One Pattern

One Pattern (stylized as ONE PATTERN) is a 1986 album by P-Model and the last before the band's "freezing" in 1988.

Background

After the end of the supporting tour for Karkador, P-Model was left without a bassist and a keyboardist; P-Model leader Susumu Hirasawa asked Teruo Nakano to join. In 1984, Nakano gave Hirasawa a demo tape of his work, impressed, Hirasawa got Nakano a job as a roadie, where Nakano worked as an instrument technician, equipment operator and driver. Nakano performed live twice, filling in the bass spot on a Scuba Tour show that then bassist Tadahiko Yokogawa was unable to come to and playing cymbal on Shun's only live show; he also did some creative collaborations, making a commercial jingle (released on a fanclub newsletter), performing on Shun 2nd and assisting in lyric writing of keyboardist Shunichi Miura's "D-SIDE". Hirasawa offered Nakano either spot, Nakano chose bass. Hirasawa then offered Yoshikazu Takahashi the remaining spot. Takahashi had handed Hirasawa a demo tape of his at the end of a live show. Hirasawa liked it, and Room, the underground band that Takahashi was the bassist and keyboardist of, got an opening act spot on the Scuba Tour; the offer to join P-Model came as Takahashi was going through a change of creative direction. With new members, P-Model took its sound to a new direction.