S-KEN -- Living Tricks

 

Well, over the past several weeks, I've been mentioning about the well-traveled engineer, musician and performer Tadashi Tanaka（田中唯士）regarding his time in the early 70s folk group Peace City（ピース・シティー） and then as an influence in Japanese punk and post-punk.

I've boomeranged back to his early 80s as a New Wave sort of guy under the name of S-KEN. The first time I mentioned him was via his single "Saku Saku"（サク・サク）which was also a track from his 1981 album "Mato"（魔都...Bad Metropolis）. Going back to "Mato", here is another song "Living Tricks" which was written and composed by S-KEN with further composition credits going to Mitsuwa. I couldn't find out who was baby-ishly singing alongside him but perhaps it was Mitsuwa. Regardless, "Living Tricks" is an amiable New Wave sock-hopper on the floor...once again with that feeling of a milder Plastics vibe.