Various - Paisà Got Soul (Soul, AOR & Disco In Italy 1977-1986) Artist_Virgin Insanity Takuro Okada

Takuro Okada

The album is considered one of the most recognisable concept albums

This recording offers a place of reflection and healing amongst an ever imposing and disposable pop culture

but I really hoped this record would have a more immediate emotional resonance and aimed to focus as much on the sound and meaning of the words as I did on the tone and texture of the music

and drummer Billy Higgins

Various - Paisà Got Soul (Soul, AOR & Disco In Italy 1977-1986) Artist_Virgin Insanity Takuro OkadaBetween the late 70s and the early 80s, pop music was in a transitional phase. After a return to the roots of punk, rock was morphing into new wave, while disco was rapidly declining and the electronic revolution, already on the rise, was ushering in the transition from analog to digital. This period also saw the emergence and relatively brief flowering of a commercially dominant style that mixed soul influences (especially Stevie Wonder and Ear th