I wasn't sure whether I would be putting up another Akina Nakamori（中森明菜）post this year as an addition to "Shiroi Labyrinth"（白い迷い）and "Kagami no Naka no J"（鏡の中のJ）, but then I found this oldie but goodie a few days ago.
"Non-fiction Ecstasy" is Akina's November 1986 single and true to my faltering memory, I had been wondering this was a track on her "CD '87" album that I forgot to mention in that July 2013 post. Well, that certainly wasn't the case and the reason that I am rather emphatic about that is that "Non-fiction Ecstasy" was only initially available as a cassette single with the main song and its karaoke version on Side A while Side B had karaoke versions of a couple of songs which would eventually get onto "CD '87". In fact, the first album that it finally got onto was the singer's "BEST II" compilation from December 1988...which I have as a cassette tape as well, although I won't play it on my tape recorder that I've dubbed Jaws.
The single's cover has a mighty good hint as to what the song sounds like. Looking like a very inviting and a slightly adorably goofy cabaret singer, Akina is basically offering herself as a very congenial host for the evening surrounded by a techno jazz arrangement. Considering the general sound of her singles in the late 1980s, I have mused whether Akina felt that she should have been born up to half a century earlier.
Arranged by Kazuo Shiina（椎名和夫）, the No. 1-reaching "Non-fiction Ecstasy" was written and composed by singer-songwriter Kazuko Sakata（坂田和子）. I'd never heard of her before but according to her J-Wiki profile and her own website, she had been creating songs since her student days before providing her songs to a wide variety of other singers though not particularly focusing on any one artist. Sakata did release one CD of her own titled "Lullaby" in 1991.
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