Shigeru Suzuki, among the Happy End/Tin Pan Alley family, is the musician closest to refined music that includes bossa nova, easy listening, jazz and AOR. What can't be definitely ignored is how his solo albums beginning from "Lagoon" (1976) have influenced artists from the 1980s onwards such as Kazuhito Murata（村田和人）and Toshiki Kadomatsu（角松敏生）. For City Pop fans, the projects that he was involved in as a sound producer including Sumiko Yamagata's（やまがたすみこ）"Flying" and Makoto Iwabuchi's（岩渕まこと）"Super Moon" have to be checked out.
The above comes from "Disc Collection Japanese City Pop Revised" (2020).
Very interesting! The video does show up or play on the blog in fact I get a message telling me that NIPPON CROWN CO., LTD., has blocked my viewing of the video but if I click the "watch on Youtube" it takes me to Youtube where I can watch and listen to to the Lagoon 1979 video.
ReplyDeleteOver the years of doing the blog, I've been getting a variety of messages why a video doesn't appear on the blog ranging from the terse "Video no longer available" to the longer "This video contains content...watch on YouTube". Recently, the Tatsuro Yamashita and Hiromi Iwasaki videos have been getting the "search-and-destroy" orders once more.
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