98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare explained

98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare
Type:live
Artist:Fishmans
Cover:98.12.28 男達の別れ Album Art.jpg
Released:September 29, 1999[1]
Recorded:December 28, 1998
Venue:Akasaka Blitz
Genre:Dream pop[2]
Length:132:37
Label:Polydor
Prev Title:8 Tsuki no Genjō
Prev Year:1998

is the third and final live album by Japanese dub band Fishmans. It documents the band's final live performance with frontman Shinji Sato. The show was recorded and filmed at Akasaka Blitz on December 28, 1998, and was first released on September 29, 1999, by Polydor Records in Japan. The album title roughly translates to "A Farewell of Men: December 28th, 1998", a reference to the tour name, and to bassist Yuzuru Kashiwabara's departure from the band and the end of the band's three-piece era. The performance was released on DVD under the name Otokotachi no Wakare 98.12.28 @ Akasaka Blitz (男達の別れ 98.12.28 @赤坂Blitz) in 2005.

Background

On December 28, 1998, the last day of the Otokotachi no Wakare tour, Fishmans would perform their final concert at Akasaka Blitz. While initially intended as a farewell to bassist Yuzuru Kashiwabara, who was departing from the band, it ultimately served as a farewell to frontman Shinji Sato and to Fishmans as a whole, as Sato suddenly died within months, more or less ending the band as they did not release any new music and only performed reunion shows from then on.

Performance

Fishmans performed a multitude of their most beloved songs and singles, including "Hikōki", "Ikareta Baby", "Night Cruising", "Melody", "Walking in the Rhythm", and "Yurameki in the Air". As a finale, they played an extended adaptation of the entirety of their sixth studio album Long Season. The concert encapsulated the band's progression stylistically from music heavily influenced by reggae and dub, to dream pop and neo-psychedelia at the end of their career.

Reception

In a review for The Michigan Daily, Sayan Ghosh wrote the album is "a triumph", specifically praising Sato's powerful and passionate voice and the embellishments on "Long Season" that "add new dimensions to the music".[3]

Personnel

Fishmans

Supporting guest musicians

Technical personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/fishmans/98_12_28_%E7%94%B7%E9%81%94%E3%81%AE%E5%88%A5%E3%82%8C__98_12_28_otokotachi_no_wakare_.p/ Rateyourmusic 98.12.28 男達の別れ album page
  2. Web site: Sayan. Ghosh. Sayan Ghosh: Fishman's '98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare'. . February 18, 2018 . January 8, 2023.
  3. Web site: Ghosh . Sayan . Sayan Ghosh: Fishman's '98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare' . The Michigan Daily . 18 February 2018 . University of Michigan . 15 December 2020.

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