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About a week ago, I noted that "Uta Con"（うたコン）was going to have a tribute to composer Kyohei Tsutsumi（筒美京平）who had passed away nearly three years ago. As such, I posted the debut single for Natsumi Shimai（夏海姉妹）, "Hotel Sabaku"（ホテル砂漠）which wasn't only released for the first time last month but it gained life as a long-gestating product of the golden combination of Tsutsumi and lyricist Jun Hashimoto（橋本淳）.
Well, tonight, the tribute to Tsutsumi did happen on "Uta Con", so there were the cover performances of his timeless creations such as Judy Ongg's "Miserarete"（魅せられて）and Ayumi Ishida's（いしだあゆみ）"Blue Light Yokohama" （ブルーライト・ヨコハマ）. However, there was the revelation of a previously unrecorded song by Tsutsumi and Hashimoto, but it wasn't "Hotel Sabaku" which may have been a little too raunchy for the show.
Instead, we got a duet by veteran singer Miki Hirayama（平山みき）and Pizzicato Five's Maki Nomiya（野宮真貴）titled "Artist". It was released just today and in contrast with the stripperific Natsumi Shimai song, this one is a lot more palsy-walsy with Hirayama and Nomiya acting like good ol' buddies getting together for an old-fashioned pop tune with enriched beats for some reason. In fact, I'd say that there is a certain senpai-kohai relationship between the two.
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