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Kūchū Camp
Studio album by Fishmans
Released	February 1, 1996
Recorded	July~November 1995
Studio	Waikiki Beach
Genre	Dreampop, Dub, Neo-Psychedelia
Length	45:42
Label	Polydor Records
Fishmans chronology
Oh! Mountain Kūchū Camp Long Season

Kūchū Camp (Japanese: 空中キャンプ) is the fifth studio album by Japanese band Fishmans, released on February 1, 1996 on Polydor Records. The album was the bands most notable change in style, leading into a more psychedelic and dream pop sound while still retaining their earlier dub roots.

Kūchū Camp was the first studio album to introduce their new supporting multi-instrumentalist member Honzi, who would play for the last 3 years of Fishmans. The album name roughly translates to "Aerial Camp", with an secondary title/ official translation on the cover stating "Something in the air..."

Background

The album has a drastic musical style change in Fishmans discography due to the record change from Media Remoras to Polydor Records, which gave more creative freedom and a private studio given by the label called "Waikiki Beach".

Fishmans started recording in the Waikiki Beach in late 1995. Kūchū Camp became their most praised album in their home country, with two singles "Baby Blue" and "ナイトクルージング " pushing the band into occasional radio play.

Kūchū Camp was the roots for the idea that created Long Season, when Shinji Sato felt that the album felt like one long song with the track "新しい人" being a bonus track.

Track Listing

Personnel

Main Artists

Shinji Sato - Voice, Guitar, Composition

Yuzuru Kashiwabara - Bass, Chorus

Kinichi Motegi - Drums, Chorus

Guests

Honzi - Keyboard, Violin, Chorus

Shinya Kogure - Guitar, Chorus

Sugar Yoshinaga - Guitar (on 3. Slow Days)

Tadashi Ueda - Piano (on 7. Subarashikute Nice Choice)

Mixing and other

ZAK - Producer, Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer, Programming

Tak - Recording Engineer

Phonic - Design, Art Direction

Mariko Yamamoto - Design, Art Direction

Moog Yamamoto - Design, Art Direction, Photography

Tohru Kotetsu - Cutting Engineer

Tsutomo Okada - Assistant Engineer

Kazuo Saimoto - assistant Engineer

Yuka Koizumi - mastering Engineer

Toshiya Sano - A&R

Masaki Morimoto - A&R

Naoko Nozawa - Artist Promotion

Shuji Kudoh - Artist Promotion

Ichiro Asatsuma - Executive Producer

Yoshiyuki Okuda - Executive Producer

Tadataka Watanabe - Executive Producer

Kokoro Moriguchi - Management Staff

Akiko Ueta - Management Staff

Mitsuteru Takasugi - Equipment

Takeshi Umezawa - Equipment

Pardon Kimura - Interior Coordination of Hawaii Studio (Wakiki Beach)

Ayako Mogi - Photography

Keiji Ito - Graffiti

Friends - Photography

Charts

References

1. Simpson, Paul. "Fishmans - Biography & History". AllMusic. AllMusic, Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
2. "▼フィッシュマンズ／東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ 茂木欣一さん×OSAJI ブランドディレクター 茂田正和｜SPECIAL CROSS TALK". OSAJI JOURNAL | 公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-05. It was also around the time that I started recording in a private studio, so I think it was also a big factor that I was given an environment where I could be endlessly absorbed in music.
3. "▼フィッシュマンズ／東京スカパラダイスオーケストラ 茂木欣一さん×OSAJI ブランドディレクター 茂田正和｜SPECIAL CROSS TALK". OSAJI JOURNAL | 公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-09-05. The background to that time was that we had made an album called "Kuuchuu Camp"* before "LONG SEASON", and all the members and staff felt that the album was a success. It was about 45 minutes long with 8 songs, but the album felt like a single story. So when we were all chatting casually, we started talking about how it would be fun to make a song that never ends, and that's where it all began.
4. "Discogs".
5. "空中キャンプ | フィッシュマンズ". ORICON NEWS. Retrieved 2024-09-05.

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