Coyote

Music, words, arrangements, programming and production by Susumu Hirasawa. Originally written for the P-Model album Monster, "Coyote" is a Western-style song, following on One Pattern's "Astro Notes".

Versions
P-Model recorded this song on their single day of studio recording for the album. This version has never been released; in the joint Teruo Nakano/Yoshikazu Takahashi interview on the Music Industrial Wastes book, Nakano wonders if the song was sent to Alfa Records at all. Live performance by P-Model, done at a faster tempo than other versions. Has an unique bridge, and a spoken segment that happens over the second-to-last repeat of the chorus. The bridge is reworked as carnivalesque "winding up" segment, which is also played as the intro of the song. On the last repeat of the chorus, the arrangement gradually thinnens, from full band to just backing vocals with guitar and drums, to guitar and cymbals, to just cymbals. Over the last two iterations of the chorus, wind ambience surges up, segueing the song into the next track, "Dune".
 * Monster, 1987
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Yasuhiro Araki - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Teruo Nakano - bass, backing vocals
 * Yoshikazu Takahashi - systems, backing vocals
 * The Physical Atlas of Three Worlds, 1988
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Sadatoshi Tainkana - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Teruo Nakano - bass, backing vocals
 * Hikaru Kotobuki - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Water in Time and Space, 1989
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, all instruments
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic drums, percussion
 * Keralino Sandorovich - coyote voice, backing vocals
 * Kazuhide Akimoto, Michäel Saturnus - backing vocals
 * Error CD, 1990
 * Susumu Hirasawa - vocals, guitar
 * Hikaru Kotobuki, Kazuhide Akimoto - keyboards, backing vocals
 * Katsuhiko Akiyama - bass, backing vocals
 * Kazutoki Umezu - wind synthesizer
 * Shingo Tomoda - drums, electronic percussion
 * Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Nurse - strings, horns

Connections

 * The guitar riff of the song first appeared on a commercial jingle for Teijin's Wow store in Chuo, Osaka (released on the Model House Works tape included with the first volume of the "Moire Club" newsletter). The riff was reused for a country-style arrangement of "Boat" (a snippet of which was included in Bitmap 1979-1992) some years later, from which "Coyote" developed.