Just for Fun...The J-C AI Gallery -- Kiyomi, Ruiko & Mieko

 

Kiyomi Suzuki with Rats & Star -- Lonely Chaplin (ロンリー・チャプリン）

Ruiko Kurahashi -- Last Scene ni Ai wo Komete （ラストシーンに愛をこめて）

Mieko Nishijima -- Gin Lime （ジンライム）

Nash Music Library -- Miracle Tenshi Magical Q（ミラクル天使 マジカルQ）

 

I couldn't quite believe that this scene had been cut out of the DC movie "Justice League". I mean, it has one of the coolest examples of how the Flash can save people, and the effects here are better than a lot of what I saw in in his own movie back in 2023. 

Now, if there had been a Japanese version of "The Flash" done for laughs, I could have recommended this ditty from Nash Music Library, "Miracle Tenshi Magical Q" (Miracle Angel, Magical Q), as an appropriately speedy background tune with a circus-like atmosphere for Barry Allen. It could have accompanied a typical rush job at going shopping for example.

Still, "Miracle Tenshi Magical Q" was part of the August 2011 album by NML, "Moe Moe Cute Pop"（萌え萌え Cute Pop）, so I gather that the song was more in line with a maid café rather than a day in the life of DC's fastest superhero. I certainly couldn't have imagined that this BGM would have been included in the typical "Weathernews Live" broadcast. It would have been too distracting and exhausting for the weather folks there, although I believe that at least one brief excerpt from the song has been used.

Tsukasa Ito -- Yokohama Meruhen（横浜メルヘン）

 

That's a nice photo of a street leading up to the tall Landmark Tower in Yokohama during the spring. I think that there are places in both Canada and Japan (including Toronto) that are just aching for some of that warm weather and cherry blossoms right now after a very wintry season. Simply think good thoughts for a few more weeks.

Plus, you can give Tsukasa Ito's（伊藤つかさ）5th single from November 1982, "Yokohama Meruhen" (Yokohama Fairy Tale), a spin on the record player or CD device. For a single coming out rather late in the year, it's got quite the spring bounce and there's very much of an Agnes Chan-like high-toned vocal coming out of Ito's mouth. Ryo Kawakami's（川上了）arrangement gives quite the 80s aidoru impression with the sliding strings and the twinkly keyboards. Singer-songwriter Mayo Shouno（庄野真代）took care of the lyrics while Masami Koizumi（小泉まさみ）was the composer.

Nostalgic New Town -- Seaside Breeze

 

It was one of the rare days yesterday (even rarer that it was the first day of the month!) that I didn't post anything on "Kayo Kyoku Plus", and that's because I was out noshing all day on March 1st. I met up with my old friend of thirty years+ standing and enjoyed a sumptuous lunch at Grazie, my favourite Italian restaurant. My main dish was the Prato (most likely named after the area in Tuscany) which had grilled and shredded chicken on top of pasta in a tomato sauce. 

Then, some hours later, I met up with KKP contributor Larry Chan for dinner at Kingyo where the staff showed off a new set called the Kingyo Gozen including a mini-udon with gobo tempura. Very hearty and tasty. Of course, the fates got their revenge on me for engorging myself so much by temporarily cancelling my bus home last night due to a police investigation at the originating subway station, so I ended up walking twenty minutes up and down the pavement home in sub-zero weather. But all of that shivering and walking helped in shedding several hundred calories.

Anyways, I gotta catch up on my quota since I missed out on March 1st, and considering my meals out yesterday, I'm going to start off with something nice and sunny and mild in the hopes that patio weather will soon return to the GTA. I have here Nostalgic New Town which I first introduced back on February 1st with their ski-friendly "Mafuyu no Winter Love"（真冬のWinterLove）from 2023, a song so much in love with the Queen of Winters, Kohmi Hirose（広瀬香美）, that I wouldn't be surprised if the songbird had sent her congratulations.

Well, Nostalgic New Town's debut in 2022 was the much more seasonally different "Seaside Breeze" which brings out images of summer walks, blue skies and bright sun. I think that's vocalist connie helping out here as well. Some very nice groove striding along the beach. So far, that's been it for the output by NNT thus far, unless someone's got some insight to new tunes by the group.