It's indeed May 1st 2025 although the shot above is of a time three years past. I was looking to see if I could find any other May-themed kayo kyoku but the effort failed.
However, since we are in May now, we have said goodbye to April. And strangely enough, there is a song in the KKP backlog by a group called GOOD BYE APRIL. A pop band that first coalesced in 2011, they did their live house rounds and were actually supposed to have debuted with an official major single in 2014 but the acquisition of their record company at the time put the kibosh on that, unfortunately. Still, throughout the 2010s, they were able to put out four indies singles and a couple of albums. That first major single, "Brand New Memory", finally premiered in 2023 under the aegis of Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）.
Before that, though, GOOD BYE APRIL had released their fourth album "swing in the dark" in January 2022 with one track being "missing summer". Launching very jauntily from the start with a feeling of anticipation, I noticed that vocalist and songwriter Sho Kurashina（倉品翔）had fashioned a very summery Toshiki Kadomatsu（角松敏生）City Pop sort of tune and the singer himself sounds quite a bit like the legendary impresario of 80s Japanese Urban Contemporary. Lots of nice banging keyboards and wailing electric guitars. It may be early but perhaps summer is just around the corner...hopefully.
Besides Kurashina on guitar and keyboards, there is guitarist Takashi Yoshida（吉田卓史）, bassist Ayane Enmoto（延本文音）and drummer Tsunoken（つのけん）. They just released their latest single and album late last year.
This is really good! This music does a really decent job at imitating music from the late 70's and 80's.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was really struck at how Kadomatsu the song sounded.
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