Uchida Strings – strings (2)
• Toshihiko "BOB" Takahashi (courtesy of Alfa Records) – Fretless guitar bass (3, 9), backing vocals (5–6)
• Yasuchika Fujii and Kazuhiko Fujii (courtesy of Alfa Records) – backing vocals (5–6)
• Mamoru Kikuchi (credited as "WONDER WHO?") – narration/Old Man's voice (5)
• Jun Togawa (courtesy of Tōshiba EMI) – vocals (6)

technical

• Masanori Chinzei () – Audio engineer & mixing engineer, backing vocals (4–6)
• Masaru Arai, Koreyuki Tanaka, Meiji Takamatsu, Shinji Kobayashi (Mix); Masanori Ihara, Tetsuto Kato (Gold Rush); Hideaki Tamura (Eggs); Yu Ishizaki, Motohiro Yamada (Music Inn) – second engineers
• Reiko Miyoshi (Tokyu Fun) – mastering engineer

visuals

• Kiyoshi Inagaki (Asset) – art director
• Hideki Namai – photography
• Kazunori Yoshida – hair & make-up
• Akemi Tsujitani – styling

operations

• I₃ Promotion
• Yūichi Kenjo – production, backing vocals (4–6)
• Hiroki Yamaguchi – Talent manager, backing vocals (4–6)
• Masami Fujii, Takeshi Fujita, Tsutomu Fukushima – artist management
• Hiroyshi Mitomi, Shoko Mashio – publicity coordination
• Polydor Records
• Kazuyoshi Aoki – A&R coordination
• Osamu Takeuchi – director, backing vocals (4–6)

Thanks

• AC Unit, Ouija Ltd.

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Release history

	Polydor Records	CD	POCH-1084
	Universal Music Japan, Universal Sigma	Digital Download	none
	Chaos Union, Teslakite	CD	CHTE-0056	Remastered by Masanori Chinzei. Part of Disc 3 of the HALDYN DOME box set, alongside "Haldyn Hotel Fractal". "Bandeira Travellers Physical" is on Disc 1 (CHTE-0054).
	Universal Music Japan	SHM-CD	UPCY-6911	Part of Universal's "Project Archetype" (supervised by Osamu Takeuchi & Kasiko Takahasi). Remastered by Kenji Yoshino (supervised by Chinzei) with both original liner notes and new ones.

• "Bandeira Travellers" is included on the Detonator Orgun Music Special sampler disc.
• "Bandeira Travellers Physical" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included, respectively, on the Detonator Orgun 1 and 2 soundtrack albums.
• "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Root of Spirit～ESSENCE OF HIRASAWA SOLO WORKS～ compilation.
• "Stormy Sea", "Bandeira Travellers Physical", "Virtual Rabbit" and "Clear Mountain Top" are included on the Archetype | 1989–1995 Polydor years of Hirasawa compilation.

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External links

• Virtual Rabbit at iTunes Store
• Virtual Rabbit at amazon.co.jp

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