I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Hiroaki Igarashi -- Twilight Bossa（トワイライト・ボッサ）
Monday night...the evening to get over the first day of the work week, and perhaps the toughest night next to Wednesday (Hump Day) to salve those existential blues.
Well, allow me to help out a bit with this short and sweet article. This is based on Hiroaki Igarashi's（五十嵐浩晃）song "Twilight Bossa" from his 5th album"Soyokaze no Koro"（そよ風の頃－SEASON OF BREEZE－）which came out in May 1983. As the title says, it's some nice light Latin to have that first drink of the week with. Igarashi's brand of soothing AOR was written by the singer and Shun Taguchi（田口俊）with Igarashi taking care of the music.
Strangely enough, with all of the City Pop/AOR albums that I've been purchasing over the years, I've yet to get an Igarashi album. Something to mull about as the year starts winding down. Of course, this would be dependent on how that Canada Post strike goes.
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