Kimono-ver To My House

March 18, 2009, 7:59 pm
Filed under: 1995-1996 A Happy Pocket | Tags: CD, Hard-to-Find, Import, Music, Trashcan Sinatras

Very rare ‘A Happy Pocket’ CD from Japan.

The Japanese approach to CD packaging is elaborate and sometimes excessive – but you do get your money’s worth. This CD includes the famous ‘obi-strip’. The term is derived from the name of the piece of wide fabric – the obi – that a geisha woman would wear around her waist over the traditional Kimono dress (you learn something every day).

On the CD itself, it is marked ‘sample’ – which seems to be quite common in Japan – although this is not a promo. This release includes a fold-out lyric booklet which is printed in the ~kana script – which are syllabic Japanese scripts commonly used to write words of foreign origin.

ahp_jap_01 ahp_jap_04 ahp_jap_05 ahp_jap_06 ahp_jap_02 ahp_jap_07 ahp_jap_081 ahp_jap_031 1996 Polydor Records POCD-1223 (Japan)