Chakra -- Mada（まだ）

Back at the beginning of the year, I wrote about this song that I had discovered on YouTube called "Myun Myun", the weirdly attractive ditty by technopop/New Wave duo Chakra（チャクラ）from the 1980s. It looks like the song has gotten some traction from the YouTubers, even on Van Paugam's City Pop radio. It has dug in like a Ceti Alpha eel.

Then today, I came across this track from Chakra's last album from 1983, "Nanyo de Yoisho"（南洋でヨイショ...Heave Ho on the South Seas）. Titled "Mada" (Not Yet), it hooked me instantly since it sounded like a mix of technopop and whimsy and New Wave that could have been up either Akiko Yano's（矢野顕子）or Taeko Ohnuki's（大貫妙子）alley at the time. Guitarist Bun Itakura（板倉文）came up with the song while pleasantly plaintive vocalist Mishio Ogawa（小川美潮）wrote the lyrics. Always nice to encounter any new techno kayo.