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Thursday, January 9, 2020

frasco -- Honno Sukoshi no Ai ga Areba(ほんの少しの愛があれば)


Taking a shine to band frasco's brand of breezy pop through their 1996 song "Kaze ni Notte ~ breeze"(風に乗って)because of its inclusion in the "Light Mellow" compilation series, I was happy to find out that it wasn't the only frasco tune out there on YouTube.

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I did find this one "Honno Sukoshi no Ai ga Areba" (As Long As There's A Smidgen of Love) from frasco's first album "frasco" released in July 1994. Once again, it's got that refreshing breeziness thanks to lyricist Sakiko Masano's(政野早希子)vocals, and I'm assuming as was the case with "Kaze ni Notte", guitarist Hiroshi Narumi(鳴海寛)and drummer Makio Tada(多田牧男)tackled the melody and arrangement (love the warm sax, by the way). Hopefully, it's just the song to help blow away some of the cold out there today.

Incidentally, although frasco doesn't have any representation on J-Wiki, the online encyclopedia does list another band called Frasco (capital F) that started up in 2015 with a totally different lineup and perhaps a different sound (just heard one of their songs). There's nothing in the J-Wiki article hinting at any association between the two bands but I would like to cover that one song by Frasco that I've heard so far.

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like an early Pizzicato Five track with a swingy version of the bassline of Tighten Up.

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  2. Hi, Zazoo! Good to hear from you again. Yeah, now that I listened to it again, that bassline does sound like it came from "Tighten Up" by Archie Bell. Strangely enough, "Kaze ni Notte" sounds somewhat like The Ames Brothers' version of "Moonglow".

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