Ruiko Kurahashi -- Kiseki（軌跡）

 

I can always rely on singer Ruiko Kurahashi（倉橋ルイ子）to provide something nice and soothing in the evening. As I've mentioned in its own special article, Kurahashi is one representative of that Japanese pop sub-genre that has been called Fashion Music or perhaps baroque pop in the West.

Found another example of this via Kurahashi's October 1984 album "RUIKO". The track here is "Kiseki" (One's Path) and it was written and composed by none other than Taeko Ohnuki（大貫妙子）. It is indeed very elegant but it doesn't sound like an Ohnuki song of that time period at all; it meshes perfectly with the type of music that Ruiko was singing all throughout the decade: soft, classy and rather melancholy. Motoki Funayama（船山基紀）was responsible for the arrangement.

It's not all that easy to find a great variety of her songs online so when I do track down something like "Kiseki", it's always a joy to behold.