Not to say that singer-songwriter Seishiro Kusunose's（楠瀬誠志郎）"Elevator Town" sounds anything like Go West's "Call Me" but they do have that smash-and-grab drumming in common, and I'm a big fan of "Call Me", and so I'm also a fan of "Elevator Town".
"Elevator Town" is a track on Kusunose's 2nd album "Boukensha-tachi"（冒険者たち...The Adventurers） from April 1987 and it starts with that drumming before some synthesizer jazz rhythms and some real brass come ramming down the headphones with the energy of Duke Ellington's band. I don't really have any idea what Ryo Koizumi's（小泉亮）lyrics are on about, but Kusunose's melody and Akira Inoue's（井上鑑） arrangement bring back some of those Zoot Suit days and nights into contemporary West Shinjuku.
Hello J-Canuck,
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Hi, Chasing Showa. Although that Zoot Suit comment was more on describing some of Kusunose's jazzy melody in my designated area of City Pop in Tokyo, come to think of it, that time period was either the time or close to it when the young guys were putting on shiny suits with those wide shoulders...just like Zoot Suits.
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