Tokimeki Records feat. Hannah Warm -- Love Trip

 

Ahhh...I remember when I had finally gotten my copy of the 1982 "Love Trip" by the mysterious Takako Mamiya（間宮貴子）years ago before the City Pop boom exploded beyond Japan's borders in the late 2010s. Whatever the singer's motivations were for pulling the quick disappearing act following the album's release, it ended up being quite the coup. She pulled off what any entertainer loves to do...left the stage with the audience wanting more. "Love Trip" was and remains one of the pillars of City Pop albums and folks have been left fantasizing about what she could have done with a second album.

Well, as they say, que sera, sera. However, 42 years later, the good folks at Tokimeki Records have once again tackled a classic City Pop song, in this case, the title track from Mamiya's one-and-only album and given it a new sheen. For the first few articles on this music unit, it was vocalist Hikari（ひかり）at the helm, but for the cover of "Love Trip", we give you Hannah Warm. 

Making its presence known in August of this year, Warm gives us a close resemblance to the relaxing tones of Mamiya while the arrangement here has a bit more synth and Caribbean cruise tropical. Of course, the creators of "Love Trip" remain lyricist Etsuko Kisugi（来生えつこ）and composer Kazuo Shiina（椎名和夫）.