Yuki Matsuura -- invisible circle

 

Singer-songwriter Yuki Matsuura's（松浦有希）"Kayo Kyoku Plus" file has existed since 2013 when Marcos V. first wrote about a song that she had penned for singer and seiyuu Megumi Hayashibara (林原 めぐみ), "Forever Dreamer" from 1995. Come to think of it, she's come up with a number of songs for seiyuu and anime such as "Watashirashiku"（私らしく）that had originally been recorded by Houko Kuwashima（桑島法子）and then covered by Matsuura.

However, the Tokyo-born singer isn't just focused on anison. She's had her own crop of pop songs without any attachment to anime and one example is the title song from her June 1999 4th album "invisible circle". Writing, composing and arranging everything for this one, "invisible circle" seems to possess the groove from two generations: the one of 80s soul and perhaps even one of 50s or 60s beatnik jazz. If my first Matsuura song had been this one, I wouldn't have imagined that she was the frequent song creator for many an anime.

I've yet to write very much on Matsuura herself, so just to finish things up here, I can say that her father is saxophonist Yasunobu Matsuura（松浦ヤスノブ）. After dropping out of Baika Women's University in Tokyo in 1987, her first composition was "Lavender Monogatari"（ラベンダー物語...Lavender Story） for aidoru Emi Fukunaga（福永恵規）and then her debut as a singer came in 1990 with the single "Taikutsu wo Taberu Baku"（たいくつをたべるバク...Boredom-Eating Tapir）. Matsuura has also been in duos with her first one being Liaison in 1996 with composer/arranger Kiyoshi Yoshida（吉田潔） and then in 2003, she joined seiyuu Masayo Kurata（倉田雅世） to form Yukikura（ユキクラ）.