Ghibli - I'm Looking For You Album

This is a very good repress with great, clear sound quality and range.I'm Looking For You is a very unique and dark piece of Italo-Disco (And this is using the term "Italo-Disco" quite loosely because the instrumental version could quite possibly be labeled as something else). Personally, the darker Italo stuff is generally my preference when it comes to the genre. The instrumentals are both very aggressive and hypnotic in their driving consistency and Alberto Garbelli has some very strange and drawn-out, but effective vocals. I can see them not being everyone's cup of tea because of the kinda-sorta awkward way in which they fit into the song (a certain amount of Italo suffers from this from time to time when it feels like the vocals were recorded for something with a different style of instrumentals). I still love his voice though and certainly his whispering and the weird, ghostly female vocals (plus the more generic female vocals) do fit very well into the rest of the music. Oh and... that bassline and those bells... This and Three Of You (T.O.Y.) - Grace might have my favourite Italo basslines. I think if T.O.Y.'s material appeals to you, then this could potentially be right up your alley and visa versa if you don't yet know of T.O.Y., but do know this.And, as a response to what Garyvictor said: Weirdly enough, I think it actually IS a picture of Madigan, just facing opposite from the Ice Cold Love cover and with crazy static fuzz everywhere (perhaps to distinguish it apart better?). The reissue even comes with a little card inside featuring the exact picture from the Madigan record with a little bit of lyrical text on the backside. Then again, when you look at Alberto Garbelli (Ghibli) in other photos, he Does look very much and suspiciously so like Madigan in general (Yes, I am suggesting that Ghibli and Madigan may actually be the same person. If you watch other Alberto Garbelli videos on youtube, you can hear the similarities between his voice when singing in Italian and Madigan in English, despite the differences here with Ghibli having more of an accent and a more wild voice). This is definitely some strangely composed cover artwork (much like the music inside). To me the cover feels almost like it's showing the record off to be a perversion of classic Italo-Disco type music, with Madigan's reversed face and background covered in semi-obscuring grain and higher-contrasted eyes-to-face (that look a lot more like they are staring into your soul than Madigan on his record does for sure.) The glistening, jagged artist name text also helps to give it this quality.Anyway, yeah, awesome repress, buy it. It's a heck of a lot less expensive than the original and it comes with the little card insert and a cool bookmark with the Ghibli name from the cover on it. Cool new label design too using both texts from the cover. I would never really find it appropriate to call this record a classic piece of Italo-Disco despite it's Relative popularity, but if you are into this kind of thing (whatever that even means), this is a pretty huge one. That this single in general can now gain more attention from it's repress status is also a plus.

P.s. he kinda looks like madigan who does the song, "ice cold love" imo have a nice day.

Yes i'm the same artist the record company use my image without autorisation! All the best GHIBLI

People from and above the age of 40 may be able to understand more deeper the beauty of this record and for some with Dissociation & Polder blindness / Polderblindheid - spread love - love is sharing

I can't tell if this is a jab at the record calling it monotonous, or not...

Sounds like crap, I'm 25 and I own and love this record.

I love italo disco but, really I am not crazy about this one. I like the instrumental version, but something about his vocals I don't care for. I am not putting in down, it's just my opinion. And I surely would have never paid 250.00 bucks for the original vinyl.

All the voices are done by Ghibli (Alberto Garbelli) even the female and operatic ones.

The reissue sounds superb. Hats off to Dark Entries yet again!

Dark Entries doing god's work. I was just about to pay a fortune for the original!

Hi Dark friend! Thank you for your sensible taste! GHIBLI

Me too! I'll use the money for Clio Faces hahahah