Some of you may remember that Author's Picks article I did on some of those Camellia Diamonds commercial songs including Kahoru Kohiruimaki（小比類巻かほる）and Masayuki Suzuki（鈴木雅之）. They were some of the classier stuff that I've covered.
Well, I recently discovered that there was another song that deserved to be on the Camellia Diamonds list, and that was Tomoko Aran's（亜蘭知子）"Everything". A track on the singer-songwriter's 9th studio album "Sunny Side Memories" from April 1990, it was written by her and composed by Seiichiro Kuribayashi（栗林誠一郎）as this fairly dramatic number with a soupcon of Latin. Admittedly, it kinda hovers over the City Pop/pop borderline but I couldn't help but get some of those metropolitan music vibes from this one., and to be honest, I think "Everything" could have even become an ending theme for some romantic drama or cop show. But hey, diamonds are good, too!
Yesterday, I was speaking with KKP friend, JTM, and I noticed that there was a very Mariya Takeuchi-esque（竹内まりや）poster hanging on his wall. My curiosity piqued, I asked him what it was all about and he told me that he found it at this site called Displate which specializes in metal posters, and apparently there is a City Pop section so for all of you fans out there, you can check it out.
This post really piqued my interest this morning when I saw Kahoru Kohiruimaki’s name in bold! And, I did not leave disappointed after reading the post about Tomoko Aran's Everything; in fact, it only made me more curious about the today's track. Speaking of Mariya Takeuchi-esque, this song does sound just a little bit and I mean a little bit like somethign Mariya herself could have sung.
ReplyDeleteWhen I played the Camellia CM above, I did notice that Aran even sounded a bit like Mariya.
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