This is the second album by Yoshinori Sunahara. It was made in '98 and kicked off his full on obsession with air travel and airplanes. This album is a bit more on the club music side with quite a few pounding house tracks. There are also a few downtempo hip-hop tracks. This album is just as solid as the other air flight album as far as a complete concept album goes. It's more spacey and dark than that album but it's certainly not gloomy. A lot of elements of island music show up in the tracks from steel drums to steel guitars. You travel from Japan, to Hawaii, to the Caribbean, to a Greek isle, until you come back to Japan by the end of the album. At some point in the album the sun goes down while your on the plane and the beats pick up. At sunrise it's quite serene and then things get romantic. I think this album sounds a lot like Towa Tei. His other albums do to but this one really gets closer I think. It's good stuff.
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