One Step Communicate -- True Paradise

 

I was pretty impressed by the band One Step Communicate which was introduced by KKP's HRLE92 back in February so that I also covered them through a later contribution by the group to the anime franchise "Shinpi no Sekai El-Hazard"（神秘の世界エルハザード...The Magnificent World of El-Hazard）. As the author mentioned, every track on "One Step Communicate" is a banger.

Now I want to return to that original self-titled 1994 album where I had my socks knocked off by the first track. "True Paradise" has got panache, soul and class as a 1990s form of City Pop with the high-falutin' vocals of Kenichi Nakagawa（中川顕一）, the snazzy horn-spiced melody by guitarist Hiroyuki Yano（矢野弘佳）and some nice background chorus. It's indeed the type of song that I would like to hear while walking down one of the main streets of Tokyo on a gorgeous clear night. Ren Takayanagi（高柳恋）was responsible for the lyrics.