Kan Sano -- My Girl

 

My recent strolls through the park of YouTube led me to keyboardist, singer-songwriter and track maker Kan Sano who hails from Hyogo Prefecture. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in New York City where he majored in jazz composition through piano, he's worked with singers and bands such as Sing Like Talking, UA and Chara. Up to this point, he's released six albums and twelve singles.

One album that he's released is "Ghost Notes" from May 2019 and the track here is "My Girl" which begins with a funky trumpet followed by some groovy Fender Rhodes. As well, Sano has a voice with grains in it but it isn't sandpapery; instead it feels like a comfortable shower loofah. It's all meant to sound very cool and clubby and the melody line sounds like something from the 1970s when Stevie Wonder was coming out with some of those legendary albums.

The video was also nice enough to point out the lass in the video. She is model Nanami represented by talent agency Asobisystem（アソビシステム）; the company also represents the song-and-dance group Atarashii Gakko no Leaders（新しい学校のリーダーズ）.