I've come to realize that whenever I listen to an Akiko Kobayashi（小林明子）song, whether it's something for herself or a tune that she's penned for others, there will often (but not always) be a dreamy wistfulness to the arrangement. It's one reason that I've often associated her with the late Karen Carpenter.
I get that Kobayashi-ness when I listen to the song that she provided singer-songwriter Mami Ayukawa（鮎川麻弥）. "Gin no Tekagami" (Silver Hand Mirror) is a track from her June 1986 4th album "Face". Ayukawa and Kobayashi don't sound anything alike, but the use of English, the near-operatic trail-offs of the vocals and that wistfulness I mentioned above are all there. I'm wondering whether Kobayashi herself had done a cover version of this.
KING RECORD block this content from display on this blog so I had to go to Youtube to watch it as when I did I found that the album or single cover for this song surprises me. I usually imagine album covers from the 1980s to be sharp without any blurriness other than maybe the background bokeh. As for the song it is very dreamy and maybe a little broody.
ReplyDeleteHello, Brian. I get the blockages a lot as well. However, as long as I can still see and hear the video, I don't mind the extra click of the button.
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