Happy Monday! We're finally getting something resembling summer here in the Greater Toronto Area, but I think it'll still take some time before the gleaming days and the warm temperatures hit the city for the next few months.
The second-best thing next to getting to hear a new amazing bird single is being able to hear a past bird single that I'd never heard before. When the above video popped up on her official YouTube channel last year, I'd assumed that it was something new from the singer-songwriter when it was actually the video for her third single all the way back from August 1999, just some months following her splendid debut of "Souls".
Yup, I confess...I'd not heard of "Kimi no Oto ga Kikoeru Basho e" (To The Place Where I Can Hear Your Voice) although in my defense, I have heard a lot of bird's other wonderful tunes. It may not make me the most dedicated of bird fans, but here in 2025, I can once again enjoy the lovely notes and chords of a bird song for the first time. Written by the singer and composed by Shinichi Osawa（大沢伸一）, aka Mondo Grosso, I love those determined and groovy piano chords which anchor the 1970s jazzy soul feeling of the melody, as bird herself seems to be in her own blissful world while everyone else is tripping the light fantastic on the dance floor. The song reached No. 76 on Oricon.
You know although this isn't my favorite genre this song is pretty cool! It is very soulful and the instruments that were selected for this are spot on in my opinion. I think this classifies as 'Japanese soul-jazz' I do not know if there is such a genre, but if there is then this song fits.
ReplyDeleteBird's music has often been categorized as "club music" but this particular one can lie solidly in the soul-jazz genre.
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