Happy Easter! I posted up the latest Yutaka Kimura Speaks a couple of days ago, and it was about singer-songwriter and musician Shigeru Suzuki（鈴木茂）. In doing so, I was able to listen to what I am realizing is one of the seminal albums for City Pop and New Music, his "Lagoon" from 1976.
I've already posted on a couple of tracks from "Lagoon": the charming "Lady Pink Panther" and the jazzy "Hachibu Onpu no Uta"（８分音符の詩）, but seeing that this is Easter, I've decided to take a riff on the holiday's official animal, and post yet another track from the album called "Hashire Rabbit" (Run Rabbit). Of course, this has nothing to do with Miharu Koshi's（コシミハル）1985 "Hashire Usagi" （走れウサギ）though the translation is the same.
"Hashire Rabbit" was written by his old Happy End bandmate Takashi Matsumoto（松本隆）and composed by Suzuki as this very welcoming Caribbean tune that greets you as you disembark from the cruise ship. Apparently on this island of rabbits, it's all about the jazz, the tropical and the dancing/hopping around. Enjoy the rum punch!🍹
Yes, yes, yes another 1976 hit! That was a year I that I still thinks gets overlooked on music shows for whatever reason.You are right about this one it is tropical and jazzy at the same time! It is also mellow and smooth.
ReplyDeleteWell, hopefully, KKP will be the one that reveals 1976 as one of the best years in music! :)
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