{"id":11731,"date":"2026-06-16T05:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:52:21","slug":"japan-obscure-alternatives-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/japan-obscure-alternatives-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan \u2013 Obscure Alternatives \u2013 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/japanobscure-alternatives-e1781603506833.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11732\" \/>L\u2019\u00c9volution Alternative selon Sinistros #128<br \/>\nJapan \u2013 Obscure Alternatives \u2013 1978<br \/>\nAngleterre<\/p>\n<p>M\u00eame si le premier album de Japan n\u2019avait aucunement connu le succ\u00e8s qu\u2019il m\u00e9ritait, cela n\u2019avait pas emp\u00each\u00e9 ses membres \u00e0 pers\u00e9v\u00e9rer et \u00e0 continuer leur aventure.  Men\u00e9 par David Sylvian, Japan deveidnra rapidement un puissant influenceur de son \u00e9poque en r\u00e9volutionnant la musique New Wave et N\u00e9o Romantique inspirant m\u00eame directement Duran Duran.  Obscure Alternatives avait \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9 en dix jours et \u00e9tait musicalement plus orient\u00e9 vers le Rock malgr\u00e9 des incursions dans des styles provenant parfois du Reggae et du Punk, ce qui ind\u00e9niablement donnera des id\u00e9es \u00e0 d\u2019autres artistes \u00e0 explorer davantage certaines sonorit\u00e9s qui seront plus tard reprises dans la musique New Wave et dans le Post Punk.  Ce deuxi\u00e8me album sera \u00e9galement un \u00e9chec commercial et Japan sera une fois de plus rel\u00e9gu\u00e9 au statut de groupe \u00ab underground \u00bb.  Comme je l\u2019ai souvent r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9, ce sont les artistes \u00ab underground \u00bb et non-standards qui ont forg\u00e9 la musique plus int\u00e9ressante et Japan le prouvait \u00e0 merveille avec Obscure Alternatives qui ouvrira la voie au d\u00e9veloppement de plusieurs sous branches de la musique Alternative.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pYz9ufVEYK0?si=xbdFe4V0Wa9cUYgR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019\u00c9volution Alternative selon Sinistros #128 Japan \u2013 Obscure Alternatives \u2013 1978 Angleterre M\u00eame si le premier album de Japan n\u2019avait aucunement connu le succ\u00e8s qu\u2019il m\u00e9ritait, cela n\u2019avait pas emp\u00each\u00e9 ses membres \u00e0 pers\u00e9v\u00e9rer et \u00e0 continuer leur aventure. Men\u00e9 par David Sylvian, Japan deveidnra rapidement un puissant influenceur de son \u00e9poque en r\u00e9volutionnant la &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/japan-obscure-alternatives-1978\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan \u2013 Obscure Alternatives \u2013 1978<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[901],"tags":[936],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-levolution-alternative","tag-japan-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11733,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hurlemort.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}